Tesla Owners Auto Wipers Poll

[Sonny-Jim]

Wanted to get a better idea via a poll, to find which items cause you the most aggravation

 

[GHammer]

It's apparent by now that the approach of using the camera to detect rain is not technologically feasible. It's not because Tesla is in California (contrary to popular notion, it does rain in California and sometimes quite hard) that it won't be fixed, it's just not possible given the hardware. At some point they are going to have to relent and put a normal rain sensor back in. Of course that won't help those of us who have to rely on the camera.

 

[Jason71]

They will never get fixed because the hardware is not fit for purpose. If it was they would have done it by now

 

[gsmith123]

Mostly "They turn on during a completely dry and clear day."

I live in a snowy climate, so I'd also add they don't perform particularly well in snowy conditions either (erring both on the side of underwiping and sometimes going absolutely crazy when there's just a touch a snowy coming down)

 

[TheMacMan]

I live in the UK so it rains quite a bit here.

Never use auto wipers as they never seem to never work as they should ie: when it rains heavy they never go fast enough or often enough.

 

[M3North2019]

It's not on your poll but in winter (=dark) in heavy rain in UK they never work fast enough. Never.

 

[Js1977]

 

[browellm]

OP is here

 

[Tony Hoyle]

They don't work in the dark either.. being cameras. I've driven through filthy weather on an unlit road and not a peep out of the autowipers. Presumabably in california they don't have unlit roads either (I doubt this, but the alternative is that Tesla didn't even test in their home state..).

 

[hgmichna]

For me they work quite well in 2024.14.9 .

When it begins to rain slightly, they are a bit late, but pushing the button gets them to start.

I guess they will be improved further and will end up being good enough.

 

[Tony Hoyle]

They haven't improved in 5 years I think you'll be waiting a long time..

 

[hgmichna]

They have improved quite a lot. They are good now. Not excellent, but fairly good in 2024.14.9 . But I had already written that.

 

[The_Kilt]

Iim on a 2018 Model S and in the UK so lots of rain especially the last 8 months, and to be honest mine arent too bad. The only gripes i have is that when it starts drizzling, it may take a while for them to kick in but when they do, there are no issues after that. And then a random one which i dont know is normal, when reversing they go on full speed mode even if its slightly drizzly. Never had any issues with dirty windscreen, not working in the dark etc.

 

[Sonny-Jim]

Thanks for all the comments and feedback

 

[MrT3]

They fail to wipe with UK drizzle or spray on the motorway.

When they dry wipe, the only way to turn them off is to press the button to bring up the manual controls which makes it dry wipe again

 

[Aliomenti]

They don't increase sensitivity even when you manually trigger them multiple times in a row.

Apparently they do now in the latest update.

 

[GRiLLA]

A key variable is the dark, they always seem to be too slow in the dark as I guess they can't see the rain as well.

 

[Jason71]

A key variable is the dark, they always seem to be too slow in the dark as I guess they can't see the rain as well.

seeing rain on glass in the dark is virtually impossible which is one of the reasons it was a dumb design in the first place

 

[Dracaris]

seeing rain on glass in the dark is virtually impossible which is one of the reasons it was a dumb design in the first place

Exactly, and being the proud SOB that he is, Elon will never admit he should have kept right on using the tried and tested gelpack sensor that everyone else on the planet has been using for decades to support auto wipers instead of wasting time and money trying to teach those cheap cameras to see rain at all, much less in the dark.

 

[Js1977]

seeing rain on glass in the dark is virtually impossible which is one of the reasons it was a dumb design in the first place

No problems here...

Jokes aside this topic could go on forever... or as long as they dont change the system and we have noobs