WEBVTT - Dash Cams 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.600 Welcome to Car Stuff, a production of I Heart Radio's 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:09.520 How Stuff Works. Hi, and welcome to Car Stuff. I'm 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:12.240 your host Scott Benjamin. I am Ben Bolan, and I 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:15.680 am Kurt Garren. And today, Oh you know what, actually, 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:17.880 before we even get into our topic, yeah, as I 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:19.880 was going to jump right in there both feet. But 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.160 but I think there's something that we had talked about 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:23.919 on the last show that I think we still have 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:26.760 to address, and that is your brand new car. Pen 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:29.280 you're in you're new to you car, right, my new 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:31.280 to me car, So tell us what it is. And 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:33.080 you've been in this thing for about a week, so 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:35.239 tell us a little bit about it. Did we did? 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:37.640 We mentioned that did we meant not talk about this 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:39.879 people week? So we we've talked about what it was, 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:41.680 but you were a day away from picking it up. 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:47.080 So I took possession on a seventeen Ford Escape, a 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:49.400 little over sixty thous miles on it. But I got 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:54.920 a great deal. So I I am currently seller trying 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.480 to sell my Monte Carlo. That's a whole different bag 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.360 of badgers, But so far I really enjoy it. You 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:02.560 know how it is if you've owned older cars for 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:04.759 a while, first off, Also, never buy a brand new 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.119 car if you've driven around older cars for a while. 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.000 It feels like the freaking future when you hop into 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:15.119 anything that's built. More recently, I was looking into escapes 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:20.160 because I did a fantastic, blazing road trip from Atlanta 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:24.840 to New Orleans and back in a Ford Escape. There 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:27.919 was a hybrid, and to be honest, I probably killed 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:31.839 the hybrid uh with a little bit of a lead foot. 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:35.440 On the way back to Atlanta. I shaved a probably 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.200 about an hour off whatever the average drive time would be. 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:41.640 You're gonna say your life, Well, I I may be 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.000 shaved a may have shaved a few days off my 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.320 girlfriend's life. She was not happy with my driving the 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.720 scary trip. Well, we had places to be, yeah, I had. 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.400 I had an appointment in Atlanta at that time. Anyway, 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.560 But this car, this car is need and it's weird 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.880 when you start driving in um you know again in 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:59.680 newer vehicles. Is the first car I've ever had that 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:04.080 has a backup camera that I'm like, maybe learning to trust, 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:05.800 but I still have to you know, I still have 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.840 to pop my hand over the shotgun seat and do 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.639 the turnaround. You're living in the future. Man, because I've 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:15.200 I've you know, driven relatives cars that have backup cams 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:17.799 and they've only been around for like ten years now, 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.359 but none of my cars have ever had them. But 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:22.920 but that is definitely a futuristic thing, and it's tough 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.760 to it's tough to get accustomed to trusting that is. 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.240 I don't think I will. I'm gonna be honest with you, 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:29.880 I think I'm always going to have to do a 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.519 physical eye check. I don't use it, but I want 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:37.440 to make sure curtaining experience with a backup cam very little. 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:39.959 Maybe in a rental car, yeah, every now and then. 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:43.000 But do you trust it? No, Because when you look 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.840 at the screen, I just I can't get used to 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.400 what I'm seeing exactly, Like looking to the right and 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.280 the left. You have to just you have to be 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.720 familiar with the visual that the screen gives you in 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.120 order to get a good feel about what's to the 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:57.639 right or left of the car. And you can see 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.839 behind you, great, but then this little fish i'de off 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.160 to the sides. Yeah, you don't get a good sense 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.640 of distance and size or even if what it is. 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.560 It's always good to look like there's nothing coming from 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.760 the left except a greyhound. It's just and you're like, oh, 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:14.480 that's not a dog, that's a that's painting on the 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:16.760 side of a bus. If I yeah, if I had 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.760 a it's a terrible joke. You're working life. So if 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:22.680 I had if I had like a kid or a 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:26.080 new driver, and I was, uh, letting them learn that 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.080 sort of stuff, then I would probably do the old 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.919 you know, parking lot of a school on a weekend 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.560 kind of thing and be like, all right, just turn 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.160 on that back camera and just go in circles. Well, 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.720 use that to drive. So aside from aside from the 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.320 backup camera, what's your overall impression of this thing? I mean, 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.480 is it you It's like it's like future. Oh you 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.600 do love it? Okay, So you're not like it, are you? 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.560 Are you still reminiscing about what it was like to 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.240 drive the money car lot? Yeah? I kind of thought 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.920 you would. Absolutely, So anything that you're looking forward to, Oh, 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.480 have you jumped it yet? Have you jumped? I jumped? 