Once it is plugged in, the vehicle should recognize it and a dashcam icon appears in the status bar at the top of your touchscreen.Īt that point, the dashcam automatically begins recording and you can control the dashcam by pressing the icon. The drive needs a manually created folder called “TeslaCam” and be plugged into one of the front USB ports.
You need a small USB flash drive with “as much available storage as possible”, and it needs to be formatted in FAT32. The owner’s manual indicates that the feature is only available for vehicles with Autopilot 2.5 (starting at around August 2017).
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Refer to the owner’s manual for details on how to use Dashcam.” Note that you must manually add a base level folder in the flash drive called “TeslaCam” (without quotation marks) before it can be used for Dashcam. “You can now record and store video footage captured by the car’s forward facing camera onto a USB flash drive. Tesla wrote about the feature in the release notes of this version: One pushed to the Model 3 has already leaked, and the second one is similar – though it includes the new dashcam feature. Now we’ve got our first look at how it works thanks to an Electrek source.Ī source familiar with Tesla’s version 9 software update told Electrek that there are two versions of the new update currently rolling out. Earlier today, we got our first look at Tesla’s new version 9 software update on Model 3, but it didn’t have the promised dashcam feature using Autopilot cameras.