- Let's actually do a test and see if you
can guess which on is free?
The built-in Tesla one, the $40.00 option the Apeman,
and the $400.00 option the BlackVue.
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Tesla just released a new feature for version nine
of any car that's equipped with auto-pilot.
It now as the ability to be a dash cam,
well I thought that's cool but let's see how
that fairs compared to some other popular one's
out there on the market.
The first one I'm looking at here it the
BlackVue DR750S-2CH.
It has both front and rear cameras, it has this full
HD Sony STARVIS image sensor,
has a GPS logger, WIFI, cloud connectivity,
impact and motion detection.
This one is our most expensive option that
we're going to be looking at.
The BlackVue DR750S-2CH retails for just
under $400.00 and with Black Friday
and Cyber Monday coming up,
you'll likely to get it a little bit cheaper
than it previously may have cost you.
Next the contender we have is the
apeman, and this one is coming in
right around $40.00 on Amazon.
Depending again on any deals.
It's full 1080P.
It has a 170 degree super-wide angle.
It installs very easy.
It has a built-in G sensor which detects
if there's any kind of accents or anything.
It will automatically save that footage off.
It has super night vision and from personal
experience, I can say it is pretty easy to set-up.
Now, both of these dash cams will also require
that you purchase an SD card for it and
there are numerous options here.
I usually go for the SanDisk and there
are all kinds of different sizes ranging from $12.00,
probably wouldn't recommend that one,
up to $40.00 or $50.00.
You probably need something right around
the 32 GIG range to keep enough footage on there
in case you ever do need to go back,
you have enough already logged.
Now, the third option is the Tesla camera
and this is the one that's built-in
to any car that's equipped with auto-pilot,
and it came with version nine.
Which just happened recently so,
what you're looking at actually is
this middle camera right in the screen right here
of the three in the suite, it's built-in
to the car which is pretty nice but,
there are some steps that you need to do
in order for it to actually work.
First, you'll have to configure a flash drive
by formatting it in a FAT32 32system on Windows
or MS-DOS FAT file architecture on a MAC
and add a base level folder named Tesla Cam.
With a capital T and a capital C.
If you don't do that exactly right it will not work.
Then, you need to stick it in to one of the
USB flash drive ports in your Tesla model 3 or
model S or X, and then it will show up
with the dash cam icon in the car
which then you can actually use it.
So, once that's inserted you need to tap the icon
on the screen to save a ten minute video clip.
And other than that it will be constantly
recording the previous hour,
but it does recycle that so,
if you need something specifically
you do need to hit that button.
In addition, your going to lose a port
that you may have used for your phone
and the Tesla model 3 this is extra
cumbersome because there are only
two up-front were your phones go.
So, you'll need to add something like
this USB hub here in order to be able to
power your phones on the built-in charging ports.
And if you don't already have one,
SanDisk makes these really cool Ultra Fit
USB Flash Drives which are really, really, tiny.
You can see kind of just how they fit in there,
which is really nice because otherwise
they stick out quite a bit and they
maybe kicked or something else.
And if that USB drive isn't plugged in
you might lose the footage.
Now, honestly that last part is kind of a lot.
And most people probably aren't going to
want to go through all those steps but,
let's assume you have all these three
options available to you I figured let's
actually do a test and see
if you can guess which one is free,
the built-in Tesla one,
the $40.00 option the apeman,
and the $400.00 option the BlackVue.
First up we have a day-time shot here
with camera one,
you need to figure out is this the
$40.00, $400.00, or the free built-in dash cam
for the Tesla model three which this was filmed on.
Okay, heres camera two and with camera two
we'll look at the exact same shot
filmed at the same time in the Tesla model three.
I've done no color correction or any post production
or anything to these images.
And here's camera three,
again the exact same shot on the freeway
at the exact same time.
All these cameras were set up side by side.
Okay, you got it right?
Well, let's look at them all on the same screen
so you can get a really good side by side comparison.
Okay, you got it?
Let's take one more look this time at night
and I'm just going to show you all three
on the screen at the same time.
Alright, I'm sure you've figured it all out by now.
I did send a survey out to everybody on my email list,
just reall briefly before I started recording here.
And so let's take a look at what they guessed
and see who got it right.
So, out off 265 people 49% thought dash cam
one was the $40.00 choice,
and 43% said it was the $400.00 option,
and the people that chose the $40.00
option were correct.
This is in fact dash cam one,
the apeman cam and actually a pretty good split,
pretty good showing for something that is
ten times cheaper than the other option there.
As far as dash cam two goes you guessed it.
This is the free one.
This is the built-in dash cam in the Tesla model three.
I think this will get better over time
and for right now there's a lot of things
that you could talk about.
The image quality, the narrow field of view, etc, etc.
But hey, its free, it's built into your car.
It wasn't there before so I don't really think
you can knock the tails to hard on this.
And dash cam three was a split decision,
with 49% saying the $40.00 option
and 49% the exact same number of people
responding that it was the $400.00 option.
This of course was the $400.00 BlackVue camera
that I tested here in my Tesla model three,
so, real interesting that people had a hard time
distinguishing between these two.
Now, when it comes to the night time camera
people were a bit more split on this one
and everbuye seemed to guess or 58% of the
people guessed that dash cam one was in fact
the $40.00 camera and they were correct.
I actually think this is pretty dang good
for a camera that's $40 bucks you can
just pop on your windshield there.
So, yeah, good choice, good eye everyone
but surprising how good I think this
really turned out to be.
As for dash cam two,
you guys guessed it, 75% of the respondence
guessing that this was the build-in Tesla dash cam
and they were correct.
I will say one thing about it though,
is how Tesla has the exposures and everything
set up here with kind of the dynamic range
of this camera, you're able to
tell license plates pretty well.
As you see this white car come up
on the side here, you'll notice that
you can read pretty clearly and
in both of the other cameras it wasn't
nearly as easy to do that.
And for dash cam three 70% of the people
got it right, this is the $400.00 BlackVue
camera and one thing that's interesting about
what they did here is the film is pretty
grainy, the camera is actually kind of,
the ISO bumped up really high which
gives you better visability but
it does blow out some of the details.
So, interesting how they chose and
why they chose to do that over some of
the other ways you could actually have
this camera focused in this setting.
So, to recap, camera one was the
apeman $40.00 dash cam.
Camera two was the Tesla one that is built-in
and then camera three was the $400.00 or
almost $400.00 BlackVue dash cam.
Now, the dash cam for the BlackVue does
have a rear facing one as well.
I didn't include that in this footage that is
a distinct advantage and it also has
some other features like, WIFI connectivity,
GPS tracking and those kind of things but,
really what I think we're looking at here
is a magnitude of difference.
Literally a magnitude of difference in
price and so yes, this one does have
more features like that but,
you could buy several of these for the price of this one.
So, I think that if you don't have a dash cam
whatsoever $40 bucks is gonna get you
a lot of the way there.
Now if you want something that is just
top of the line and works better than
anything else out there, sixty frames a second,
all these other details.
I think the BlackVue is a great option but,
it depends on kind of your budget for
these kinds of things.
So, I'm curious how you guys did?
Leave me a comment down below
and let me know if you guessed them all right
or if you were surprised at how similar
maybe the 40 versus the $400.00 options were.
Of course, links to all these products are
in the description below in case
you or someone you love maybe for the
holiday season and is looking to get
a dash cam for their car,
all the options are there for you.
I kind of laid it out so you don't
have to look anywhere else,
you can just go right there.
Thanks again for watching and don't forget
If we free the data your mind will follow.
I'll see you guys back here next time.
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