California police tows Teslas to download Sentry Mode crime recordings

[Redaktion]

Police are now treating Tesla cars as surveillance cameras on wheels, towing them to secure parking lots, and obtaining court orders to download crime scene footage they may have inadvertently recorded.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/California-police-tows-Teslas-to-download-Sentry-Mode-crime-recordings.882249.0.html

[Hunter2020]

Such a dangerous spying peeping tom.  No wonder China bans all Teslas from government venues whenever they hold an important meeting in China!

[Gallo123]

It's why a self installed dash camera is better, you can hide it or claim it's broken. No one can say otherwise during an incident.

[Richard Grotkier]

Its early in the use of car surveillance systems to aid in fighting crime but who gets the bill for the towing maybe $2⁰0 dollars then the 25 dollars a day for storage i bet it will not be the police or city especially if there was no usable evidence recovered.

[Jesus]

What a pure garbage article with a clueless following of Pigeons posting...

Blocked for ever from my feed.

[Sgr]

Since when does Oakland pd do anything related to crime??

[Black Myth Wukong]

No wonder China bans all Teslas from government venues

Am no expert in China-US relations but if that is really true, I think they do that because the West stick massive import VAT tax and try to make any EV (e.g. BYD, etc) sold by a Chinese brands impossible on western market.

They probably already have some policy in most western governments to ban any Chinese brand vehicles.

[jimmyz]

It's why a self installed dash camera is better, you can hide it or claim it's broken. No one can say otherwise during an incident.

LoL you would then be committing a crime and they will just seize the car and it's camera and charge you with obstruction of an investigation and giving false information. If the evidence shows you are guilty than it's also another charge on top.