Customer service is excellent. One of the cameras became foggy and they replaced it immediately.
The screen is colorful and clear and the cameras produce a great image.
Camera connections and mounting are strong even if the instructions are limited. The YouTube videos help but they can also leave out a few things. How to screw in the mounting plate of the side cameras, for instance, seemed to be completely missing.
The system can record non-stop if it has constant power, even while the car is parked and the display is turned off.
The system has some quirks though. Namely, when driving at night, the night vision mode toggles on and off when drivers behind me have their headlights on. Normally this isn’t an issue, but the system generates a bright blue NO SIGNAL screen for a moment each time it transitions from night vision mode to standard. So as I am driving, the cab of the truck just flashes blue throughout my entire drive. There is no setting to adjust this.
The viewing angle of the screen is good but not great. You must point the screen at you in order to get the brightest picture. This is especially important during the day when the sun is extremely bright.
The contrast of the screen is very high, so on a bright day, the shadows cast by the sun are essentially black and you can’t see anything except where the sun is shining.
The startup screen is of a Tesla semi, which is very strange.
The SD card is very difficult to insert and remove.
The aspect ratio of the cameras is almost always wrong when viewing all 4. This is necessary in order to fill up the entire screen with video, but it makes it difficult to properly sense distance. It even changes based on whether or not you have the side menu open. Further, you can’t see the entire camera feed when viewing multiple cameras at once and you can’t pan each window to adjust what you can see in that limited space. You also cannot create your own layout.
Sorting through the recorded clips on the computer is hard since they are only a couple of minutes each. From 4 cameras on a 32 GB card, that’s almost 1200 files to sort through for only about a day of recording.
Even with these oddities, it is nice to have a smooth 60 frames per second feed from each perspective while driving. Cutouts only happen when the rear camera is transitioning between day and night. The side cameras don’t see to do this. Double tapping any feed makes it full screen which is nice.
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