What does the button on the camera housing do?

[MBCook]

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[mdolan92869]

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[JCHLi]

I believe it's actually the interior motion sensor... but just in case, don't press it

 

[MBCook]

I believe it's actually the interior motion sensor... but just in case, don't press it

Sensors shouldn’t look like buttons. That’s bad design. It makes me too curious.

 

[Mach-Lee]

Interior temperature sensor. Not motion.

 

[MBCook]

Interior temperature sensor. Not motion.

Ok that makes a bit more sense. Thanks.

 

[redgrandam]

Interior temperature sensor. Not motion.

Where is the motion detector or how does it do that?

 

[Mach-Lee]

Where is the motion detector or how does it do that?

There are some grille slots near the overhead lights. They are ultrasonic sensors.

 

[redgrandam]

There are some grille slots near the overhead lights. They are ultrasonic sensors.

Neat. Thx.

 

[JCHLi]

Interior temperature sensor. Not motion.

Okay okay, but hear me out... temperature is just measuring heat or kinetic energy.. so motion sensor....

Be seriously, thanks for the correction.

 

[Mach Al]

Strange. My console doesn’t look like that at all.

 

[tfitzgex]

I told my daughter it was a camera. That way she behaves when she borrowed my car..

 

[HuntingPudel]

There is a similar sensor under the front bumper that measures outside air temperature. It extends farther out from the bumper cover. ??

 

[stealthytolkien]

Sensors shouldn’t look like buttons. That’s bad design. It makes me too curious.

I agree with you in principle.

But cars generally don’t have unmarked / unnamed buttons. Every button has some label or icon next to it or on it indicating what it does. I looked around the car and only found one obvious exception - the sunglasses compartment lid (and glovebox but these are all too common now) and even that should have a sunglasses icon on it in my opinion. The one you’re talking about is just a temperature sensor, I believe, as others too have pointed out.

 

[MBCook]

I agree with you in principle.

But cars generally don’t have unmarked / unnamed buttons.

You’re completely correct. They don’t. But it looks so much like a button. I didn’t think it was any kind of normal function. I was guessing some kind of camera reset button. The kind of thing you should never really need but could plausibly exist.

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