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A driveway camera helped explain an overnight car scrape

Daniel examines his car's scraped rear bumper where a recycling bin came to rest in his driveway.

Daniel woke to find the recycling bin against his car and a fresh scrape on the bumper. He remembered hearing a clatter after midnight but hadn't gone outside to check. Before asking the neighbours whether anyone had been near the car, he opened the recording from his AIjia plug-in camera.

He watched the bin roll across the driveway in the wind, hit the bumper and come to rest. No person appeared in the part of the driveway the camera covered. Daniel moved the bin to a sheltered spot and took photos for a repair estimate. The recording had answered the question he woke up with: what hit the car?

He could follow the whole sequence because the plug-in camera records continuously while powered. A single alert or still image might have shown the bin beside the car without showing how it got there. When Daniel first set up the camera, he aimed it at his parking spot rather than trying to cover the entire street. He also checked that the home Wi-Fi reached the mounting position.

If you want to see how something happened in your driveway, explore AIjia's plug-in camera and consider where it could get a clear view of your parking spot.

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