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Tesla Sentry Mode catches deliberate attack against Model 3, vandal arrested
A Tesla Model 3 owner is thanking the video recording capabilities of Sentry Mode after it captured a shocking act of vandalism against his electric car. As could be seen in footage from the security feature, a woman stealthily yet aggressively keyed the Model 3 as she was ushering her children inside a Dodge Journey SUV, resulting in deep scratches to the vehicle's body panels.
A short clip[*] of the incident was shared on YouTube by Rafael "Teslatino" Santoni, who noted in a conversation with Teslarati that while the incident definitely appeared premeditated, the Model 3 owner could not determine the lady's motivation for the attack. The damage from the incident was quoted at $900 in repair costs by a third-party body shop.
Fortunately for the Model 3 owner, the footage from Sentry Mode was able to capture the entire incident, and it featured a clear shot of the woman's face. With her identity determined, the attack was promptly reported to the police, who later arrested the woman on vandalism charges. It remains to be seen if she will be required to pay for the damages she caused to the Model 3.
[...] While remarkable for their technology and performance, Tesla's electric vehicles remain polarizing to some groups of people. Attacks on Teslas have been recorded in the past, including a road rage incident against a Model 3 that resulted in an instant karma crash, as well as an unfortunate incident involving vandals and a Supercharger. Some electric car owners have also found themselves becoming victim to acts colloquially known as ICE-ing, which refers to gas-powered cars (intentionally or unintentionally) blocking access to charging stations.
[*] Direct links to the original video and to some extra footage on YouTube. --martyb
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by nitehawk214 on Monday April 01 2019, @05:57PM (28 children)
How is this at all interesting? Because it is a Tesla?
Lots of cars have dashcams and lots of dashcams have an away mode where it records when the vehicle is off.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 01 2019, @06:23PM (23 children)
Hmmmm . . . to me it was somewhat interesting, because I've never had a camera in any of my vehicles. I seriously considered installing a camera in the cab of my truck when I was driving truck, but never did it.
Mostly because I couldn't work out how to mount 2 or 3 cameras to capture everything, and save it all to a hard drive that I could access, affordably. I probably should have spent the ~$500 on the equipment, and jumped into the project, figuring things out as I went.
Imagine, you park, go inside to eat dinner, and come back to find the entire hood, grill, and lights lying on the ground, in front of your truck. Happened to me twice, about ten months apart. The second incident, the guy parked beside me watched it happen, and wrote down all the information I needed for insurance to file a claim for hit and run. First one, no such luck - my company ate the cost of that one.
But, you're probably right - if this wasn't a Tesla, few people would give a damn.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @06:36PM
Never had an intelligent driver, either! Ha! Let alone an artificially intelligent one! Heehee! Just a loose nut behind the wheel! Something else Runaway does not know, because he has no experience with it, like rational thought! But he is going to give us his uniformed opinion anyway, just because we need to hear it, to make him feel useful, I guess.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Monday April 01 2019, @06:37PM (2 children)
I don't think a typical 2x dashcam system with storage costs anywhere near $500. Maybe $200, tops.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 01 2019, @07:05PM (1 child)
You're talking today's prices - I'm talking uhhhh - holy crap - fifteen years or so ago. Time flies when you're having fun, doesn't it?
(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Monday April 01 2019, @07:37PM
Understandable.
As someone else said, you can get it all for under $100. You might want to look out for a sale [slickdeals.net].
I just grabbed a 32 GB microSD from Micro Center for $4. 256 GB is $35. Depending on the resolution/bitrates recorded by the dashcam, this could mean several hours or even days of footage (720p30?) recorded before it needs to start deleting.
https://carcamcentral.com/guide/recommended-sd-cards-for-dash-cameras [carcamcentral.com]
https://dashboardcamerareviews.com/ [dashboardcamerareviews.com]
https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-dash-cam/ [thewirecutter.com]
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(Score: 2) by NewNic on Monday April 01 2019, @06:56PM (18 children)
You can get a reasonable dashcam and enough storage for 2 hours of recording for ~ $60.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 01 2019, @07:11PM (17 children)
Does that camera have good enough resolution to read the license plate of the car that sideswipes you? Fifteen years ago, the sort of resolution available at those prices was abysmal.
(Score: 5, Informative) by RS3 on Monday April 01 2019, @08:54PM (15 children)
They've been getting much much better and cheaper, like most similar devices (like cellphone cameras). I recently (and finally) bought a dashcam that does 1080p @ 30fps, has a 142 degree angle, very clear images, great night vision, comes with a 16 GB micro-SD card, certainly accepts a 32, maybe 64, for like $40. You can spend $20 and get a reasonable camera (or 3). I wanted the wide angle lens. There are some great websites that compile dashcams and reviews. Easy web search.
8 or so years ago I was blamed for an accident that was not my fault. Young girl crossed into my lane just in front of me as she was making a right turn. Nowhere to go, no time to do anything but hit brakes. Didn't increase my insurance by much, but I didn't have collision coverage so I lost a lot of $. Pisses me off that I got automatically blamed, even though I told them what she did. Bottom line: if I had bought a camera for $500 it would have saved me much money, and, she would have gotten the blame she deserved.
