[frogblast]

> Yes but the police can't start occupying my house or deny me access to it because I wasn't home to let them in

With a search warrant, they can. You can be kept out of your home until they complete the search and seizing of the items named in the warrant. Depending on what is being searched for (excavating your basement looking for bodies?) that could take quite some time.

So the Tesla situation getting press isn't because the precedent is new, it's because most Americans (many in this thread included) don't understand what the law has already been since long before Teslas ever existed, and are surprised at what they find.

[woooooo]

Taking your frickin car is new.

A judge made a decision that past jurisprudence applies to towing cars that happen to have cameras nearby, nobody was doing it until that first warrant got signed.

[bastawhiz]

The difference is that when the police are done, my house is still in the same spot. In this case, my car is gone. The police aren't going to put it back.

[pcaharrier]

I dealt directly with search warrants for a handful of years and this is correct.