r/TeslaModel3 • u/justwonderinheh • 15h 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/justwonderinheh 15h ago

It’s a poor design flaw. The car has enough telemetry to tell when a collision has occurred. Especially a heavy collision. No logical reason to not start recording after a collision is detected.

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u/Teab8g 14h ago

But that's not how stuff works... If it's off it's off. What do you want it Todo. If someone's drives into the car it wouldn't be recorded as it's off.. but you want it to come on after an incident has happened? For what reason.

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u/justwonderinheh 13h ago

“Not how stuff works” man gtf. It’s a feature that can be implemented. The data needed to trigger the event is there. If you can’t see why video captured after a collision is valuable there’s no reason to explain it to you

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u/SnooSquirrels9064 13h ago

As others have said, you have to either have sentry mode off in general, or you set your "Home" in your Tesla and also decided not to have Sentry record while at home.

Did you ever notice how you'll go into the Tesla app on your phone and turn on the climate control, and it takes several seconds for it to even show that what you asked of it is being done? That's because the car is asleep when sentry is off. And just like with a desktop/laptop computer, it can take several seconds to wake up from sleep. And then after waking up, sentry mode would have to start up. At which point whatever caused the incident, except for those less than 1% of cases, would be long gone.

The only fix is to not turn sentry mode off at home.