Also, interestingly, I find I'm much calmer driving now. I used to get irritated at how badly some people drive (not road-rage- much better things to do with life!) but now I'm pretty calm, and make copies of any videos showing idiot driving, just in case.
(Score: 5, Funny) by takyon on Monday April 01 2019, @09:47PM (14 children)
Moreover, you've joined the ranks of people who are ready to accidentally capture footage of a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere.
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(Score: 2) by RS3 on Monday April 01 2019, @10:08PM (13 children)
Wow, yeah, cool, thanks! And ghosts in windows, and who-knows-what else it might catch happening in the background.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @10:27PM (5 children)
That reads like you're being sarcastic, but takyon was at least semi-serious. There are some great dashcam vids of meteors on youtube.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Monday April 01 2019, @10:33PM (2 children)
I mean, we have to thank Russia's circumstances for allowing us to have so many great angles of the Chelyabinsk impact:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140517224437/http://www.wired.com/2013/02/russian-dash-cams [archive.org]
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(Score: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday April 02 2019, @02:42AM (1 child)
I'm not sure where you are- I'm in the US. I watch the Russian crash videos from time-to-time and learn a lot about driving, vehicle dynamics, cultural differences, and more. I don't mean to disparage Russians or anyone- just an observation: the Russians tend to make large sudden steering wheel motions and it often gets them into trouble, esp. when they drift onto the shoulder. I guess I'm observant enough to have figured it out at a very young age: you have to understand the surface conditions you're driving on and use appropriate steering input. Of course there are other problems. I feel badly for them, but from what I've read, things are improving, cops are less corrupt, and it's likely due to the dashcam video evidence.
Ever watch any of the "John Connor" vids? He captions them and sometimes it's a riot. Sometimes very sad of course. Some are correct translations, but many are "pizdez" and "yourbunnywrote". He calls himself "Blyat Production" https://www.youtube.com/user/sgigti/videos [youtube.com]
Check out #336 @ 19 seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJRus5mz63E&t=17 [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by sjames on Tuesday April 02 2019, @06:06AM
You do have to consider selection bias though. Nobody posts videos of "I drove to the store, nothing happened".
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday April 02 2019, @12:28AM (1 child)
I was not being sarcastic, but I bet your ego will keep trying to tell me how I convey sarcasm. Stop interpreting what you read- you aren't clairvoyant and nobody needs your negativity.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 02 2019, @09:43AM
If you weren't being sarcastic then you are a big enough moron to believe in ghosts. I apologise for thinking better of you.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Tuesday April 02 2019, @01:59AM (6 children)
Friend of mine captured footage of a woman kneeling in front of and facing a guy who was standing. The top part was cut off, I guess she was helping him tuck in his shirt and he was modest about it and hid behind the parked car.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday April 02 2019, @02:25AM (5 children)
Yep, you never know what it will catch. I'm pretty focused on the road and driving when I drive, and my camera has a 142 degree angle so it'll catch stuff I likely miss.
(okay AC, now I'll be sarcastic) That was really nice of that woman to help that guy. Maybe he had to take a leak and got his zipper stuck and she's near-sighted.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 02 2019, @02:39AM (2 children)
Just to stay on topic: I once zipped part of my foreskin into my pants zipper. Yes, the only way to get it loose was to zip back down over it.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday April 02 2019, @03:12AM
Way too much information.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 02 2019, @04:06AM
You can usually cut the backside of the zipper in cases like that to free anything that's trapped in the zipper.
Or at least that's what normal people do.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Tuesday April 02 2019, @02:46AM (1 child)
Yeah, it must have been a stuck zipper, and she was really helpful in getting it unstuck, her head was bobbing back and forth quite a bit.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday April 02 2019, @03:15AM
Yep, that's the prescribed technique they teach in wardrobe malfunction corrective action training manuals. He's lucky she was there.
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Monday April 01 2019, @10:01PM
Possibly -- they have quite high resolution available, but you need a large SD card and to make sure the dashcam actually supports that size of SD card.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 5, Interesting) by hemocyanin on Monday April 01 2019, @06:39PM (3 children)
I have a dashcam. It records what is outside the car from the perspective of being INSIDE the car. Tesla's cams apparently record the outside of the car from a perspective OUTSIDE the car. If this lady keyed my car the maximum I would have seen is that she was near my car. Tesla's cam actually recorded her reaching behind her butt and gouging the paint. That view isn't what you get form a $99 dash cam.
(Score: 4, Informative) by NewNic on Monday April 01 2019, @06:59PM
The Tesla dashcam feature now records using the front camera, which is mounted on the windshield in front of the rear-view mirror and the side cameras, which are mounted on the front fenders, looking backwards.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday April 01 2019, @07:33PM
Ahh good call. I guess WTFV is the new RTFM. The interesting thing is the new angles that cameras integrated into the car provides. Normal front/rear view cameras wouldn't have picked this up.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 3, Interesting) by driverless on Tuesday April 02 2019, @02:02AM
It's not just Teslas, a number of recent cars have this for driving assist. Friend of mine has some generic but recent hatchback and it provides a 360deg. top-down view of the car when he's backing it via all-round cameras.