TeslaCam Bounty

Teslas are everywhere. Every one of them is recording.

more than 2 million of them on the road in North America, each seeing 360 degrees around itself, moving or parked.

Got into an accident? Use the Tesla network to your advantage.

Post a bounty

Tesla owners: connect with buyers who will pay for your footage before it gets overwritten.

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Free to post. No account. Nothing is asked of you until you post or claim.

70 metros, US and Canada

Every circle is a request for footage, sized by what it pays. Click one for an overview.

$38,500on offer right now
134requests on the board
22bounties paid out
70metros covered

The footage is deleting itself while you read this

Sentry Mode writes to a drive that fills up, then starts overwriting the oldest clips. Depending on the drive, a parked-car recording survives days to a couple of weeks. Nobody goes looking through it unless they have a reason.

If your crash was yesterday, you are early. If it was last month, the window has probably closed. Posting takes two minutes and costs nothing, so the only real mistake is waiting.

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  • Day 0The crash. Every car within sight of it still holds 360 degrees of the moment, moving or parked.
  • Days 1–3Best odds. The drive has not filled up and the owner still remembers the day.
  • Week 1–2Overwriting starts. Some cars still have it, most are on borrowed time.
  • After thatGone, unless the owner happened to save it at the time.

You need footage

Somebody hit you and drove off. Or you both say the light was green. Or your insurer has decided it is your word against theirs, and there were no witnesses standing on the corner with a notepad.

There was probably a camera. Post what you need and what it is worth to you, and let the drivers who were there come to you.

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You have footage

Your car has been recording 360 degrees around itself for months and you have never watched any of it. Somebody a few metres away needs ten minutes of it badly enough to pay for it.

Tell us the roads you drive and the days you drive them. If anything matches, you decide whether to go and look. You share only what you choose to share.

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  • Free to postNo listing fee, no account, no card.
  • You keep controlContact details stay hidden until someone claims.
  • We never hold the footageClips go straight from the driver to you.
  • You set the priceThe bounty is whatever the clip is worth to you.

360 degrees of vision. Parked or moving.

Front, rear, and one in each front wing: four cameras that between them cover the whole way around the car. The dashcam saves the road while it is driven, and Sentry Mode keeps the same four running while it is parked and something moves nearby. Whichever it was, the owner almost never watches the footage, which is exactly why it is worth asking for.

Close-up of the camera housing in the front wing of a red Tesla Model 3
One in each front wing, covering the kerb and the rear quarter on that side. Photo CarlJohanSveningsson, CC BY-SA 4.0
Close-up of the rear-facing camera above the number plate of a Tesla Model 3
One at the back, covering whatever pulls up behind. Photo CarlJohanSveningsson, CC BY-SA 4.0
A Tesla Model 3 parked at the kerb on a residential street
Four angles, 360 degrees, running while it sits there. Photo Carlquinn, CC BY-SA 4.0

From the crash to the clip

  1. A Toronto street at night, headlights streaking past storefronts
    Photo VynedJ, CC BY 4.0

    Somebody hits you and drives off

    A junction, a lane change, a car reversing out of a space. Nobody stops, there is no camera on the corner, and your insurer decides it is your word against theirs.

  2. A city expressway at night, traffic streaming under the lights
    Photo Lonelymiesarchie, CC BY-SA 3.0

    You ask every Tesla that was there

    You post the day, the place, and what it is worth to you. The request goes out across a network of 2 million Teslas on the road in the US and Canada, each carrying 360 degrees of footage nobody has watched.

  3. A dashcam mounted on a windscreen, seen from inside the car
    Photo Ellin Beltz, CC BY-SA 3.0

    We put the two of you in touch

    An owner who was there checks their clips and claims it. We hand you each other's contact details, the footage comes straight from them, and you settle the payment between you.

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Already paid out

Requests that got answered, and what the driver was paid for answering them. None of these people went looking for anything: they drove where they normally drive, somebody nearby needed the clip, and they spent ten minutes with a USB drive.

$7,475 paid out over 22 requests $340 a clip on average

The money never passes through this site, so we cannot watch a payout happen. We ask both sides separately afterwards and only count one here when both answers agree.

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Opens the board on your own area. No account, and if you would rather match your whole commute at once, do that instead.