just updated and today it’s raining in SF Bay Area (east bay).... and wow, they work so accurately! Better than my Mercedes, I am very shocked.
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OK, luck strikes and the first evening with 50.3 and it rains significantly. This was on street-lamped local roads. Dark outside otherwise.
The rain-sensing is the weirdest one I've ever experienced. First of all, Auto 1 did not do anything, even when the windshield was pretty much full of droplets, so that's out in those conditions.
Auto 2 did function, but in an almost random manner - one wipe here, two wipes there, long random delays in-between, then again one wipe (usually single wipes and then delay), sometimes accumulating significant rain on the windshield, sometimes too much to see ahead safely - I had to override it at times.
It is very distrubing, really, as it stands, having this almost random-seeming mechanism operating the wipers. It clearly recognizes rain, but does so only occasionally. I would say it was worse in dark spots of the road and a little better when turning towards a streetlight, but this correlation remains unclear.
In any case, I would much prefer it to use the wipers with some slowing down/speeding up interval mechanism, like they usually do. This one obviously responds to a yes/no "too much rain on windshield" event - when "yes", it wipes, when "no", it doesn't. There was no continuity, no rhythm, nor any seeming consistency to the wipes.
I think a simple improvement would be to make the rain-sensing have a bit of "memory" and operate the wipers at steady intervals for some time as long as the rain events continue fairly close to one another. That would make for a more pleasant rhythm...
I don’t want to be overly dramatic, but I must say these are probably the best set of sensors of any car I’ve owned. Light sprinkle won’t trigger which is good, this way my wipers don’t scrape. Tesla wipes are now super accurate
FWIW, I picked up my Model 3 in Fremont Friday and drove home (to SoCal) with intermittent rain both before and after dark. On the 3 (AP 2.5) , the auto rain-sensing seemed just right; both day and night. The delivery center did the FW update to 50.3 while I was signing docs. It was a good thing too, since I had no idea how to turn on/off the wipers, lights etc. I literally jumped in and drove 340 miles with one stop. I'll check the X tonight since it just got the 50.3 update.Have you guys tried it at night? Not so good. It seems it can't see well in the dark, so the current software at least is not capable of maintaining a steady cleaning of steady rain. I'm sure it will improve, but current reality at night is not so super.
So only the 2017.50.3 software has rain sensing capabilities, correct?
Nothing on the 2017.50.2?
My X hasn't updated to the 50.3 yet...
Have you guys tried it at night? Not so good. It seems it can't see well in the dark, so the current software at least is not capable of maintaining a steady cleaning of steady rain. I'm sure it will improve, but current reality at night is not so super.