 and protect it and not only protect it when you're driving you can actually park your car put this on park mode and if someone hits your car in the parking lot or even a grocery cart hits your car this will automatically start recording and you'll have the evidence you need to catch the culprit and i also love that it has a three inch screen that covers 120 degrees so you're going to be able to see the images clearly when you're trying to look back at it and see what's going on and this comes with everything you need by the way the window shield mount the memory card the power adapter