PITA
Model 3 Performance
Yeah, my neighbours are nice too. Though one of them is VW Golf obsessed and has never forgiven me for selling my old e-Golf, so who knows what he'll make of the Tesla!
Haha... yeah, I hear you on the kind of scrotes who key cars being perfectly happy to be caught on camera so they have some footage to post to their TikTok and laugh about with their mates. Can't hurt to have a camera though. The one I have my eye on has a floodlight in it as well, so the bright light will draw their attention to it, and once they look at it they'll see it has a very obvious camera lens. So I'm hoping it will at least deter any of the camera shy ones.
I'm into Apple HomeKit stuff, so that's the route I'll be going for it. I already have a HomeKit doorbell camera (doesn't really cover where the car is parked though sadly), and agree with your assessment that it is mainly good at spotting animals! When I got my first "an animal has been spotted!" notification and opened the recording excitedly, only to see my neighbour's cat walk nonchalantly into shot, look around a bit, then wander off again I realised that feature is probably more useful in countries where they have man-eating bears and things like that
We have a 'Sentry Cat' which is adopted to patrol my Powerwalls at night. I always sleep well when Sentry Cat is on patrol