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Just turn on full time recording if you think you’ll need it.Am I reading this correctly? Incidents only occur when you hard brake or do a few other alarming things? And then it only catches the previous 15 seconds?
i don’t want to be a Debbie downer, but this is a bit disappointing. Maybe I’m missing something, but when I had my Tesla I used the dash cam feature to capture when another diver cut me off (but I didn’t need to hard brake) or another time when an accident occurred that I witnessed, but wasn’t a part of. Both times the incident happened more then 15 seconds before I decided it would be good to capture + there was no hard breaking or anything else I needed to do. With Tesla, no issue, just press a button and it recorded the last 10 minutes, which was plenty far enough back to capture what I wanted to record.
I was really hoping for similar functionality. I guess I might need to invest in an aftermarket dash cam.
It’s hard because I don’t know when I’ll need it. And it sounds like full time recording will just stop when the drive is full. That could be a good solution if they would just delete the old footage when the drive was full to make room for the new footage. Essentially allowing for the last X hours of footage always being available. Maybe in a future update?
15 seconds before and then 1:45 after the incident. The car keeps a rolling buffer that's only saved to the drive when an incident is detected. It's not meant for situations like recording someone else's accident.Am I reading this correctly? Incidents only occur when you hard brake or do a few other alarming things? And then it only catches the previous 15 seconds?
i don’t want to be a Debbie downer, but this is a bit disappointing. Maybe I’m missing something, but when I had my Tesla I used the dash cam feature to capture when another diver cut me off (but I didn’t need to hard brake) or another time when an accident occurred that I witnessed, but wasn’t a part of. Both times the incident happened more then 15 seconds before I decided it would be good to capture + there was no hard breaking or anything else I needed to do. With Tesla, no issue, just press a button and it recorded the last 10 minutes, which was plenty far enough back to capture what I wanted to record.
I was really hoping for similar functionality. I guess I might need to invest in an aftermarket dash cam.
If someone cuts you off, honk your horn. That also flags it and will record.Am I reading this correctly? Incidents only occur when you hard brake or do a few other alarming things? And then it only catches the previous 15 seconds?
i don’t want to be a Debbie downer, but this is a bit disappointing. Maybe I’m missing something, but when I had my Tesla I used the dash cam feature to capture when another diver cut me off (but I didn’t need to hard brake) or another time when an accident occurred that I witnessed, but wasn’t a part of. Both times the incident happened more then 15 seconds before I decided it would be good to capture + there was no hard breaking or anything else I needed to do. With Tesla, no issue, just press a button and it recorded the last 10 minutes, which was plenty far enough back to capture what I wanted to record.
I was really hoping for similar functionality. I guess I might need to invest in an aftermarket dash cam.
Totally agree that drive cam can work for the situations I used to use the Tesla version for, but only if it recorded continuously. If I’m reading it correctly, it looks like it stops recording when the drive is full. I guess I just need to be on top of emptying it out..
Incidents are recorded to internal storage so external drive is not required. If you want to record entire drives with drive cam then add a 1TB SSD for $60. I'm sure it behaves like every single DVR/NVR I have ever worked with and overwrites oldest first. You don't have to manually delete it once full. That's bonkers.Totally agree that drive cam can work for the situations I used to use the Tesla version for, but only if it recorded continuously. If I’m reading it correctly, it looks like it stops recording when the drive is full. I guess I just need to be on top of emptying it out..
I get it that not everyone is looking for it to cover the same cases I was thinking about, but I was hoping the system would do so seamlessly. It’s definitely a step in the right direction.
Got the update recently. Am happy to report that I misunderstood the release notes and that drive cam will totally work for the things I was hoping for. Thanks all for letting me know that I was misunderstanding it!
