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Tesla owners can activate a security measure on their vehicles called “sentry mode,” which can help deter or even bust threats in the wake of widespread vandalism targeting Elon Musk’s electric car company.
Sentry mode, when enabled, keeps the cameras and sensors of the vehicle powered on and ready to record suspicious activity that happens nearby.
“Think of Sentry Mode as an intelligent vehicle security system that alerts you when it detects possible threats nearby,” according to the Tesla Model 3 owner’s manual.
Tesla vehicles with sentry mode activated will pulse the headlights, sound the alarm and display a message on the touchscreen saying that cameras may be recording as a warning to those outside the vehicle if a threat is detected or if its sensors pick of “jerky movement” like being towed or shaken.
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A Tesla Model 3 at the company’s dealership in Palo Alto, California, on Jan. 28, 2025. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via / Getty Images)
Sentry mode also sends the vehicle owner an alert on the Tesla mobile