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Cobra Drive HD CDR 825E "Dash Cam" Demo & Review
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May 30, 2025
Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ reviews the new Cobra CDR-825E Dash Cam, part of its DriveHD series, and really likes it. Includes footage of him driving through Denver airport and talking about some great use cases for this surprisingly inexpensive device.
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I want to talk about the Cobra dash cam
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now they call their line the drive HD
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and they're really cool the idea is you
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have a little webcam essentially that is
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sitting and here mine's actually right
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just mounted right to the front
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windshield and it continuously records
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video footage of what's ahead of me now
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if I get into an accident they actually
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have sensors that it'll automatically
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protect the video footage that's within
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a few minutes of that accident so that's
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like a black box on an airplane that's
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pretty cool but in general it comes with
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an 8 gig card and it'll record an hour
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as a continuous loop so if I drive for 2
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hours my most recent hour of footage
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will be on the device so let's go ahead
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and look at me when I drove to the
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airport recently now as you can see at
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regular speed it's not very glamorous
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but it does get a little fun when you
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speed it up a little and add some
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dramatic music so let's do
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that I could certainly make it super
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fast but however you do it it's really
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interesting and it's definitely fun if
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you're driving through the mountains or
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you're driving into very heavy traffic
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um and there's more importantly there's
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safety elements and the idea that this
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can help you record if there's an
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accident or something or if there's
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dramatic footage by bad coincidental
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luck if you happen to be driving as an
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airplane crashes as recently happened in
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Taiwan here's a quick picture of that
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then obviously you can get that off your
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dash cam I don't really want to see
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something like that but the this is the
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CDR 825e let me go ahead and pop it off
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the
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windshield and you can see it here it's
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just a small unit and I'll turn it on so
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it has a battery power but it also
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actually can plug directly into your uh
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lighter and as you can see it has a nice
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little 2.7 in screen which is plenty big
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enough and it actually records at 140°
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viewing angle so you really get a nice
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sweep of everything in front of your
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vehicle as you saw and it's 1080 full HD
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and I really like it runs about
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$139 and if you drive a lot or if you're
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curious what your drivers are doing in
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your company or you just want to have
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some fun with it it's really slick
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device it also records audio and as you
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saw it pops off very easily for security
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cuz you don't want to just leave it on
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your windshield in case bad people come
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by so the Cobra CDR
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825e $139 at cobra.com this is Dave
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Taylor saying I think I need to go for
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another drive and get some more footage
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so I'll see you in my next video
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