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.240 Come on, you've had it like two weeks now. What's 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:08.000 going on? Uh? Yeah, not yet. OK. I'm doing a 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.960 lot of I broke out my old map where I 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.640 have the you know about this, and it's gotta have 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:17.159 these concentric circles where I mapped out how long it 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.800 takes to drive somewhere and back. So that and I've 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.000 had this since I started driving, so that I could 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.360 figure out, you know, if I have forty eight hours 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.680 and I cut in like of that forty eight hours, 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.600 I cut in six hours of sleep every twenty four hours, 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.159 then how far can I get? How far can I 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:36.800 come back? Right? How how obviously want to get in 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.839 that time? We'll see, man. It's also it becomes, uh, 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:44.080 it transcends habit into addiction. But I've got some cool 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.600 day trips lined up. I've got one really close by 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:48.880 the way. This weekend as we're recording it. I'm taking 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:53.600 some of our colleagues up to a Hindu temple in Georgia. 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:57.560 It's it's pretty neat, it's legit, man, And also, you know, 0:04:57.720 --> 0:04:59.960 I'm still a cheap skate. It's also free to go. 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.360 So it's like if you ever, you know, Scott, if 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:06.120 you want to you want to get the kids some 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:10.040 culture on a on a little day trip, It's it's 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.880 very reasonable to get there. And they've got a got 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:17.200 a cool temple. They've got a they've got a can 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.239 I say kick ass? They have a kick ass gift shop, 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.320 A little snap shot. The only thing they ask is that, 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.920 you know, you have to not wear shoes in the temple. 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.760 You have to not speak in the temple, a rule 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:31.520 that is regularly disregarded by children. I should I should mention. 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:33.920 And the third one, the third rule, which might be 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.800 a little weird, is they they ask you not to 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:42.640 bring meat onto the premises. And it's worded in such 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.440 a way that, like you ever read laws or rules 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.919 and you think, what the heck happened? I feel like 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.960 some somebody must have run in there just like covered 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.240 in barbecue sauce and ribs or something. Because they're very 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.520 hardcore about the meat thing, and that's literally the only thing. 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:01.280 They're very hardcore. Surely can bring beef turkey, and it's 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.640 got to be exception to the will ask cured meat 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.080 this weekend. I will ask to dried meat, and you 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.080 can put in your pocket. It's gotta be all right. 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.000 Oh yeah, I'm like, oh me, this is just my pocket, jock. 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:15.480 It's just this pepperoni way that it came with the pants. Yeah. Um, 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.599 but yeah, long answer, short man, yeah, I am really 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.719 happy to be back on the road. Is are there 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.919 other cars that I would you know that that I 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.279 would want? Well, sure, they're always going to be other 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.640 cars I got. I got close to, I got close 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:34.039 to making some less well informed decisions, let's say, because 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.159 you know how it is, like it's an emotional decisions sometimes, yeah, 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.479 and you're making it. Whenever you're making a big purchase. 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.160 You know, there are all kinds of psychological factors that 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.800 come into play where you think, for instance, I'm just 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.200 I'm making up numbers, right, But let's say you're gonna 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.880 pay You're getting some super high end car and it's 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.320 like eighty thou dollars, and then you see another car 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:57.120 and it's thousand. But by the time you're already spending 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.440 eighty grand, you're like, well, how much is it? You know, 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.040 what a price can you put on happiness? Right? And 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.680 go back and you try to persuade your significant other 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.840 that you're not crazy. You know, we've all been in 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:11.440 some variation of sure. So it's here's the thing, though, 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.200 we've also been whenever we buy a car new to 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:18.480 us or brand new, new or used whatever, we always 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:22.360 know that there are some owner modifications we have to 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.520 make right. It could be something as simple as, you know, 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:29.640 getting some tuning done, getting some wheels that you prefer. 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.720 It could be oh god, like, what's that stuff? I 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.000 hate rain X? You know, like it's time to put 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:40.560 the rain X on and Scott Scott on the sea. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.360 you know, all all those little things. But one thing 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.480 that I've been considering, and I am not alone in this, 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:50.000 one thing I've been considering adding to this new car 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.760 would be dash camps front and back, nicely done. I 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.440 would as well enjoy a dash cam. I don't know 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.360 if I wanted all the time though, And I've got 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.800 kind of a few stipy lations that would have to 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:02.920 be in place, I guess before I ever purchased one. