Did you get the camera before getting rear ended later that evening? You move quick!You say you never had it happen, but how do you know without a camera? There is a YouTube channel that shows Tesla's cameras, its pretty interesting to watch sometimes.
You are driving a $60,000 car, that right now, would cost thousands of dollars to fix in just a minor fender bender (see other peoples posts here). That is considering that your insurance company does not just total the car all together. Let alone the lead time on parts could take months where you have no car.
A camera system is the cheapest insurance that you can ever buy. Pay $200 bucks once every 5 years or so and you are covered if someone hits you (a not fault accident of course). It removes all the he said she said crap that people ALWAYS do. You get legal support (often free because you have video) and all the above issues disappear. It cost you nothing, your rates don't go up, you get a rental car, you get deprecation or money if totaled, you get lost wages if there are any, any possible medical bills are taking care of ect ect... Even if its your fault a lot of states assign percentage of fault to drivers. Its possible that the video could make you "less" at fault thus making you less responsible legally. Of course if you know its your fault, you never mention the fact you have a camera
I'm a old dude, been in three accidents my entire life. Two of those accidents happened the SAME night about 1hr apart... First one was an old lady who was lost, she curbed her tires (parked directly against a curb) and stopped her car, so I went around her. As I was going around her she pulled away from the curb and hit me. She claimed fault at the time, however she told her insurance that I cut her off. I believe I was assigned 30% fault for that when it was 100% not my fault at all, I was livid. I actually stopped behind the lady trying to figure out what the heck she was doing before I went around her. The second accident that night was a rear end at a stop light, then my 3rd accident was years later which was also a rear end on the freeway.
After that old lady straight up lied, I got a camera. You have to think about the liability, what if god forbid, its a fatal accident. That $200 camera could save you from having a REAL F'ed up day.. Thats just my 2cents
The reason why it won't happen is because it's ford. They will have it on a future model of the mach e but not give it to us I am guessing.
exactly. Tesla can't do 360 view because their cams don't point down enough, and the mirror cameras in the Mach E point straight down and aren't useful for sentry mode. Even the rear camera is pointed downward a little, so might not get a good face shot.
That does really suck. Unfortunately BEV's have now been made into a divisive issue just like preventing a fatal disease has been. Just yesterday I read a ridiculous rant by some blogger about how the pinhead green movement is destroying dodge because the ICE charger and challenger are going to be discontinued in 2024. The clown actually talked about how carbon is necessary for all life so isn't dangerous, and that the French don't care about selling "the muscle cars americans want". It doesn't matter that those cars are already dinosaurs and their owners will be getting smoked on a regular basis by plenty of faster and better BEV's by 2024.
Sorry to hear that happened to you....people are just idiots at times.
That sucks, but what would you do with the video other than just stare at it and get more angry?
People have been identified and charged with vandalizing Teslas because of Sentry Mode. If you have a good shot of their face, you can post it on social media. One woman even made the news and had to turn herself in.
