Does Tesla's Sentry Mode Work?

Everyone, let's take a look at Tesla's sentinel

mode

, what it

does

and whether it's really useful or not. Tesla's factory alarm system has always been quite limited in what it can do, at least in the US it has no glass break detection and will only activate if a door is opened while the car is locked, for what the cars are locked at that time and comes Sentinel Mode which seeks to improve that by using the two rear-facing side cameras and one of the front cameras along with the car's interior microphones to monitor the space around the car and Record activity as needed When activity is detected around a car, a warning will appear on the screen informing people around the car that it is currently being recorded and It will also document the things that happened up to that point, so it seems that The recording is continuous and the system should sound the alarm and send a push notification to your phone when a door is opened or a loud sound is detected like glass breaking or something hitting your car or that kind of thing, let's try it to To enable

sentry

mode

, simply open the vehicle controls, tap safety and security, scroll down to

sentry

mode and tap to enable and off we go, we're just walking around. the car to simulate how it might behave in a parking lot or some kind of similar situation, so hypothetically you wouldn't want it to activate while people are just walking by like that because well, that would be a false positive and start filling up your flash drive with random junk. , okay, this time I'll walk a little closer to the car to see if it activates, so it's probably like someone walking between closely spaced cars in a parking lot, something like that and it

does

n't seem like I triggered it, since it didn't activate at all in the last two attempts.

You could try walking a lot closer to the car, like you were squeezed between two cars in a parking lot, so I mean, maybe that triggered it, let's see here. did that, did that, no, no, it didn't, so maybe I'll try walking around to see if I can make it happen because this seems a little inconsistent in how it's triggered, no, nothing, I didn't see anything that time. that time we tried from this direction, we did that, no, a little differently, this time I tried to walk around the front of the car and then approach from the side and that I did, yes, that activated at that moment, already that sometimes we walk around the car. will activate and sometimes it won't activate the system, let me try to go through there like I did, except maybe I'll just stop and take a look, no, there we go, sentry mode activated at that moment, interesting, let's try to get close to it the driver's side rear door from the door. side and kind of hanging around here a little bit yeah it doesn't look like the system has turned on yet I'm touching no up there it turned on fine so think more things I'm learning at least about the monitoring aspect of sentry mode is that It's not just motion based, otherwise waving my hand in front of the camera like this would trigger it.

Walking next to the car would activate it, but it doesn't always do that, but what about the alarm? Let's see what triggers this general loitering around the car. It will activate sentry mode, so we'll start recording, but I could stay here and move around the car like this for as long as I want and it won't set off the alarm, similarly, things like hitting the glass and knocking the car over, this is not enough to activate the alarm, even though it makes noise, you need a fairly significant noise to activate it, it seems that even general harassment does not activate the alarm, the alarm does not activate either if you reach to grab the release the seat drop the seat take out something from the trunk and run away, however, some broke the glass and tried to get in or if someone hit their car well, then things got a little loud, that's all well and good, but what kind of real? -Global applications: Is the system right?

If someone broke any of your windows, you would receive an alert and have a video of the event on the car's flash drive. You could use it in parking lots to detect people hitting your vehicle. car while parking or dig your car door while leaving. Thank you, anyone friend in the Hilton parking lot for not doing any of those things that said the system as it's currently implemented has some deficiencies that, for example, it's not going to activate. The alarm if someone lightly touched your car or maybe even touched it a little more aggressively, however, should trigger sentry mode monitoring, so it should record what happens;

However, the system has some blind spots in camera coverage, as sentry mode is only activated. Using one of the three front cameras and it is not the widest of them, there are significant blind spots in the front corners of the car, as well as the entire rear of the car, so the system cannot see anything that is happening in the back of the car. see at all and even these weird side cameras that the system is using are pretty limited in that they can see as well as you can see here despite not being able to see in the back, although if someone were to hit the back of the car or throw something into the back of the car, the sentry mode system will activate, the alarm should go off and it will be recording, so at least you will be notified and if anyone moves into the field of view of any of the cameras after you've done those things, it will record them, maybe future testing will use the model three's interior camera for some kind of range monitoring, so that if someone were to come in through an open window, the system It would detect it and get going. the alarm maybe or maybe that would just result in a lot of false positives.

Better yet, don't leave the windows down. Another shortcoming of Sentinel Mode is its power consumption because normally when I leave this car idling I see about 1% of the power consumed per day at idle, so that's a nominal 2 to 3 miles of power consumed per day just sitting with it. sentry mode enabled; However, that jumps to about one nominal mile consumed per hour of sitting, so the car consumes about 26 nominal miles in 24 hours with Sentry Mode on and minimal system activation. I did several tests and really didn't see much difference between activating the car's recording mode frequently and leaving the car alone.

It still ran for about a nominal mile per hour of sitting with sentry mode on. and some napkin math that's probably somewhere in the ballpark of a 240 to 250 watt continuous load. Ivan went a little too deep into how Tesla manages power usage between the 12-volt system and the high-voltage pack on the Model 3, but my suspicion is that it's entirely possible that running sentry mode frequently could add a lot of cycles to the lettuce, a 12 volt battery that powers most electronic systems in cars, so yeah, that's not great, but I could be wrong anyway, that's all for this video.

Elon has hinted at future improvements to Sentinel Mode, like being able to exclude

work

or exclude home or having it ask you every time you park the car if you want to enable the system, that sort of thing, let me know what you think about Sentinel Mode in Comments below and what kind of features you would like to see added to sentinel mode as always, don't forget to rate and subscribe and see you later, tip your car, it's okay.