Apparatus and Method for Recording Data Associated with a Vehicle

A vehicle comprising:

• a recoding apparatus for recording data associated with said vehicle, including:
• a camera for providing video data,
• a trigger detector for detecting a predefined trigger event, and
• a data recorder adapted to start recording video data provided by said camera upon detecting the predefined trigger event by said trigger detector,
• wherein said trigger detector verifies the detected trigger event while recording video data by said data recorder and said data recorder stops recording video data if the detected trigger event becomes invalid.

A recording method for recording data associated with a vehicle, comprising:

• receiving video data from a camera;
• detecting a predefined trigger event;
• recording the received video data upon detecting the predefined trigger event;
• verifying the trigger event while recording the video data;
• and
• terminating the recording of video data if the detected trigger event becomes invalid.