I'm with you on the right wheel. However, I think people see the right wheel as a more "mission critical" control (when used with autopilot/FSD). Again, pretty trivial to make a left/right scroll wheel selection in a deeper menu. As you said, the hardware/functionality is all there, not really a big deal to write the code to patch it together.
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MASTER THREAD: Auto Wiper functionality, complaints, praise, etc.
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I'm with you on the right wheel. However, I think people see the right wheel as a more "mission critical" control (when used with autopilot/FSD). Again, pretty trivial to make a left/right scroll wheel selection in a deeper menu. As you said, the hardware/functionality is all there, not really a big deal to write the code to patch it together.
I agree, however they need to have that wiper popup stay a little long than the 1 sec (feels like) it is up currently when you press the button. Also they need more speed settings, 4 speeds is not enough, the slowest setting is too fast for me sometimes. My old Subaru had like 10 little notches and each notch was 1 sec. We don't need that much, just 5 or 6 speeds, one being slower than the slowest one now.
I don't know mine work perfectly ...no issues with the auto wipers at all. If anything they wipe a little earlier than I would when the rain is light. Otherwise they are probably the best I have had in any car.
I agree! I've had the car over a year and can't complain about the wipers.
I bought mine in dec 18 and the wipers are terrible, and worse than terrible in snow.
Ironman793
Member
Absolutely the most frustrating thing about my MY. I almost don't want to drive it in the rain. Tesla needs to hire engineers outside of SoCal.
I wonder if it's partly an HW 2.5 vs HW 3 issue? I'm on 2.5 and they're honestly not great. I play a game of waiting as long as possible for them to wipe (when it's safe to do so) and it's usually about 2-3 seconds later than the latest I would ever do on my own.
I'm with you, any customizable features are welcome, if anyone doesn't like it can just turn it off, or change it from left scroll to right.
However, I'm happy with auto wiper 98% of the time, the 1% when they are too slow I just do a quck stalk press (reflex, i don't even think about it), the other 1% when they are too fast, who cares.
I have a mid-2019X (HW3 via free upgrade that happened soon after getting it) and the auto wipers are barely useful. They act as a helper at least but if its raining lightly, or snowing, they simply do not activate and stay active enough. Also the difference between auto option 1 and option 2 isn't great but I also cannot say if I want more of a delta or less (they behave odd either way). Manual option is at least easier in my X because of it being on a stalk and not touch-screen. In fact I would never want a car without manual for the urgent controls and can imaging it must be a pain to use a touch-screen for everything.
Use of a product like Rain-X (or similar) makes things much better IMO. I rarely use the wipers at about 35 mph and over. It also takes the danger out of things at lower speeds simply because water on the glass doesn't have the sheeting effect that makes visibility poor. Water beads rather than sheets - that makes a big difference. I understand this isn't necessarily a solution to the technical problem that's being discussed here, but I think you'll find that things are a lot less dangerous when activating the wipers because your visibility isn't gone entirely if you need to glance back and forth from window to screen.
What scares me is this seems to be a trend with Tesla, a string of uncompleted projects (that work somewhat) that seem to get abandoned. Auto park, auto wipers, auto high beams, smart summon, auto lane change (to a lesser extent). I have pretty much everything that my M3 does "auto" turned off because it sucks. I have found auto wipers to not always be terrible, I left them on for a while. Tried turning auto high beams back on the other day and started laughing because it was so bad it was comical. I hate that I'm starting to lose faith in the future of FSD because of this trend, still holding on but not sure about my cyber truck order anymore.
I also think with most things instead of having just the NN or whatever try to decide what is best, how about it does its thing but we get a sensitivity or fine tuning slider or something since everyone is different. This is kind of like the follow distance adjustment and could be applied to lots of stuff like autopilot acceleration, braking, wipers, high beams etc.
milleron
Member
I'd much rather die in an auto accident caused by faulty wipers than move to the People's Republic of California.
2019 here - sometimes they work perfectly and other times during light rain or a random splash they don't work. For those that don't know, I discovered that if you press in the button on the left stalk, it will activate the wipers. It's a lot easier than messing with the touch screen when you need them to wipe something off in the moment.
milleron
Member
There are times when I could explain the performance of my Model S auto wipers exactly as you did. Then the next time it rains, I'm throwing every curse I know at them. The auto functionality is frustratingly erratic in my experience.
AdamMacDon
Member
Honestly I could probably wire something up that would send signal to the manual stalk and effect the same change as pressing the button... Just automated. I'll look into this.
