It meant adjusting a lot less often than I would otherwise adjust intermittent, and it was intuitive, because adjusting up triggered a wipe, so it would be like the manual wipe button on the Model X increasing sensitivity. At the end of the day, if you're like me and don't want them wiping when they don't need to, then it was a great way to deal with the facts that conditions differ and the sensors get a small sample of the windshield. However, I'm probably one of the more picky users out there. My last vehicle didn't have automatic wipers, and while I missed them, I was equally annoyed that it only had 4 intermittent settings (where my previous three vehicles all had 6-8). Interestingly, though, the pad printing actually showed and computer actually technically had 6 intermittent settings, the wheel just didn't click on all of them, so you could actually put it between settings to get a different speed. With the Tesla, I can't even set it to intermittent and adjust because 2 settings is such a far cry from enough. I'm stuck constantly using the manual wipe button, which is crap for a vehicle in this price range (or century, for that matter). If the manual wipe button temporarily increased sensitivity and turning the wipers off and back on reset it, Tesla's automatic wipers might actually be almost as good (limited only by the fact that there is no way to turn sensitivity back down one click at a time after using the manual wipe button to turn it up).