spdpsba
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I don’t think that is the issue as others pointed out.Anyone know how much a rain sensor costs?
Auto-wiping systems are already developed with the help of rain sensors. But the employment of separate sensor for the various tasks (cruise control, wipers, headlights, parking etc.,) is not desirable from the viewpoint of space, appearance, cost, maintenance etc. The single vision sensor employed in the Tesla can be used for many vision-based applications like distance adjustment between cars from leading vehicle recognition, self-steering from white line recognition, automatic braking systems from pedestrian recognition and so on.
These systems also detect raindrops on the windshield and automatically turn on and adjust the wiper system in accordance with the intensity of the rain. The following paper gives some explanation regarding how complex this activity is and why Tesla needs more and more data and drivers input to optimise this.
Vision-based rain sensing with an in-vehicle camera
An intelligent wiper speed adjustment system can be found in most middle and upper class cars. A core piece of this gadget is the rain sensor on the windshield. With the upcoming number of cars being equipped with an in-vehicle camera for vision-based applications the call for integrating all...
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I understand as a buyer you don’t need a scientific paper on top of the manual explaining the rain sensors when you are paying £50000. But these are real issues and Tesla can’t just sacrifice the whole for the some of its parts just because the parts works in other vehicles!
Unfortunately that is the cost of innovation not ideology as someone else mentioned!