Mini-xxxx redesign concept?

[gitup]

Obviously, you've never touched a dash cam DSP that has been running for a while (or the heat sink on the top of a Mobius for that matter) but they get extraordinarily hot, enough to burn your fingertip and make you instantly pull your hand away. The Ambarella processors get even hotter than the Novateks. Between the hot processor and the also hot sensor in the lens module there is plenty of heat inside a camera that needs to be shed.

Personally, I would have no concerns that a properly installed 3M VHB mounted camera would turn into a projectile but I certainly wouldn't mount dash cams "above my head" at any rate.

I have touched the A12 chipset before, it is too too hot.
One of other A12 camera chipset is close to the front panel, and no good heating shed, make it very hot in hand.

Also you are right, if the sensor is too hot, it will hugely affect the image quality, this happened on other cameras early version, video out of focus while running more than 30mins.