I know we’ve said some pretty salty things about Tesla and Elon musk in the past, but that doesn’t mean we don’t recognize that their cars have remarkable design and engineering, and some very new and, in this case, especially useful features. I like the sentinel mode. Although normally this system is designed to detect wells that do not disturb the Tesla with its built-in cameras, this time it helped to thwart the theft of an air-cooled Porsche 911.
This happened in Spain, where our brothers write about cars in Motorpasion they were kind enough to tell me everything.
What happened was that two masked men (the masks appear to be more of the Coronavirus type of protection than the type of stealing cars) attempted to steal the Porsche 964 Carrera 2 by pushing it out of its parking spot, a smart move ever since. The air-cooled engine, without the load of soundproof water jackets around the cylinders, is quite noisy.
What they did not count on was another car in the parking lot that gave them away, which is what the Tesla Model 3 did. The Sentinel mode of the Model 3 seems to have been activated by the movement around the car, which activated the Tesla cameras to save the recorded video files, which can be viewed in the Tesla owner’s tweet there.
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The car was found in a city called L’Eliana, where a resident recognized the Porsche from videos recorded on Tesla seen on Twitter.
The police (or, as the article translated by Google calls them, the Civil Guard) have the video and are trying to identify the possible thieves, who perhaps were only pushing the car for exercise reasons?
Regardless of whether thieves are caught or not, this is one of the best uses of sentinel cameras in a car we’ve seen, where the cameras can help other cars in the area, especially classic cars born in ages long before. to integrate, they even imagined sentinel cameras.
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