You Can Now Remotely Access Your Tesla's Camera - and Talk to People

The Tesla Oracle blog reports on a newly-released security feature "that enables Tesla owners to remotely view what's happening around their vehicles in real-time using their mobile phones..." "While you have opened the live camera view of your parked Tesla car, you can talk back to the people in the vehicle's surroundings."The Tesla vehicle will change your voice, amplify and output it via an external speaker installed under the car. Teslas built since January 2019 have this speaker installed as part of the pedestrian warning system, a requirement by the NHTSA.In the last year's holiday software update package, Tesla introduced the Boombox feature using this external speak. Boombox lets Tesla owners add custom horn and pedestrian warning sounds to the vehicle. Tesla owners will now be able to warn potential vandals more explicitly by giving them verbal warnings from a remote location... In a tweet Wednesday, Elon Musk joked the feature was also "great for practical jokes."

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