Model 3 Backup Camera Sucks

[aaron0k]

I seriously don't understand these comments. The camera is not fantastic, but it's very much above "worst" or "terrible". The fisheye can totally be adjusted via software in the future and, in fact, i actually have come to enjoy it because you can see all the way into your blind spots on the sides if you use it when driving.

For me, it's not so much the fisheye effect... it is bad because the image is dark, grainy and lacks definition. If I do use it as a 'rear view' while driving at night; all I really see is blaring white headlight orbs vs. vehicles.

Hopefully it's software not sensor...

 

[White]

I seriously don't understand these comments. The camera is not fantastic, but it's very much above "worst" or "terrible". The fisheye can totally be adjusted via software in the future and, in fact, i actually have come to enjoy it because you can see all the way into your blind spots on the sides if you use it when driving.

I disagree. Maybe something is wrong with my camera but it is pretty much unusable in anything other than super bright sunny days.

 

[insaneoctane]

Sorry if this has been answered, but have we heard that Tesla as acknowledged the quality issues that so many are complaining about? Have they mentioned that they are planning on addressing it in an OTA?

 

[DS 5/15]

See post #17

 

[206er]

on the bright side, the M3 camera seems leaps and bounds better than my 2014 Acura ILX camera!

 

[stopcrazypp]

The fisheye effect could be largely fixed with post-processing, also looks like the exposure is off if it's always dark like that; which can also be fixed with software.

Yeah, missed this thread, but both can be compensated for in software. The only tricky part is the exposure. The AP software may prefer the current exposure and that would limit the options a bit (can still do a software based exposure adjustment, but not a true adjustment in hardware like iris and shutter speed).

 

[Pluto]

Anyone in NorCal that wants to see what I am seeing is welcome to meet up and take a look. Feel free to PM me.

I'm so tempted, just to get inside a Model 3, but I'll restrain myself :/

 

[shokunin]

My backup camera froze as if I paused the video feed for about 4 seconds today in a parking lot.

A guy was walking past my car in a parking lot and the screen froze as if the person stopped walking right behind my car, but looking in the rear-view mirror he was long past my car and down the aisle. One second there's a guy still framed, and then poof, he's gone.

 

[JoshG]

It sounds like you are not experiencing the same rough ride as K-MTG is reporting ("..feel every bump in the road.."). Do you have the 18" wheels or 19" wheels.

I have the 19". They feel good. firm, but not jarring or uncomfortable. But I like some road feel.

 

[kengchang]

A guy was walking past my car in a parking lot and the screen froze as if the person stopped walking right behind my car, but looking in the rear-view mirror he was long past my car and down the aisle. One second there's a guy still framed, and then poof, he's gone.

Headline : Tesla Model 3 captured footage of Flash

 

[dragoljub]

Here is another data point. Rainy day here in California. Backing up at night after rain looks like this.

Sure makes it hard to see.

 

[Big-T]

Has anyone with this complaint on their Model 3 actually talked to Tesla about it? Or were you thinking that complaining on the forum here would magically get Tesla's attention?

If someone has talked to Tesla, what did they say?

 

[Glamisduner]

Wow, compared to the chevy bolt's rearview mirror camera that looks like garbage. Although the bolt's fisheye backup camera isn't much better. Still, the blocked corners seems like a strange design decision.

 

[aaron0k]

Here is another data point. Rainy day here in California. Backing up at night after rain looks like this.

Sure makes it hard to see.

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To be fair, rain on the Model S camera also makes it hard to see.

 

[White]

Has anyone with this complaint on their Model 3 actually talked to Tesla about it? Or were you thinking that complaining on the forum here would magically get Tesla's attention?

If someone has talked to Tesla, what did they say?

I talked to a service guy at Sunnyvale service center and was told by a tech who owns one... "yeah mine sucks too".

 

[Pkmmte]

My backup camera froze as if I paused the video feed for about 4 seconds today in a parking lot.

A guy was walking past my car in a parking lot and the screen froze as if the person stopped walking right behind my car, but looking in the rear-view mirror he was long past my car and down the aisle. One second there's a guy still framed, and then poof, he's gone.

That sounds dangerous. Imagine if the camera had frozen with a clear view but there was actually someone walking behind...

 

[lunitiks]

I agree @Pkmmte the BUC freezing is no joke

 

[skitown]

To be fair, rain on the Model S camera also makes it hard to see.

Agreed. My 2015 S looks like this in the rain in the dark.

 

[BioSehnsucht]

Some kind of hydrophobic coating would probably help with the water droplets. I wonder if there's any kind of permanently hydrophobic lens they could use instead of the existing one...

As for the fish-eye, I'm sure a combination of fish-eye removal process along with cropping out the useless corners of the housing would do wonders, though you may end up with a letterboxed looking video since it's likely the resultant aspect ratio after correcting for fish eye won't be the same, if you're not throwing away useful visual information.

 

[insaneoctane]

I talked to a service guy at Sunnyvale service center and was told by a tech who owns one... "yeah mine sucks too".

That's not the response I was hoping for.... That sounds like it is what it is....