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Turn a Tesla into a mapping vehicle with Mapillary
Tesla vehicles have often been described as “computers on wheels”. They also include cameras for assisted driving features. In the Mapillary community, these features have raised the question whether the imagery from the car’s cameras could be collected and uploaded to Mapillary. In this post, we present a solution to do exactly that.
The main challenge to overcome is that Tesla does not store the GPS tracks alongside the videos on the USB drive. (0,180,-90, and 90, respectively) Of course, we also want to set the camera make to Tesla using the parameter offset_angle Finally, since we use process_and_upload the sampled images are also uploaded to Mapillary directly after processing The teslausb project on GitHub enables you to plug in a Raspberry Pi into your Tesla in place of a regular USB Drive.
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