The recordings are stored on a local usb drive. There is no configuration beyond turning the feature on/off. (You can set it to automatically turn off on some l

The recordings are stored on a local usb drive. There is no configuration beyond turning the feature on/off. (You can set it to automatically turn off on some locations, e.g. in your own garage to conserve battery.) The owner can view the recordings either in an app inside the car or by taking the drive out and plugging it somewhere else. There is no wireless access, there is no first-party cloud backup.[1] Tesla might have some over-the-air access to the recordings based on the privacy settings, but these are not shared with the users. The owner cannot set their own retention, the car erases the oldest recordings when the drive is full. Maybe one could use a very small drive to limit it, but that would also limit the dashcam. The owner can view live stream from 7 of the cameras in the Tesla phone app. When this happens, the car flashes lights and displays a message on the screen. They can also enable/disable sentry mode in that app. --- I would guess that the owners will be eventually able to view/manage the past recordings remotely as well. The cars are getting regular updates with new features, it just takes time. [1] - there is a project that let's you plug a rpi into the usb port and emulate a drive, then backup the files over the air once you get to home wifi: https://github.com/milesburton/teslacam https://github.com/milesburton/teslacam