Tesla Bringing Dashcam, Sentry Clips to Touchscreen

A tweet from a members of Tesla’s Early Access program hints at an upcoming “Dashcam Viewer” feature that allows drivers to view Sentry and Dashcam clips on the touchscreen.

Tesla cars have integrated cameras that are able to record dash views, as well as possible threats like a vandal or hit-and-run from any angle.

Eshak Mir shared a photo of the release notes from version 2020.12.5.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1245968207338328065

Here’s how Tesla describes the feature:

Dashcam ViewerWatch saved Dashcam clips or Sentry Mode events from the touchscreen with the Dashcam Viewer. To launch, tap the Dashcam icon in the status bar and select “Launch Viewer” while the car is in PARK. If the car is in DRIVE, you will continue to save a clip by tapping the icon.To view saved clips and events stored on your USB drive, tap the Menu icon in the upper left corner of the viewer. Each video is organized by location, date and thumbnail for easy access. For additional filtering options, tap the “Dashcam” or “Sentry” tabs.Select a clip or event to play the corresponding video. To select video from a particular camera, tap the associated thumbnail marked Front, Rear, Left or Right. Play, pause, or scroll by using the video controls at the bottom of the player. To delete a video, tap the trash icon in the bottom right corner of the video player.

Tesla owners previously needed find a way to view the clips on another device, such as transferring the clips to a hard drive to transfer to a computer. The ability to view clips on Tesla’s high-quality screen will be a welcomed feature.

 

[mvdsteen]

I wish Tesla would spend more effort in adding features that add to autonomous driving and that would add to real improvements on already existing AI.
I miss the option that my Tesla X (HW 2.5) merges naturally, meaning when I want it to merge, that it does look for a space in the lane I want to go to, accelerates or decelerates to it and the use the blinker to indicate it wants to go there and finally does the merge. We all do this naturally, but my TX doesn't do anything near like this (I am living in The Netherlands). It would make the use of my TX on a highway a lot better.
Since a few months, the Tesla does automatically accelerate. I do not understand why, but when it thinks it might go at 120 km/h, it sometimes decides to do so and I experience an acceleration from 80 to 120, without me even asking for it! Very unsafe.
And about the rain detection, it would be a camera that works with AI (instead of a rain sensor). It is "in beta" for all the 15 months that I have the car, and I can confirm it is "in beta". Still not good and missing a lot of times the moments that it should work.
And the recognition of trucks. They appear clearly as grey trucks in my personal console screen, but every time I overtake them, they are sort of dancing back and forward next to me until they disappear. This to me shows that the AI of my TX is not capable of reliably detecting trucks, and that means that all automatic functions (starting from adaptive cruise control) can sometimes result in unexpected behaviour when trucks are near to me (for instance when a truck is 2 lanes to my left, sometimes my care does not want to merge 1 lane to the left since it 'sees' a truck sometimes).
To my feeling, Tesla is not capable of really improving the issues I have, since during all the time I have the MX I see no improvement, only updates that bring me Netflix on screen while charging, games to play, karaoke in the car, supervision while parked etc etc. They are not making me happy with these kind of updates anymore.