As for Motion Detection, here is where the problem lies. The timeout is too short. So you pull up to a red light and stop. There is no other traffic or motion detected by the dashcam and ten seconds later, the dashcam goes to sleep...... Completely missing that car crashing into you out of nowhere or the guy in the other lane running the red.
In my testing, The G1W-C takes two seconds to detect movement, wake up and start recording. In an accident, two seconds is a lifetime.
It almost seems like the algorithm for the motion detection was programmed for busy city traffic, where there would be constant movement of a certain percentage for the dashcam sensor to keep it alive.
What we really need is a motion detection "sleep timer" of at least 90 seconds to two minutes. As it is now, the dashcam is going to miss a lot while it is sleeping.
BTW, the file sizes are only for that 10 seconds that have been recorded during the motion detection event, not the full 2, 3 or 5 minutes you set in the options for default recording time. Therefore, you get a bunch of 14 - 17MB sized files from motion detection.
I wonder if there is a way to get the word to people who program the firmware to increase the "stay awake" timer after motion is detected for those of us that don't live in the big city.