Remember, when the police seize someone's computer for nefarious activities, they'll take keyboards, printers, and standalone monitors too
Police Seize Teslas that Witnessed Crimes
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Without a warrant they can ask all they want, I'm no giving it to them.
I think the LEOs would have to subpoena the data hosting companies and/or the manufacture (Tesla in this case.) Harder and longer to do that than to illegally tow a vehicle away while keeping it quiet from the media's eyes.
Police are getting warrants and being ignored.
When this happens they resort towing the car.
This is going to be challenged.
Yes, so does the FBI.Remember, when the police seize someone's computer for nefarious activities, they'll take keyboards, printers, and standalone monitors too
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That's for the intimidation factor.Remember, when the police seize someone's computer for nefarious activities, they'll take keyboards, printers, and standalone monitors too
Can one view those Tesla recorded videos remotely e.g. car owner on their phone?
Can those videos be downloaded to save on a phone?
Can those videos be downloaded to save on a phone?
Meanwhile they’re confused why half the nation passionately hates them…
I like to think it differs state to state, but then again, who knows. I live in a red state and the last cop I dealt with was more worthless than the dog poop on the bottom of my Croc.
I like to think it differs state to state, but then again, who knows. I live in a red state and the last cop I dealt with was more worthless than the dog poop on the bottom of my Croc.
Can’t play back the recorded files remotely. You can take the USB out and download to a computer, etc.
The accident I witnessed, I just took a phone video of the in car screen for 20 seconds or so and emailed it to both parties.
Some law enforcement agencies are so desperate to hire they have to lower their standards.
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If a violent crime, arson, murder or kidnapping happened and my Tesla witnessed it I would definitely want the police to see the video.
Well if you remote start it (for HVAC) maybe.
I was looking all sorts of info on how to do it with a Tesla, and apparently newer models (starting maybe 2021) started coming with the built-in . I think the default format is exFAT. The video includes Sentry mode recordings, and it's been noted that the running video can be specifically saved when honking and/or manually saving it on the controls. The one for sale now looks different than the one I pulled out of the glovebox.
https://shop.tesla.com/product/usb-drive
I don't know what's been tested, but apparently many have been tested and I would think most would work, although they would need to be manually formatted with a specific volume name.
The older version looks like this. I suspect it's made by Samsung, which has an almost identically shaped USB flash drive.
https://shop.tesla.com/product/usb-drive
I don't know what's been tested, but apparently many have been tested and I would think most would work, although they would need to be manually formatted with a specific volume name.
The older version looks like this. I suspect it's made by Samsung, which has an almost identically shaped USB flash drive.
Again - probably just a Samsung.
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-BAR-Plus-256GB-MUF-256BE4/dp/B07BPKL2D2/
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-BAR-Plus-256GB-MUF-256BE4/dp/B07BPKL2D2/
More likely it will be overwritten if not manually saved.Don't Tesla videos get uploaded to Cloud? Police don't want to issue warrants to Tesla to release the videos?
Dashcams normally have SD cards and if anything then either the card or dashcam itself could be claimed but whole car?
Good thing they don't arrest witnesses and keep them in custody for duration of investigation...
If cops were that smart they wouldn't be cops.
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I recently reformatted the drive in a 2023 Model 3. I found lots of old video, some dating back to 2023. If the video is specifically saved (manually, via "honk to save", or when a collision is detected), it won't get overwritten any time soon. I think it's a bit more proactive about removing Sentry Mode recordings. The default is 128 GB, which is plenty. I don't think any of the video was intentionally saved (and honk to save wasn't enabled at the time) but I think they got saved when accidentally hitting the camera icon.
That would cost a lot of money to upload videos to the cloud. Who's going to pay for it?Don't Tesla videos get uploaded to Cloud? Police don't want to issue warrants to Tesla to release the videos?
Dashcams normally have SD cards and if anything then either the card or dashcam itself could be claimed but whole car?
Good thing they don't arrest witnesses and keep them in custody for duration of investigation...
The ability to be able to view video via the Tesla app is part of the Premium Connectivity package. I don’t know if there’s any means to maybe save every new video. From a technical standpoint it shouldn’t be that difficult since the video can obviously be transmitted over the internet.
Not only that, but why tow/impound the vehicle when they could simply extract the USB drive with all the video on it? Seems like they’re making this too easy for a good lawyer to force them into a big settlement… which just means they’ll need more officers to ramp up their policy enforcement operations to raise enough revenue to get them back to being profitable…
I will get in trouble here if I speak my mind because it is a mix of expletives and the police.
Its 2025 you can just dump the data on a thumb drive. There is about a million different ways to obtain the data without robbing someone of their life saving transportation.
I know its mostly toilet paper now but we have this thing called the 4th amendment.
Its 2025 you can just dump the data on a thumb drive. There is about a million different ways to obtain the data without robbing someone of their life saving transportation.
I know its mostly toilet paper now but we have this thing called the 4th amendment.
It's on a thumb drive on all the newer models. I could imagine a warrant to seize the drive itself, to copy the entire contents, or perhaps to specifically copy over the relevant video for a particular incident.
