Sentry mode records to local storage. It’s pretty difficult to recover data from a pile of ashes.
Comment on How exactly are people lighting Teslas on fire?
alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days agoI once read an article many years about how arsonists were burning expensive cars in Berlin. The journalist indeed reported that they would light barbecue starters under the tires.
If I recall correctly, they would even place it a little bit further under the car (i.e. not the outside) so that any passerbys wouldn’t notice anything until the tire was properly burning.
This was before Tesla’s though, which have a sentry mode
With the more recent cases, I have read that they smash the windows and throw Molotov cocktails inside, but I think that would draw a lot of attention and make alarms go off.
On the other hand, I think this method might have less risk of the sentry mode filming.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Filming only helps so much though. Cover your face and anything identifying, wear clothes from a thrift store, put a pebble in your shoe (to force you to walk differently) etc, and it’s pretty hard to link you to anything without some solid evidence.
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Leave the phone also.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Good point. I didn’t think to add that because I rarely carry my tracking devices with me.
BeefPiano@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Be sure to read the full story of how people are being caught.
Automatic license plate readers are everywhere.
baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 6 days ago
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