They just need to keep the windscreen clear, mate. That's it.
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Auto Wipers are awful
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Pagemakers
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Pagemakers
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To make matters worse you are now not able to turn the bloody wipers off when autopilot is engaged. Why?
goRt
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Pagemakers
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The car used to use radar for some critical safety systems, that's now turned off so it only relies on the cameras so it's essential they can see. This strategy would be fine if the wipers (and auto dip headlights) were highly reliable, which they are not.
ACarneiro
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I had a long-ish night drive last night. Quite wet, quite windy.
The fecking auto-wipers were a distraction to the point of being, quite frankly, almost dangerous. I had to keep adjusting the speed (which is fairly easy with a stalk but a nightmare in the stupid touch screen) and whenever I had TACC on it was a lottery what they would do next. I hate them with a passion!
The fecking auto-wipers were a distraction to the point of being, quite frankly, almost dangerous. I had to keep adjusting the speed (which is fairly easy with a stalk but a nightmare in the stupid touch screen) and whenever I had TACC on it was a lottery what they would do next. I hate them with a passion!
Auto Wipers are awful
yes they are!
Pagemakers
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My drive today Manchester to Teeside and I thought exactly the same and you.
My eyes are constantly drawn to the screen to cancel some lane change ping or to speed up or slow down the terrible wipers. It is an utter distraction. Autopilot today has been woeful. About 6 phantom brakes, a total autopilot drop out (never seen that before) and some really crap half-half lane changes. Then when it’s 5 miles from the super charger it decides to try a total new re-route to a less busy charger. Again lots of fingers on the screen to stop it. When I arrive only 40% are taken anyway.
Really shitty trip today.
I work in the airline industry and dings, pings, confirmations and unnecessary lights are kept to an ABSOLUTE minimum for a very good reason.
Pagemakers
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In addition. With blue skies over me and not a drop of rain in sight. Dark clouds 50 to 60 miles in front of me. Auto wipers are wiping intermittently and then constantly on. It’s driving me crazy. There is absolutely no way now to drive with autopilot on and wipers off.
Even with TACC on the wipers cannot be off!!
Even with TACC on the wipers cannot be off!!
Pagemakers
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There are 18 pages of posts in this thread. Take a look... the deficiences and the reasons why they are different to all other cars (not in a good way) have been covered quite comprehensively. You can use voice commands for manual settings if you want. (Models X and S have stalk controls for wipers that 3 and Y don't have.)
I can’t understand why Tesla cannot fix this. I have a new Model 3 and the auto wiper setting has a mind of its own, sometimes not wiping in wet conditions but wiping when screen is bone dry. This seems to be the norm judging by other posts. I have an Audi and though the rain detector isn’t perfect it is superior to the Tesla. I think I will follow others and use the single button wipe and the manual low speed setting. If Tesla cannot fix this I am not inclined to try fsd ever.
Pagemakers
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They can’t fix this because the camera can never work as well as a dedicated rain detector that Tesla doesn’t have. What makes matters worse if you can’t turn off the wipers with autopilot engaged. For me the wipers range from just satisfactory to absolutely bloody terrible.
ACarneiro
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I have barely used AP since they made this god-awful change.
That and forcing Auto High Beam on in the dark.
Absolute c*ckwombles.
On the other hand, to be fair, I’ve been getting less phantom braking. Mind, it only took them three years to make it go from “happening all the time” to “happens sometimes”.
Pagemakers
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I’ve been driving with autopilot on a beautifully clear day with overhead clear blue skies and about 50 miles ahead there’s a dark rain cloud and the car wipers start and with autopilot engaged there is absolutely nothing you can do apart from enjoy the screeching sound of dry rubber scraping across the windscreen. It’s utter madness. I’m convinced this was implemented when they changed to camera only navigation for autopilot. Another backwards step.
Additionally if you are driving with autopilot engaged and your windscreen is slightly dirty, pressing the wash/wipe is an absolute no-no. The car thinks it’s raining and for about 7-8 minutes the wipers are scraping across the screen with no rain in sight.
Finally when I’m driving and the wipers are “behaving” themselves for 5 or 10 minutes I think to myself “at last, it’s finally fixed” then suddenly my beautiful intermittent wipers start to clatter back and forth as if I was in a monsoon when in reality there has been zero change in the ambient weather conditions. Fail, fail, fail on every level.
Why on earth this terrible performance has not been immediately picked up by Tesla is anybody’s guess.
Additionally if you are driving with autopilot engaged and your windscreen is slightly dirty, pressing the wash/wipe is an absolute no-no. The car thinks it’s raining and for about 7-8 minutes the wipers are scraping across the screen with no rain in sight.
Finally when I’m driving and the wipers are “behaving” themselves for 5 or 10 minutes I think to myself “at last, it’s finally fixed” then suddenly my beautiful intermittent wipers start to clatter back and forth as if I was in a monsoon when in reality there has been zero change in the ambient weather conditions. Fail, fail, fail on every level.
Why on earth this terrible performance has not been immediately picked up by Tesla is anybody’s guess.
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