 This was initially shifted to a ground-based analog system, with variable results, and more recently to a ground-based digital solution which is now the norm.Onboard cameras are now commonplace in other top motorsports including the World Rally Championship and MotoGP.The use of dashboard cameras in automobiles began with law-enforcement in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s; then, as technology became cheaper, ubiquitous in civilian use in Russia as a form of sousveillance, inasmuch as Russian courts prefer video evidence to eyewitness testimony, but also as a guard against police corruption and insurance fraud.