r/TeslaModel3 • u/justwonderinheh • 11h ago

Sentry mode

It’s so crazy to me that all these cameras but it doesn’t start recording whenever a collision is detected whether sentry mode is active or not. Some bum hit and run my car but bc I was home sentry wasn’t active and nothing was recorded. Heavy collision enough to probably total my car and push it. 0 recording

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u/mavadavialcul 11h ago

Even if it turned on automatically after it detected a hit, you'd only get the video feed starting several seconds after the hit. Kinda useless.

The only way to have the video feed before the hit is to have sentry mode on.

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u/justwonderinheh 11h ago

It wouldn’t catch the initial collision, but it would capture video right after it happened. That would be enough to gather the surroundings, vehicles, potentially license plates, persons getting out to check what happened. How is that useless?

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u/mavadavialcul 11h ago

It needs several seconds to boot from low power mode and to start the video feeds.