Model 3 owner Brad King’s TeslaCam feature captured the moment when the driver of an already damaged car appeared out of nowhere to crash into his vehicle. The feature hasn’t even been available for 2 weeks and it has already proven quite useful as a few owners have shared videos of accidents caught on video by the feature that can help them or the authorities. Those videos will be saved with a timestamp and will not be overwritten. The drive can archive the most recent ten minutes of video by tapping the dashcam icon while recording. When the feature is in use, it records for an hour before overwriting the old videos. Once it is plugged in, the vehicle should recognize it and a dashcam icon appears in the status bar at the top of your touchscreen.Īt that point, the dashcam automatically begins recording and you can control the dashcam by pressing the icon. ![]() The drive needs a manually created folder called “TeslaCam” and be plugged into one of the front USB ports. Under the first version of the feature, Tesla owners need a USB flash drive with “as much available storage as possible”, and it needs to be formatted in FAT32. ![]() ![]() Tesla tried to help out customer by giving them a free-of-charge feature using one of the front-facing Autopilot cameras as a defacto dashcam.Įvery Tesla owner with a vehicle equipped with Autopilot 2.5 and who receive the new version 9 software update can simply plug a USB drive in their car and follow some simple instructions to get the feature. In this day and age, it can be very useful to have some video evidence even for small fender-benders whether it’d be due to a lying party or an overzealous insurance company. Tesla introduced its over-the-air dashcam feature using an Autopilot camera just over a week ago and it is already proving useful by capturing a few accidents on video.
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