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.440 Maybe we'll discuss those at some point. But what about you, Kurt, 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.640 do you think you would ever go for a dash cam? Yeah, 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.960 especially after doing a little research for this conversation here, Yeah, exactly. 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.160 And we're going to talk about some interesting things in 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.560 this kind in this podcast that maybe people haven't really 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:20.880 considered when they're looking at the dash came because I mean, 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:22.840 we've we've all seen dash cam footage that's you know, 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:27.160 either one it's either hilarious, right, or you're watching something 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.160 that is well, it's practically like tragedy unfolded in front 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.040 of you. If you happen to see one that's like that. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:36.520 You see some interesting things like newsworthy things you find, um, well, 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.400 you know what, maybe maybe we should just let some 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.240 of these go until we until we actually get to them, 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.760 because there's some there's some other twist to this whole 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.200 thing that I find fascinating in some ways that you 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.400 can use dash cams either to your advantage or maybe 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:54.240 even to your disadvantage as well. Will discuss. But we've 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.319 probably we've got we wanted to do a show on 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.400 dash cams for a long time. It's not like their 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.960 brand new technology of course. And I know we've talked 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.520 about you know, dash camp footage that we've seen, you know, 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.920 some some funny some unique things that we've seen or 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:08.800 just in passing, you know, nothing really in depth, but 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.200 um we have really talked about like you know, who 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.439 needs them, or how much they cost or what they 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:17.199 do or you know, the real the intent behind them, 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.680 the real purpose behind them. So there's a lot of 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.080 angles here that we just have never covered over the 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:23.920 over the past years. I mean, I know we've we've 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.360 again just touched on a few things, but we've never 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.120 really talked about them in one complete show. And I 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:32.000 think with Kurt here and with Ben here and myself, 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.480 we should be able to have a pretty decent discussion 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.640 about what we've seen, what we know about them. Um. 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.800 I don't know if this is necessarily the place, and 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.440 I hope I'm not reigning on anybody's parade here when 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:44.000 I say that, I don't think we're gonna, like, you know, 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.559 recommend one specific model for you to get that that's 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.000 the best one or anything like that. This technology changes 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.160 relatively quickly, just like you would expect. There might be 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.440 some that are that are recommended by certain websites like 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.240 c net or you know, any consumer consumer guide or 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.160 you know places like that that might say the is 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.320 the best one right now for the its price point, 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.040 and that's fine. We can talk about those. And there's 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.920 such a variety of price point, Oh there really are. Yeah. 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:10.079 That's another thing is is the incredible right of prices. 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.040 I think Kurt and I were talking off air about 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.080 the gap between the lowest and the highest price one 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.480 that I was able to find. It's it's uh, it's immense, 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.000 it's a huge difference, but what you get is also 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.480 completely different, So we can we can dive into all this, 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.480 but I think that it's something that's it's worthwhile talking 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.559 about because it seems like we would all benefit from 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.880 something like this, I mean almost everybody. And Ben you 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.600 had mentioned to me off air as well that UM 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.280 and and a Kurt that you almost see this as 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:40.680 becoming like maybe a UM have required feature on cars. 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:44.320 Absolutely that is mandated, right, And the reason yeah, yeah, 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:46.960 And the reason I feel that's a solid bed is 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:51.040 because of the rise of onboard camera technology that we 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:54.800 already have for you know, parking assistance, like a rear 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:59.960 view camera. Right. Also in terms of insurance and determin 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:05.000 need liability, it's it's a no brainer for insurance companies. 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.160 The way that I would see it happening is I 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:13.240 would see I would see certain models or types of 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:18.520 dash cams being incentivized by private insurance companies. So it's 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.760 just like a lot of these uh, insidious kind of 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.679 overarching systems. It rarely starts out as something you have 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.600 to do. It starts out as something you can opt into. 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.760 For a discount, right and then a few years later 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:37.800 the discount becomes less and less important because the true 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:42.360 cost of insurance in everybody's head is the cost of 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.120 insurance that you pay when you have a dash cam. 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.040 Because of course you would why wouldn't you, of course 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.800 normalize it. That's what I think is happening. It's going 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.640 to become normalized technology. I think, yeah, I really think so. 