We’ve had quite a storm in Seattle so I’m interested in hearing what other Seattle-area X drivers think, especially since I think our wipers and windshield give us unique experience compared to S and 3 drivers.
I used to be moderately displeased that the wipers didn’t work well with our very common “light” rain. I’d have to click the button in once to get a swipe. Eh, so what. I was honestly more upset Tesla didn’t spend the $3 on a rain sensor, which would have worked better than anything they built using the cameras and the neural net. But I always felt it was a minor quibble considering I otherwise drove a rocket ship with an amazing set of features.
Then I read about “Deep Rain” and my hope was renewed! I thought Andrej might have cracked it and we’d have a wiper system that met or exceeded performance of a rain sensor.
But I feel it’s substantially worse. Like a schizophrenic wiper system that goes batsh*t crazy with unnecessarily fast settings very often, but especially at speed more than 35 mph. And while, according to Elon, you can help train the system by clicking the button when it doesn’t wipe for rain (i.e., train it to wipe more often), there doesn’t seem to be a way to train the system to turn off its high-speed wiping.
For the first time since the auto wiper beta came out, I’ve now turned it off and returned to 1990s-style intermittent wiper settings.
Other PNW folks using the auto wiper beta having similar experiences? I’m running FW 40.2.1 on AP2/MCU1.
I used to be moderately displeased that the wipers didn’t work well with our very common “light” rain. I’d have to click the button in once to get a swipe. Eh, so what. I was honestly more upset Tesla didn’t spend the $3 on a rain sensor, which would have worked better than anything they built using the cameras and the neural net. But I always felt it was a minor quibble considering I otherwise drove a rocket ship with an amazing set of features.
Then I read about “Deep Rain” and my hope was renewed! I thought Andrej might have cracked it and we’d have a wiper system that met or exceeded performance of a rain sensor.
But I feel it’s substantially worse. Like a schizophrenic wiper system that goes batsh*t crazy with unnecessarily fast settings very often, but especially at speed more than 35 mph. And while, according to Elon, you can help train the system by clicking the button when it doesn’t wipe for rain (i.e., train it to wipe more often), there doesn’t seem to be a way to train the system to turn off its high-speed wiping.
For the first time since the auto wiper beta came out, I’ve now turned it off and returned to 1990s-style intermittent wiper settings.
Other PNW folks using the auto wiper beta having similar experiences? I’m running FW 40.2.1 on AP2/MCU1.