How it works
Modern Teslas see 360 degrees around themselves and record it. Four cameras — front, rear, and one in each front wing — cover the whole way around the car. The dashcam saves the road while it is driven, Sentry Mode keeps the same four running while it is parked. So a crash with no witnesses standing on the corner usually still had a full circle of cameras pointed at it, from a car nobody thought to ask.
That is the network this site leverages: more than 2 million Teslas on the road across the US and Canada, every one carrying the same four cameras. We own none of them and we never touch the footage. We put the person who needs a clip in front of the drivers who might be holding it.
If you need footage
Post the place, a time window, and what a driver should look for, with a bounty attached. One request reaches every owner on the board whose routes and driving days overlap your window, out of 2 million cars on the road. You stay anonymous: your contact details are hidden until a driver claims it.
The bounty is whatever the footage is worth to you. A higher one gets checked sooner, because pulling clips off a car takes real effort and most owners have never done it.
Do it now rather than next week. The clip is being overwritten while you decide.
Post a bountyIf you drive a Tesla
Tell us roughly where you drive and which days you drive it. Anything open that overlaps shows up, closest and highest first. You are one of 2 million cars that could answer any given request, and the one who checks first is the one who gets paid. Your car recorded 360 degrees, so it may have caught something beside or behind you rather than straight ahead.
You are not signing up to anything and you are not promising footage. You are finding out whether it is worth walking out to the car with a laptop.
Clips overwrite themselves once the drive fills up, so recent days are the realistic ones. Check before you promise anything to anybody.
Straight answers
- How quickly do I need to act?
- Fast. Sentry Mode writes to a drive that fills up and then overwrites the oldest clips first, so a parked-car recording typically survives days to a couple of weeks. If the incident was yesterday your odds are good. If it was a month ago, the honest answer is that it has probably gone unless the owner saved it at the time.
- Does every Tesla actually have this footage?
- There are more than 2 million Teslas on the road in North America and the cameras are on every modern one, covering 360 degrees. But the recording has to be written somewhere: Sentry Mode and the dashcam need a USB drive fitted. Most owners who care about this have one. Some do not, and their car saw everything and kept none of it. So treat the fleet figure as the size of the network, not as a count of available footage.
- What does it cost?
- Nothing right now. Posting and claiming are both free while we get the board filled. We intend to take a cut of bounties later, and we will say so plainly before we do.
- Are all these requests real?
- The board launched with example listings across the US and Canada so the map explains itself while real requests come in. Every request says on its own page whether it is a real one or one of ours, and an example cannot be claimed. If you only want genuine requests, open one and check before you go looking for footage.
- How do you know whether a bounty got paid?
- We ask. The money never passes through us, so we cannot see a payment and will not pretend otherwise. A few days after a claim, both sides get a one-click question about how it went, and a bounty only counts as paid when both answers agree. A single person saying so is a claim about money, not evidence of it. The unflattering answers — footage gone, never replied — are recorded too, because a board that only collects good news learns nothing about itself.
- Who holds the money?
- You do. We introduce the two of you by email and you settle payment directly. We do not hold funds, take a deposit, or guarantee that either side follows through.
- Do you store the footage?
- No. Nothing is uploaded here. Clips go straight from the driver to the person who asked, which keeps other people's recordings off our systems entirely and means we could not hand your footage to anyone even if we were asked to.
- Can I use this footage in a claim or in court?
- That is between you, your insurer, and your lawyer. We make no claim about chain of custody or admissibility, and you should not treat an introduction here as evidence handling. Insurers accept dashcam footage routinely; how much weight it carries is their call, not ours.
- Do I have to hand over my whole recording?
- No. You send what you choose to send. Plenty of owners trim to the relevant minute or blur what is not relevant before sharing, and nothing here obliges you to do more than you are comfortable with.
- Is my exact crash location public?
- You choose how precise the pin is when you post. A wider ring protects your privacy but makes it harder for a driver to tell whether they were on that road, so there is a real trade to make.
Post it before it is overwritten
Two minutes, no account, no fee.