How it works

A camera that runs the model on its own sensor, a small computer that draws the dashboard, and your phone for the typing.

  1. The camera does the seeing

    RoadEye's AI camera runs the sign-detection model on its own sensor. The device receives boxes, not pixels to search, which leaves it free for the screen, the map and the recording.

  2. The device does the thinking

    Every detection is confirmed over several frames, merged into one box per sign, cropped and read for its number. Speed limits are checked against the map, and the dial, the sign list and the mini-map are drawn 15 times a second on a 5-inch touchscreen.

  3. Your phone does the typing

    Searching for a destination, naming a saved place, scrolling the clips: things a touchscreen on a dashboard is bad at are done on the phone page, over the car's hotspot or your home Wi-Fi.

What's inside

Camera
An AI camera that runs the detection model on its own sensor, facing forward through the windshield
Screen
A 5-inch touchscreen, 800 × 480, on a stand for the dashboard
Power
5 V, 5 A (27 W) USB-C: in a car, a 12 V to 5 V 5 A converter with a USB-C output
GPS
Optional: a USB GPS, or your phone's GPS over its hotspot
Storage
A microSD card; the dash camera's loop takes its share of it
The RoadEye device taken apart: the orange camera housing with its hinge bolt and knobs above, then the screen module showing the live look while navigating, its frame in front of it, the power switch and a knob to the side, and the stand below
The parts: the camera in its housing, the screen module and its frame, the switch, the stand

Setting it up

Put it on the dashboard with the camera facing forward through the windshield and plug it into power. It comes set up, and keeps itself up to date after that. The first start shows the RoadEye logo for about half a minute while the camera's model is prepared.

For map speed limits and directions, plug in a USB GPS or share your phone's: no setting up beyond the hotspot.

The Help page's Phone hotspot topic: four numbered steps, turn on the phone's hotspot, the device joins it by itself within a minute once it has joined it before, the first time join it from the device's desktop, and over the hotspot the device keeps its clock right, fetches the map's speed limits and finds updates; a green chip at the top right says On Wi-Fi: iPhone
The device's Help walks through the hotspot, and says which Wi-Fi it is on
The Help page's Phone GPS topic: five numbered steps, without a USB GPS it uses the phone's over the hotspot, install GPSd Forwarder on an Android phone, enter the address 10.42.0.1 and the port 10110, allow it location all the time, and the Diagnostics' GPS panel then says Phone GPS; a green chip says Phone GPS
Sharing the phone's GPS: the address and port to enter are on the screen

The device

The device from the front at night: the screen in the night look while navigating, 30 mph beside a 35 speed limit sign, a turn card saying 350 ft then left onto Elm Street, and the route as a blue band on the road ahead, the camera above it
From the front, at night
Close up of the camera in its orange housing, hinged on top of the screen module with a knob at each side
The camera, on a hinge above the screen
The device from the side: the screen module leaning back on its stand, the power switch on its side, the camera tilted on its hinge above
From the side: the screen on its stand, the camera on its hinge
The device from behind: the RoadEye mark above a row of vents, the hinge to the stand below, the camera's lens looking forward above
From behind: the mark, the vents, the hinge to the stand

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