Tesla cabin cameras will become more helpful if Tesla's recent patent is implemented in production vehicles. Tesla plans to use facial recognition to apply personalized settings based on the person who drives. The system can also call 911 if the driver is unresponsive or even drive autonomously to the nearest hospital if the vehicle is drivable.
Tesla introduced a cabin camera in its vehicles more as an afterthought than a useful feature. Although a cabin camera was fitted on the Model 3 and Model Y from the get-go, the Model S/X only got this feature in 2021. That was also when Tesla began to use the cameras for driver monitoring, although not in the way other carmakers do. Tesla mostly wanted to collect information about the driver's attentiveness moments before a crash instead of trying to prevent it.
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