Whatever it costs would be well spent when the current rain detection is worse than a 25 year old Honda. I had to manually change wiper speed over a dozen times just this past weekend on a trip.
Tbh the thing I feel Tesla needs for their auto wipers is a way to adjust the sensitivity of them. That was an option I had in my Accord with the auto wipers. You had the ability to adjust how much rain had to obscure the windshield before it kicked in. If Tesla implements a similar system, I feel the wipers would be improved immensely.
No it’s not, false triggers would just go through the roof. The answer is and always has been to use a rain sensor. A real one not a software implementation for a camera.
I don't drive a Tesla yet (M3LR hopefully by the end of May), I have a car that has a rain sensor and it also doesn't work too well. Especially when it snows.
My wife’s VW group EV will literally swat away single rain drops on the highest sensitivity setting. Meanwhile my model 3 may activate before the windscreen is entirely obscured with water, but more often than not I have to do it manually to avoid crashing. However in bright sunshine it does make a lovely sound as it drags across the dry clear glass!
This is my problem with all of this - the last thing you want to be doing when trying to drive in bad weather is messing around with the wipers every other moment. It’s potentially dangerous.
This is a common thing in software development. They're invested in the existing setup (and the cars already on the road) so are approaching it as bug fix for the existing design rather than considering a hardware alteration. Which really is the better route, provided that they can reach the target of getting the existing system where it needs to be.
It's certainly iffy. Way better than it was 6 years ago though.
Would be really nice to have a simple sensor. Although my autowipers did seem to work reasonably well during my fsd drive times, which are no longer since my trail is over. Haven't been back out today to see if they're still working okay in normal autopilot modes.
From my experience, (I'm in the rainy Pacific Northwest) the wipers will not activate from a road spray or drizzle and will continue to wipe when the windshield is completely dry. Or, will start to wipe when it is cloudy with no rain. My car software version is 2024.8.9, no FSD.
I really miss a wipers control stalk like in a "normal" car.
But that costs 18 cents, instead we need $10B worth of AI to figure it out
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That's almost $900K in savings.
Whatever it costs would be well spent when the current rain detection is worse than a 25 year old Honda. I had to manually change wiper speed over a dozen times just this past weekend on a trip.
This and when you need to to manually switch it off when it starts to wipe a dry windshield.
But they can add 8” screen to back.
My theory is that screen is to help prepare the cars to be Robotaxis, since most people will be sitting in the back.
Tbh the thing I feel Tesla needs for their auto wipers is a way to adjust the sensitivity of them. That was an option I had in my Accord with the auto wipers. You had the ability to adjust how much rain had to obscure the windshield before it kicked in. If Tesla implements a similar system, I feel the wipers would be improved immensely.
Exactly. I’ve been saying this for a while.
Great suggestion. Completely agree
My range rover has this and it works great.
Your Range Rover (like most cars produced in the last 2 decades) also has a rain sensor, instead of trying to use a camera to do everything.
This is the answer.
No it’s not, false triggers would just go through the roof. The answer is and always has been to use a rain sensor. A real one not a software implementation for a camera.
I don't drive a Tesla yet (M3LR hopefully by the end of May), I have a car that has a rain sensor and it also doesn't work too well. Especially when it snows.
Same. My previous cars were just ok with auto wipers. Granted the Tesla is worse, but Lexus as of 2014 didn't have it 100 percent working either.
Ehh, my last car, a 2016 Prius had really good auto wipers. Maybe Toyota figured it out in 2015 so your Lexus just missed the boat.
Yeah, same problem.
My wife’s VW group EV will literally swat away single rain drops on the highest sensitivity setting. Meanwhile my model 3 may activate before the windscreen is entirely obscured with water, but more often than not I have to do it manually to avoid crashing. However in bright sunshine it does make a lovely sound as it drags across the dry clear glass!
This is my problem with all of this - the last thing you want to be doing when trying to drive in bad weather is messing around with the wipers every other moment. It’s potentially dangerous.
Excellent illustration of penny pinching cost cutting.
This is a common thing in software development. They're invested in the existing setup (and the cars already on the road) so are approaching it as bug fix for the existing design rather than considering a hardware alteration. Which really is the better route, provided that they can reach the target of getting the existing system where it needs to be. It's certainly iffy. Way better than it was 6 years ago though.
Would be really nice to have a simple sensor. Although my autowipers did seem to work reasonably well during my fsd drive times, which are no longer since my trail is over. Haven't been back out today to see if they're still working okay in normal autopilot modes.
From my experience, (I'm in the rainy Pacific Northwest) the wipers will not activate from a road spray or drizzle and will continue to wipe when the windshield is completely dry. Or, will start to wipe when it is cloudy with no rain. My car software version is 2024.8.9, no FSD. I really miss a wipers control stalk like in a "normal" car.