I don’t do many long journeys but every one I have done has been ‘difficult’ on varying form and proportion. On this journey I had a lot of motorway miles in heavy rain. I had the WW’s on auto and they did NOT adjust for heavy downpours i.e. they were intermittent, the heavens opened and they stayed on intermittent. I tried to voice command and some times it worked on first call and other on second / third and sometime not. It was DANGEROUS to the extreme. I called Tesla and she said ‘don’t know will have to call you back’
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M3 LR 22 model (windscreen wipers)
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Tesla touchscreen wiper controls land driver with fine after crash.
Tesla's touchscreen car controls should be treated as a distracting electronic device, a German court has decided.
Tesla's touchscreen car controls should be treated as a distracting electronic device, a German court has decided.
Tesla touchscreen wiper controls land driver with fine after crash
A driver using the touchscreen controls for windscreen wipers was distracted, a German court says.
www.bbc.co.uk
You can Programme the steering wheel buttons as a shortcut to change the wiper speed or press the left stalk button to swipe the wipers once and this will also bring up the windscreen speed menu.
..which you can then adjust with the left scroll wheel, left and right, to go between off and full speed.
Same car, similar journey and experience today -
Just driven 170 miles Sussex - Somerset, mainly motorway in heavy showers / spray / occasional sunshine.
Wipers on auto were as bad as I can remember them - on 'intermittent' in torrential rain when 'fast continuous' was required. Not even noticing very heavy spray from trucks - just stayed 'off'.
I can think of very few occasions when the auto-wiper setting was appropriate to the conditions in over 3 hours of driving.
How do they manage to still get it so wrong after all this time?!
Just driven 170 miles Sussex - Somerset, mainly motorway in heavy showers / spray / occasional sunshine.
Wipers on auto were as bad as I can remember them - on 'intermittent' in torrential rain when 'fast continuous' was required. Not even noticing very heavy spray from trucks - just stayed 'off'.
I can think of very few occasions when the auto-wiper setting was appropriate to the conditions in over 3 hours of driving.
How do they manage to still get it so wrong after all this time?!
About 75 threads on this and the wipers in general, mate.Tesla touchscreen wiper controls land driver with fine after crash.
Tesla's touchscreen car controls should be treated as a distracting electronic device, a German court has decided.
Tesla touchscreen wiper controls land driver with fine after crash
A driver using the touchscreen controls for windscreen wipers was distracted, a German court says.www.bbc.co.uk
Tesla should just add this comment verbatim to the release notes and user manual.
It would save us a lot of heartache and disappointment.
Push the end of the indicator stalk to trigger a wipe. Then use left/right on the (left)scroll wheel to change the speed. Don't need to take your eyes off the road at all.
Zilla91
Active Member
What difference does keeping your eyes on the road make when you can't see anything out of the windscreen when the rain is lashing down in the first place?
What difference does keeping your eyes on the road make when you can't see anything out of the windscreen when the rain is lashing down in the first place?
Yeah yeah ... funny (ish) ... of course in reality, because of the fact that you have initiated the wipe with the button, you can see clearly through the screen whilst moving the steering wheel button. Wipers are a pain but the danger aspect of changing the setting gets magnified in some of the posts.
Presuming those 75 threads are saying the same thing it seems clear that Elon and nobody else at Tesla are monitoring this information . . . . surely they must seek user feedback, if they don't get it here how do they get it? How can a design feature that is so obvioulst WRONG continue for so many years - beacuse they don't know or because they don't care?
Jason71
Well-Known Member
Enjoy your last Tesla then cos that aint happening.
Yeah Tesla are nothing if not resolutely determined that their path is the correct one. It seems to stem from the belief that eventually the cars will drive themselves fully and therefore controls are superfluous. Some zealots back this up uncritically.
Back in the real world there’s several years, possibly a decade or more, before that’s going to be a practical reality. Owners have to deal with the here and now and in this case have to deal with essential controls being needlessly harder to operate (or buy something else).
Back in the real world there’s several years, possibly a decade or more, before that’s going to be a practical reality. Owners have to deal with the here and now and in this case have to deal with essential controls being needlessly harder to operate (or buy something else).
You could use voice controls for wipers, heating, lights etc, or press stalk end for single wipe.
MrBadger
Badger out
And don’t forget, not every Tesla sold has the option to drive itself, irrespective of whether the car has the theoretical ability to drive itself (or not) or the driver wants to be driven.
Until the every Tesla sold is used wholly in self driving mode, then the car should be built to be fit for all driving scenarios.
MrBadger
Badger out
Zilla91
Active Member
I hear he does read this forum and decided to not improve the wipers after reading this post out of spite
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