Like many others had trouble with including myself, the auto wipers never really worked as intended. Seems as if after updating to V9 they are actually doing a great job. Just letting those who don’t have the update know!
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Like many others had trouble with including myself, the auto wipers never really worked as intended. Seems as if after updating to V9 they are actually doing a great job. Just letting those who don’t have the update know!
Maybe they should allow us to adjust the sensitivity on auto wiping. 3 settings should be enough.
now the wipers are WAY too aggressive. I was sitting at a light, moderate rain coming down, and wipers were on fast mode (with a weird pause at the bottom causing it to bounce a little, I'm sure not doing any favors to the mechanisms). It's amazing how hard this has been for them. Before, they were too insensitive, now they're entirely too sensitive.
Funny. I was sitting in my car playing with the interface after my upgrade, and my wipers suddenly started wiping intermittently. No rain or moisture on the windshield at all. Manually had to turn them off.
Well, yesterday morning I thought they were too sensitive (which they were). But last night I had to drive a lot with more rain of varying heaviness and holy cow are these bad (not wiping nearly often enough). It's borderline dangerous. I had to manually adjust the wipers quite a lot, and unfortunately, I kept hitting the "wipers off" button by mistake, because of course there's no tactile feel to the screen and I'm trying to watch the road. Just horrible horrible horrible. How the hell did Tesla not put an actual rain sensor in there? Using cameras is clearly not a good option.
Not making excuses but for those calling this dangerous, did you consider taking the wipers off auto and just using one of the always on setttings?
Yes, you should not have to do this but rather than relying on an auto setting or a manual push on the stalk, just turn them on.
For the record, I had a different car with auto sensing wipers and it sucked as well. I was constantly fiddling with the settings.
Tesla may or may not get this right eventually but putting yourself in “danger” because of an automated setting when a manual setting is available just seems silly.