A Norwegian police department is looking for owners of Tesla cars with Sentry Mode to help them investigate an attempted murder .
But let's see how the story so far. On Sunday night, someone tried to burn down the house of the Mayor of Sandefjord, Bjørn Ole Geditsch. The city of Sandefjord is located in Norway, and more specifically in the southern part of Oslo.
Local police are investigating the case as an attempted murder and according to city news, there are no suspects so far.
However, since Norway is full of Tesla vehicles, the police came up with a clever way to get to the bottom of the matter. They are calling all vehicle owners in the neighborhood, using Sentry Mode, to see if even one car has recorded someone suspicious.
Sentry Mode is a comprehensive surveillancebuilt into Tesla vehicles that uses Autopilot cameras around the car. When enabled, it automatically begins recording as soon as it detects any movement around it.
In similar cases, the owners of such vehicles have shared footage recorded by Sentry Mode and gone viral, resulting in the perpetrators not being able to withstand the online pressure and surrendering to the authorities.
Other times, video evidence has helped police identify and track down vandals.
But this is the first time we've learned that the police themselves are looking for owners of Tesla technology to help with criminal investigations.
To get the tracking system and TeslaCam working, you need some accessories. We recommend Jeda's Model 3 USB hub, so you can use the other ports and hide Sentry Mode. For the drive, you can use a Samsung portable SSD, after modifying it, which provides huge capacity and you can also hide it in the Jeda hub.
Of course, this is something that can only be done in Norway, since it has so many Tesla vehicles that if something happens it is more likely to be recorded by Sentry Mode than by local channels.
It was recently reported that the police bought cars with Sentry Mode instead of the usual tracking technology
