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Given your own example, if the minimum requirement is to record your daily commute (for insurance/liability purposes) then:
- Not being able to show that the pothole that wiped you out actually existed on film would is an issue
- Not being able to show any cause of accident in any inclement weather is an issue
Try it yourself the next time it's raining and dark... take a photo with a cellphone with the flash turned on, of anything, and see whether your camera focused on anything other than rain droplets. Then try with the flash off but another light source to the side, and see whether the camera focused on the thing you lit up, rather than the immediate rain.
It's a fundamental issue with putting the light too close to the camera. It fails to work in anything other than ideal and well-lit scenarios... in which case, why bother integrating them considering British winters?
- Not being able to show that the pothole that wiped you out actually existed on film would is an issue
Velocio
That depends what the requirement for the camera is.
As a device to record your daily urban commute, both front and back integrated cameras probably work fine.
As broadcast quality filming devices, or automated pothole warning devices, probably not.