0 a camera that is attached to a car's dashboard (= the part that contains some of the controls used for driving and the devices for measuring speed and distance) in order to record what is happening on the road that the car is driving along:
The public didn't have to wait for an official state release of dash cam footage.
The dash cam footage of the incident went viral.
It wasn't a dash cam or a body camera, or recorded on some distant bystander's cellphone.
The traffic stop was caught on camera, but police haven't released the dash cam video to the public.
Jurors said the dash cam video sealed the case against the 50-year-old officer.
In a civil suit, a plaintiff could subpoena a dash cam recording.
Or a very nice piece of video editing, released into the viral realm in the now familiar "dash cam" format.
The jury viewed dash cam videotape of that attempted traffic stop.
