# Now You Too Can Have Your Very Own Dashcam! **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [December 13, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/now-you-too-can-have-your-very-own-dashcam/91950 "2015-12-13T01:14:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![B.L.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@B.L.E](https://community.cartalk.com/u/B.L.E)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/now-you-too-can-have-your-very-own-dashcam/91950/21 "2015-12-15T16:59:19Z")
You have to hold down the alt key while you are entering the numbers and you have to use the calculator number pad to the right of the keyboard, that means your number lock has to be on. It doesn’t work with the typewriter number keys. The + sign is not used. This is if you have a PC using the Windows operating system. Macs work differently. You can also just find a website that has those symbols and cut and paste them to your post. ---
**Author:** ![BillRussell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/billrussell/32/3179_2.png) [@BillRussell](https://community.cartalk.com/u/BillRussell)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/now-you-too-can-have-your-very-own-dashcam/91950/22 "2015-12-15T17:09:40Z")
Macintosh is easier. ç (option c) é (option e then e) í (option e than i) ü (option u then u) Ü (option u then shift u) ä (option u then a) † (option t) Ω (option z) etcetc ---
**Author:** ![lion9car](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/59ef9b/32.png) [@lion9car](https://community.cartalk.com/u/lion9car)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/now-you-too-can-have-your-very-own-dashcam/91950/23 "2015-12-15T20:57:14Z")
_B.L.E. wrote: You can also just find a website that has those symbols and cut and paste them to your post_ It’s easier to use the Character Map program already present instead of searching for web sites. ---
**Author:** ![Docnick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Docnick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Docnick)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/now-you-too-can-have-your-very-own-dashcam/91950/24 "2015-12-15T21:33:25Z")
I understand dashcams are mandatory on trucks in Russia. A recent collection of footage shows the incredibly stupid mistakes by Russian truck drivers resulting in completely avoidable accidents. ---
**Author:** ![B.L.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@B.L.E](https://community.cartalk.com/u/B.L.E)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 5:26am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/now-you-too-can-have-your-very-own-dashcam/91950/25 "2015-12-16T05:26:33Z")
> **It's easier to use the Character Map program already present instead of searching for web sites.** Now I learned something! Dankeschön! I raise a shot of Jägermeißter to you! ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 7:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/now-you-too-can-have-your-very-own-dashcam/91950/26 "2015-12-16T07:10:21Z")
In one ear and out the other. I’m still trying to get my Christmas labels printed. Maybe a character map program next year. ---
**Author:** ![Ed\_Frugal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@Ed\_Frugal](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Ed_Frugal)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/now-you-too-can-have-your-very-own-dashcam/91950/27 "2015-12-17T14:43:37Z")
Whoops I’m late getting back to the discussion. I now use a laptop so I don’t have a calculator number pad anymore, all I have is the row of number keys at the top of the typewriter keys. Character Map program? Well I’m in over my head again. Glad you guys are learning though. Is it still called a dashcam if its pointed at the driver? They installed those in the trucks at the company I work for, and many of the drivers got HOT about that. Say they they can’t even so much as pick their nose without the boss watching. I thought, “Welcome to the 21st century!” I’m not intimately familiar with what goes on in that division of the company, but I have heard that they lost a few of their better drivers lately, either because of that, or that was the final straw in a series of unpopular changes the company made. Apparently if you have a clean CDL, you have “options” regarding where you are employed. ---
**Author:** ![B.L.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@B.L.E](https://community.cartalk.com/u/B.L.E)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 6:45am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/now-you-too-can-have-your-very-own-dashcam/91950/28 "2015-12-18T06:45:45Z")
Hit the “windows” and “r” keys at the same time. A window will pop up asking you which program you want to run. Enter “charmap” and hit ok. A huge list of charactors will pop up that you can copy and paste from. There! I just did it on my wife’s number pad free laptop. ® I can even type in Russian. Πривет ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 8:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/now-you-too-can-have-your-very-own-dashcam/91950/29 "2015-12-18T08:10:37Z")
® Huh, it works. Still can’t find the Avery templates though, but that’s another time. When I got my computer last year the guy spent about an hour going over everything I could do and the keys I could hit to do special stuff. Unfortunately though, a couple hours later I had forgotten most of it. I sure miss having someone proficient in computers around. ---
**Author:** ![Ed\_Frugal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@Ed\_Frugal](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Ed_Frugal)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/now-you-too-can-have-your-very-own-dashcam/91950/30 "2015-12-19T02:42:37Z")
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