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.080 I mean, but right now, I think about who needs 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.880 these right now? For for my short list of people 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.320 that needs them, and it's probably includes everybody really, but 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:05.360 for now, you know, truck drivers, fleet owners, bus drivers, 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:08.680 anybody that drives for maybe a shared ride company like 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.920 Uber or Lift. You know those drivers they need them. 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.920 They point them the opposite direction to uh point inside 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.199 the vehicle for safety, so they use them as well 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.360 taxi drivers of course. Um. And then the general idea 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.320 is that you know, you get this camera that that 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:24.720 records a wide angle of view. A lot of times 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.280 you'll see the the angle as one of the selling 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:29.880 features on the on the cameras typically like a hundred 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.680 and seventy degrees, So you get a wide angle and 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.520 it's just a constant recording of of what's happening in 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:38.560 front of the vehicle or wherever that lens happens to 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:40.880 be pointing, if it might be pointing inside the vehicle, 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:44.640 as we said for a share driver. But you also 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:46.720 could have multiple cameras on the car. You could have 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.960 all all different variations of this. But you know, so 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.319 these views are all from you know, one or more viewpoints. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.680 And as Ben said, this could be extremely valuable for 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.680 insurance companies if they decided that, you know, if you 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.000 have a dash cam on your car, we're gonna get 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:01.880 of view a bit of a cut rate on your 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.199 premium for the next six months or the next year 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.280 or whatever, as long as you keep that on and 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.440 make that available to us if there is an accident, 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.840 if there is a problem, and uh, and of course 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.200 you would agree. You have to agree to that, you know. 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.520 I guess once that's all in place, you can again 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.480 count on that benefit coming through, even though you have 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.560 to invest in the technology to begin with, or if 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.720 you're lucky enough, maybe you've got a car that already 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.600 has this built in, because there are cars that have 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.880 systems built in that will do this already. Now I 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:32.280 would have to assume that this encompasses almost any car 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.640 right now that is claiming to be driverless, any car 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.720 that is claiming to have an autonomous mode. Because the 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:40.800 one in particular I'm thinking of is one that we've 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.520 seen in recent news and maybe the two of you 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.840 have also seen this. But there's something in the Tesla 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:51.440 models that's called Centry mode. If you heard Tesla center mode. Okay, 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.520 so this is uh something that uses the Tesla cam 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:57.160 videos I guess as a dash cam footage, and Centry 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.240 mode is something is a mode that you can put 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.520 the car in that again uses the cameras. And there 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:05.400 are eight cameras in total on the new Tesla model, 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.560 so there's a lot of them. I mean they're forward facing, 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.880 rearward facing, you know, left right that you know, it's 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:12.800 it's they're all over the place. These these cameras. You 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:14.320 can look up the locations if you want, but they 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:18.480 capture video of vandals that might be up to no 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.920 good around your vehicle. And it does this in a 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.760 pretty cool fashion. I think. Um I've watched some people 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.560 try to trigger the system. You know, just see what 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.440 it takes to activate this system, because you have to 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:31.840 put your car into centry mode. It's not going to 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.200 automatically do that, and you do have to they say 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.920 install the dash cam, but it's not really installing, it 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.760 is just more like having access to it. So there's 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:41.800 very specific steps you have to go through in order 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.840 to set up your Tesla cam system in order to 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:46.400 make it work this way. But if you have a 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:50.320 Tesla car that was built after August of any of 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.440 these models, the Model three, the Model S, or the 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.240 Model X, you will have that feature available to you 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.120 as of February of two thousand nineteen, so you can 0:14:58.160 --> 0:14:59.680 activate this, but again you have to go through the 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:01.400 process us to be able to do. It's very effective, 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.160 but it does activate all these cameras when there is 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.360 a presence noted around your vehicle that looks like they're 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.680 up to no good. And it's funny to watch, you know, 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.800 the videos, and you can watch them on YouTube or 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.720 whatever video platform you want, but you'll see an owner 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.320 trying to trigger his own sentry mode, you know, trying 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.960 to trigger the camera, and sometimes it works, sometimes it 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:21.960 doesn't work. So it's kind of comical, you know, like 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.080 what works, Like, all right, I'm I'm pretending as if 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.240 I'm walking through a parking lot next to my car, 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.200 and you know, he said his driveway doing this like 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.720 I'm walking next to the parking a parked car here 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:32.960 doesn't turn on, but he'll stop and look in the 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.320 window