- So there's a really cool feature on the Tesla
that I've been wanting to have for a long time.
And I just am not smart enough to figure it out.
I'm at the Supercharger in St. George, Utah.
If you're driving between Colorado, Northern Utah,
Idaho going towards Las Vegas or Southern California,
this is the only Supercharger
or if you're going to Zion National Park,
this is the only one.
I found out that one of my YouTuber,
Tesla tuber friends is driving
from Colorado to California to race his Tesla,
and I thought this is gonna be a perfect time
for him to show me and to show you guys
how we actually do this.
- Wassup. - [Daniel] This is Erik.
You can see his YouTube channel right there, DAErik.
One time we took a blow torch to some mannequins.
(blow torch blazing)
(screams)
- [Daniel] Do you know how to set up the camera
so that I can do the dash cam.
- Oh, totally, easy.
- Everything on a Tesla is crazy easy it's like.
- Yeah.
- Everything is intuitive and makes sense.
(farts) - Stop.
(laughs)
- But then I plug the thing in and there's no options
for it. - Yo.
- And then I google like a YouTube video
and within, there was a video about a minute
into this guy had a PC. - We will need a laptop.
- [Daniel] Okay yes. - But it's okay I got.
- [Daniel] I can bring mine.
I brought mine. - Oh you have one, oh perfect.
(fast paced beats)
- [Daniel] Alright so I brought my laptop.
- [Erik] Sweet.
- If you guys want to set up your dash cam
I entirely recommend doing it,
the other day, well actually it
was like the third week the Tesla Model 3s were out,
a Tesla Model 3 got rear ended by this Lexus,
right to the left of me, right at the same intersection
the trunk popped open on the Model 3
and I was like oh I wish I would have had that on camera
but even more so if you get hit by somebody
how nice to have the footage,
you already have the camera there,
everything is there you just need a USB stick,
one of these little guys right here, this thing
and you have to format this in some way
with a laptop and it's supposedly, I don't know.
Erik's gonna walk us through the steps
and we'll see how this thing works.
First thing we've got the computer.
- You wanna open up your file manager,
plug this guy in, one thing you will wanna do
is make sure your flash stick, USB flash stick
is formatted to FAT 32.
- FAT 32 baby.
- [Erik] So here we are on the USB stick.
- [Daniel] Okay.
- [Erik] And then what we would go ahead and do
in hear we're gonna do a new folder
and we're just gonna label that TeslaCam
all one word, hit enter.
- [Daniel] Okay. - [Erik] Eject it,
plug it into your car and boom should work.
- What that's it? - [Erik] That's it.
- Why do you even have to do that?
Why do you need to make a folder that says TeslaCam?
- So I agree, it would be super nice
and convenient if they would just make
it so any stick you plug in automatically
just puts that source file right there.
And then you can plug it in to either one
of these slots right here.
- [Daniel] Something is supposed to come up?
- [Erik] On here, you'll see a little camera icon
as soon as it recognizes.
- [Daniel] Oh there it is.
- Right there and so the little red.
(laughter) means it's recording.
- [Daniel] What!
- And if you ever wanna save a clip
you just tap on it, you'll hear an audible note
and that will save the last 10 minutes
into a separate file so it doesn't override it.
And if you wanted to cancel it like say you're,
I don't know what you would be doing,
say you're doing something and you don't wanna record it,
you can actually press and hold it
until it blinks a little bit and it will go gray
and that means the USB stick is in there,
it's just not actively recording.
- How big of an SD card, or not SD card,
USB stick whatever, mine is only 64 gigabytes.
- [Erik] Yup. - Is that okay?
- Oh yeah totally.
You can do pretty much anything you want
but if you're using a Windows computer,
you might need some other software to format it in FAT 32.
That can be tricky anything over 32 gigs.
- If you don't this set up, go get one of these,
they're cheap, you can buy them on Amazon,
at Best Buy, you can even get some,
he was telling me that it's like really, really small
so they don't stick out as much on there.
I can't believe I waited this long to do it
and I need to do it to the other car
so I'm definitely gonna do it.
I'm gonna be recording on both cars
and I need to teach my wife that if something happens
that's either really, really cool
or really, really bad like she gets an accident,
I hope she doesn't.
- I feel so dangerous right now.
If we both die the kids daddy, the kids.
- She pushes that button 'cause even if you get
in the accident it's not like it's still recording,
you still have to push the button.
It's like the slow mo guys, they push
the button after something cool happens,
that only goes back six seconds,
on this one it goes back 10 minutes.
Do you use, do you have USBs in everyone of your cars?
- Yeah, so I actually do separate dash cams in all my cars.
It records front and rear, front in 4K, rear in 1080.
Mainly because the Tesla cam is nice don't get me wrong.
It's great in an emergency situation you need
to prove fault, anything like that but unfortunately
it's not super high res, I think it's only 720
and so if you're looking for license plates,
hit and run stuff like that, it's not gonna be the greatest.
- But you still use it, so you have like
double coverage on the front? - [Erik] Exactly.
- Okay that's good to know if you really
wanna have really high quality camera
on there you might have to get separate one on there.
I'm probably too lazy to do that,
I mean it took me like six months to even
put this in here and I needed help from the Tesla expert.
Now the other thing that Tesla just came out with
is the sentry mode which is like
this security system that utilizes all the cameras
and records if somebody breaks the window.
Would this be the same thing that we would use for it?
- Same thing.
To activate it on the app you just hit controls,
sentry mode, enable that and now if we go play with it,
it will like pop up the red eye on the screen
and say sentry mode so if you like
kind of run around it or you jiggle the car.
- [Daniel] Yeah. - [Erik] Anything like
that it will alert that and start manually recording.
- [Daniel] What about in model S, do you have it on there?
- [Erik] So model S doesn't have it yet unfortunately.
- I wish there was a way that I get the updates
a little easier.
My car is parked at the house every day
and it needs to be on wifi for some of the bigger ones,
and then it automatically triggers it.
- [Erik] Yeah. - Sometimes I'll get it
for one Tesla model X and then it's like a month
or two later and get the update for the other one,
it's super random.
- Yeah and Elearn actually even stated
in a tweet that they're gonna make it
so that you can request it through the phone app.
Just hasn't happened yet, I think they've
been a little busy with the Y.
- Alright, well I am so glad that Erik came through
and he is going to be racing this performance Model 3,
and making a bunch of modifications to make
the thing lighter, have better ceramic breaks,
little modifications that you can do
so you can have that edge.
And so go checkout his channel, I'll link it after this
and you can go watch some of the fun
madness that he is doing.
Thanks for your help.
- No problem happy to help.
(blow torch blazing)
(laughs)