What do you mean fixed? the hell was wrong with your wipers? or is that a problem you new car people have because your car isnt as awesome as us legacy cars with the actual stalks on the wheel that allows us to do basic operations
Um. So, traded in a 2018 M3 LR RWD on 9/28 for a 2023 M3 LR AWD.
Before the trade-in, was running FSD 11.4.7.something. There were some people on that release who complained that the wipers incessantly dry wiped; or didn't wipe in wet weather; or, when in wet weather, just didn't wipe at the appropriate speed. (Now, some of those people would have been trolls, but that's the 11.X FSD thread.)
I saw a bit of that; over the months of having that release (or closely related ones) I had, maybe, a total of 12 or so dry wipes. Period. On the other hand, that release worked Just Fine as far as wipers working, doing the appropriate thing in mist, rain, and torrents.
After getting the new car, which was running 11.3.7 or something, didn't have problems with the wipers at all, although, with it being an earlier FSD-b release, it had its (known) issues that the 11.4 branch was designed to fix. After a bit and a couple of updates, I ended up with FSD 11.4.4, which, at the time, was behind the usual collection of FSD-b releases for the Testing crowd, but was being shipped with all new cars. Never had a windshield wiper problem at all with 11.4.4.
The people currently running about with 2023.44.30.X and FSD 11.4.9 are reporting that their previous problems with 11.4.7.x and 11.4.8.x seem to be solved. Which is why I mentioned it. The OP was asking for advice, and the windshield wiper problems had been an issue on the FSD 11.X thread, and it now seems cured.
As far as that guy who got AP disabled: That's been a more-or-less standard feature of FSD for over a year now. Screw around, read books, take one's eyes off the road, watch videos on the cell phone, and all that jazz, and one is going to Get Strikes. In the beginning, Getting Struck Out (took around 5 shots) would mean for the FSD types that they wouldn't have access, at all, to FSD until a new point release came out. After that, it was, like, a month. Now I believe it's a week.
But, if you got someone who's actually
getting strikes, then either that someone is doing some pretty unsafe driving or (less likelihood) has something wrong with the car. And that fits into the NHTSA schtick: There were people holding down the gas pedal and driving through stop signs and stop lights while on Standard Autopilot, then killing people. Tesla and the NHTSA has been in talks about this over a couple of years, so the alerts and better driver monitoring seem to be the solution.
So, natch, Tesla's apparently taken the field-proven "driver attention" module and pushed it onto the Standard Autopilot crowd. With luck, we'll have fewer cases of Death By Idiot.
