Arlo Go 2 camera available for electric cars?

[Rkay321]

Arlo cameras in EV cars- Great idea, or what.  The battery wouldn’t be needed, because the car battery powers it. I have actually used the original Arlo Go camera in my car as a watch dog, when I park my car in locations that are questionable, especially while on vacation, etc.  

Arlo might wanna contact Tesla, Ford, and Gm to make this option available.  I would buy it..

[StephenB]

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@Rkay321 wrote:

Arlo might wanna contact Tesla, Ford, and Gm to make this option available.  I would buy it..

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Teslas already have 8 cameras, it would make more sense to integrate with the ones already there.

[Rkay321]

Yes the Arlo application features would be new to Tesla. Are The 8 Tesla cameras for driving only, or  Are they active for monitoring the surroundings when the car is parked?    Do they have lights?  Can those cameras track and zoom? Not sure about that, but you might know better then me.  

[StephenB]

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@Rkay321 wrote:

 Are The 8 Tesla cameras for driving only, or  Are they active for monitoring the surroundings when the car is parked?    Do they have lights?  Can those cameras track and zoom?

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I don't own a Tesla, so I don't have first hand knowledge.  The cameras are intended to support autonomous driving, so they do need to handle low light conditions.  They also can record and forward video to Tesla to support their ongoing AI efforts for autonomous driving. Track and Zoom could be done by the Tesla on-board computer (it is  purely electronic zoom with Arlo today).

FWIW, Teslas already have a built-in "sentry mode".  https://www.tesla.com/support/car-safety-security-features

The Go and Go 2 are pretty large (in part due to the battery), I think a purpose-built on-board security camera would need to be much smaller (and as I hinted above, is likely re-using the cameras that are already there).

It is an interesting idea, and maybe could be adapted to gasoline vehicles.  The battery drain from a car battery likely would be fairly small.  Lots of folks here are using their cameras to monitor their vehicles.

[Rkay321]

I read the link to the sentry mode Tesla pdf.  Sentry mode doesn’t provide anything similar to a Arlo camera,  I.e. person, dog, sound, etc.  and it doesn’t send the owner a pic or video of what it picked up as suspicious.  

what I was referring to initially, was new Arlo cameras, 4 of them to be exact, that would monitor the cars entire perimeter with live video all cloud recorded, as set ‘on or off’ by an app feature.

And, way more cooler, would be (once 5g is everywhere) to allow for continuous recording to the cloud, ‘while driving’, and not to a Device onboard as is currently the method.  This way someone else could actually be driving along without being in the car.  

fyi- I enjoyed this conversation w you.  It’s all food for thought