At 60 miles an hour, your car covers 88 feet every second. So, when you turn around for two seconds to check the car seat, you’ve driven more than half a football field without looking at the road.
Parents do it anyway, dozens of times a trip, because a rear-facing seat hides what you’re looking for: your kid. If your baby stopped making noise, you want to know, are they napping, or did something happen? You won’t know unless you look.
TheLAMTTO RC38 does the looking for you.
A Second Set of Eyes on the Car Seat
The RC38 is a small 1080p camera that clips near your child’s seat and streams a live feed to the CarPlay screen already built into your dashboard. It pairs with a plug-in adapter that goes into your car’s USB port, and setup takes just a few minutes. And you won’t need to do any drilling or rewiring.
You already glance down at the screen built into your car for directions, so checking on your kids or a dog won’t take any more effort or attention. Split View keeps the camera feed and your navigation on screen together too, and picture-in-picture shrinks the feed into a corner you can drag or resize, so you won’t have to decide between monitoring your baby and figuring out where you’re going.
Infrared night vision switches on by itself when the ambient light drops, so you can keep an eye on your child even on dark highways and in the shadowy pocket of a rear-facing seat.
Live Only, Nothing Saved
The RC38 also only shows you a live view. Nothing more. There’s no recording, no storage and no cloud upload, which means no footage of your kid sitting on a server somewhere waiting for a data breach.
The adapter you’re using also conveniently turns wired CarPlay into wireless CarPlay and works with Android phones. Once you’re parked, it mirrors your phone over AirPlay or Miracast, so a long wait in the school pickup line can become a cartoon for whoever’s strapped in.
One Cost, No Sub
The RC38 doesn’t need a subscription, just a one time purchase of $139.99. LAMTTO backs it with a 30-day return window and a 12-month warranty.
Check your car before you order, since the RC38 needs factory-installed wired Apple CarPlay and a USB data port. LAMTTO built it for 2016 and newer vehicles, and cars that only support wireless CarPlay (or only support wired/wireless Android Auto) can’t use it.