of the car and it will turn on. It'll 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.040 activate it. And one of the most clever things about 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.520 this is that the cameras pick up you know, all 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:42.480 of them activate, and you know, it picks up audio 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.440 and everything. The really cool part about this is that 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:47.600 it's always recording anyway. So if you've got it in 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.800 the centry mode. Let's say that an action happens, like 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:52.920 someone bumps into your car in the parking lot and 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:54.680 they leave. You know that it happens a lot. You know, 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.520 they'll open the door into it or park you know, parking, 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.560 they may bump your bumper. What's really cool about this 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:04.640 is that the recording is actually beginning there. The recording 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:09.680 that you're accessing is recording ten minutes before the action 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:13.720 was detected. So it's because it's continually going, it recognizes 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.600 that moment when something happens, that's the moment that it 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:20.000 actually activates and turns on. But you get video and 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.280 audio from ten minutes prior to that because of the 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.680 continuous record, which is smart. You know. I like that 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:29.080 because we've all been at least adjacent to a situation 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:32.760 where we see a bumper, like a little a little 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.000 bit of paint has lost on one bumper another it's 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:38.880 a parking lot. Someone misjudged the distance or something, or 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:43.600 someone was jerk with a shopping cart. I saw something 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.440 years ago on the internet and this was a true story. 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:50.000 So somebody got their car hit and then they came 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.440 out of you know whatever story they were in, and 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:56.080 they see this little like piece of notebook paper on 0:16:56.120 --> 0:17:00.320 the windshield. And this person said, Hi, I'm sorry bumped 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:03.840 into your car. I don't have any money, uh, and 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.040 I'm not gonna give you any of my information. But 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:09.880 somebody saw it happen. So I'm writing this note and 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:14.280 I was like, Wow, that's it's pretty cold. That's pretty cold. 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.840 A sociopath is out there in the parking lot of 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.960 the bed bath and beyond or whatever. Also, you know, 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.840 you're captured on on surveillance cameras. You're gonna get caught. 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:39.160 My conscious wouldn't allow this. Yeah, there are people out 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:42.760 there who will rationalize doing completely irresponsible things. And that's 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:48.000 why I think it's better for everybody if we all 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:51.520 have dash cams as stick because I do have some concerns. 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:55.000 But um, to step back. You know, one thing we 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:59.280 didn't say the way that a way that a dash 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.600 cam is to biically gonna work. It's gonna be uh, 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:04.600 it's not going to be as fancy as the testlas 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:09.800 centry mode that's like very high end. Instead it's going 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:13.760 to be something like a small thing mounted on your windshield, 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:16.879 often with a suction cup, right um, and some you 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:21.359 can use permantent adhesive on. But it's a commitment, especially 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:23.960 if it breaks or you want to upgrade. To your 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:27.479 point Scott about how fast the technology is evolving. And 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:32.760 then it typically records on micro SD card, right yeah, 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:37.119 some sort of internal or external type of storage. And 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:41.320 then you have to be careful because in many of 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.520 these devices the footage will just be collected until that 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.520 card is at capacity, and then it'll just loop and 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.040 start erasing everything. Yeah, it starts to rewrite the old 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.919 files and so old videos are often recorded over unless 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:56.520 you stop them. If there's an event to some sort, 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:58.760 you know, an accident or you know, in occurrence of 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.159 whatever that you want to see like maybe maybe we 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:02.919 were driving home and you know, a deer in in 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:04.280 front of you, in front of your car and it 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:05.960 was so close you couldn't believe it. But then you 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:07.400 want to check the footage of being home to see 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:09.800 how close it really was. Just you know, something cool 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.080 like that might have happened, or you might have witnessed 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:13.960 an accident and you want, you know, that person to 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:16.919 uh have some sort of benefit from your foot at 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:18.840 your file footage. You know, you can you can offer 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:20.800 that to them if you wanted to, or you know, 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:22.640 it could be something that you're involved in as well. 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.240 It could be that it could just be a picturesque drive. 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:27.560 Maybe you want something kind of cool to upload if 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.439 you're driving the Tail, the Dragon or something like that, 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.600 some really interesting road or um, you know, some somewhere 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.160 like that. Now we've we've seen, you know, people use 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.520 go pros for this for a long long time, but 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:40.960 it's slightly different. The go pros just record until the 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.320 battery is dead or you know, the space is filled up. 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:45.600 And their thirsty beasts, Yeah, they really are. I mean 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:47.639