This has probably been mentioned before but I couldn't find it, so...
The image on the left is the last frame in one 1-minute clip and the image on the right is the 1st frame in the subsequent clip. What happened between the two is that a car was passing me over a double-yellow line, and another car was running that stop sign. They collided and one of the cars side-swiped my car doing extensive damage. Both drivers say that I was across the centerline and caused both of them to collide. Or something.
That's purely fictitious but something like that could have happened. There's about 3 seconds of no video between one clip and the next. A lot can happen in 3 seconds, and that accounts for 5% of total recording time that's missing. So here's hoping that this is a software issue and that sooner or later Tesla will get around to "filling the gap", literally. Other dash cams I've used don't have these gaps so I know it's doable.
On a hunch I bought a 120GB flash drive with enclosure & USB port, formatted one 100GB partition with the "TeslaCam" folder and another 20GB partition for music. I was hoping for the increased write speed and huge disk space to aid in reducing the delay between clips. And as a disadvantage to doing this, if some thief was rummaging around in my console he would surely see that black box and take it, to figure out what it was later. I read of some guy doing this to solve his problem of corrupted video in a thumb drive (which I don't have) and took a chance that it may do the same for the gaps between clips. Nope.
The image on the left is the last frame in one 1-minute clip and the image on the right is the 1st frame in the subsequent clip. What happened between the two is that a car was passing me over a double-yellow line, and another car was running that stop sign. They collided and one of the cars side-swiped my car doing extensive damage. Both drivers say that I was across the centerline and caused both of them to collide. Or something.
That's purely fictitious but something like that could have happened. There's about 3 seconds of no video between one clip and the next. A lot can happen in 3 seconds, and that accounts for 5% of total recording time that's missing. So here's hoping that this is a software issue and that sooner or later Tesla will get around to "filling the gap", literally. Other dash cams I've used don't have these gaps so I know it's doable.
On a hunch I bought a 120GB flash drive with enclosure & USB port, formatted one 100GB partition with the "TeslaCam" folder and another 20GB partition for music. I was hoping for the increased write speed and huge disk space to aid in reducing the delay between clips. And as a disadvantage to doing this, if some thief was rummaging around in my console he would surely see that black box and take it, to figure out what it was later. I read of some guy doing this to solve his problem of corrupted video in a thumb drive (which I don't have) and took a chance that it may do the same for the gaps between clips. Nope.