Elon Musk Explains Camera Inside Tesla Model 3

Elon Musk, President and CEO of Tesla, said a camera above the Model 3's rearview mirror was designed for the moment when the car could eventually operate as a stand-alone taxi. "This is the moment we enter into competition with Uber / Lyft," wrote the CEO on Twitter in response to a person raising privacy concerns about the camera. "If someone damages your car, you can watch the video." This could also improve the Sentry mode of the car to keep an eye on animals and thieves.

Musk first talked about his plan for Tesla cars to form an autonomous fleet of ridesharing, in 2016, when he released the company's "Blueprint, Part Two", which aims to Allow Tesla owners to earn money by renting them as carpool vehicles. The result, he hopes, is to reduce "dramatically" the cost of ownership of the car "to the point that almost everyone could own a Tesla."

In one follow up TweetMusk confirmed that the equipment for renting a car of this kind is already present in the cars that the company produces today and that it is "only a question of software finishing and regulatory approval. In May of last year, Musk predicted that the feature, which will combine "Uber Lyft and AirBnB", will be ready by the end of 2019.

The CEO added once the feature is finally activated, the cars will include an option to disable the internal camera. In the meantime, the camera will be turned off permanently.

In addition to keeping an eye on passengers in your absence, Musk also said that the internal camera "could be used to supplement the cameras on [the] apart from [the] vehicle because he can see through the windows on the 2nd side and the rear window. This is a feature that could predictably extend Senla's Sentry mode function by recording thieves during a burglary. "The Sentry mode is barely at V1.0. Will improve a lot in the months to come, "said Musk in a follow-up tweet.

Musk's tweets arrived the same day that a judge ordered the CEO to resolve his ongoing dispute with the SEC, suggesting that he had not intended to stop discussing publicly forthcoming Tesla projects on Twitter. The SEC blamed Musk for making market-sensitive statements on Twitter without the prior approval of an in-house lawyer.

Given Musc's propensity to make bold predictions and timidly discontinued thereafter – as for example at that time, a Tesla would be able to cross the country by 2018 or sell a model 3 of 35 $ 000 in 2016 bet on the feature that comes this year. This will require regulatory approval, which moves much more slowly than Silicon Valley. Nevertheless, Musk has promised to provide more details on this feature during a live webcast on April 22.