Yeah, I was pretty excited up thread when an update made the wipers much more sensitive, then I got 8.5 and it's back to being really annoyed by how poorly they work in most wet conditions...
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Windshield wipers are horrible, and arguably dangerous
- Thread starter matto
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New owner (arrived last Friday)- drove in first heavy rain storm today...you guys are right- wipers are terrible! Whoever came up with that design needs to get fired. Windshield wipers have been perfected for decades...shocking how bad they missed it in this car. Theyare ok in light rain- but in a heavy downpour...awful.
So slightly different complaint/concern about the wipers: I'm not certain if one of my wiper nozzles is plugged. For the last month or two (noticed it during a bad snow storm) the proximal 1-2 inches of the driver's side blade does not wipe, but instead smudges the windshield. When it rains, it works fine and wipes that area clean. When I try and clean the windshield with fluid, that area just gets smudged. The right/passenger blade seems to have lots of fluid on it; the driver's one does not. Is this normal? I took it to the SC for multiple fixes, and seems like only a few things were fixed and others (including this one) ignored. Anyone having a similar experience?
AOK1
Member
Got my chance to test out any effects from the last software release. Last night was driving on I95 and it started raining. Unfortunately the auto wiper was worse. There was full blown rain where you could not see and it still took several more seconds before it would activate. Then I noticed predictively that if it was a section of road that had bright lighting, it worked a lot better. Before I had not paid attention to day or night time effectiveness, but it seems there is definitely an issue with the auto wipers being much less effective in darker conditions. Which ironically, if it is raining, it is likely to be darker. I will report this as an issue.
The lack of self-illumination seems to be a persistent problem. Real rain sensors shine infra-red light that reflects off the rain drops, but Tesla's system has to rely on seeing rain against the background.
It’s pretty funny when you park in front of one of those stucco walls that are kind of pebbly. I was sitting in my car at my local library when my wipers went nuts, lmao. I’m guessing it saw the little pebbled texture of the wall as rain drops. It hasn’t done it the last couple of updates, but it was hilarious when it happened.
While in Auto-mode -- mine run at either Max-speed.....or not at all. There is no middle speed, when in auto-mode.
Tesla engineers can build great ev's....but can't get the basics right...i.e. wiping water from the windshield.
Tesla engineers can build great ev's....but can't get the basics right...i.e. wiping water from the windshield.
Michel3
Love those Aero's
8000 km now and NO PROBLEM AT ALL with my wipers. I really don't understand what the fuss is all about.
WdstockWizard
Member
Mine too. I took slow motion video to show the techs at the Service Center. They said “ have a nice day”.
Auto wipers requires a sensitivity setting which allows the user to set it. Not sure why Tesla has yet to add it. I even sent them an email when I was beta testing this feature. It would allow user to set their desired auto sensitivity and conditions. Too many factors that auto wiper in general can't comprehend.
Eno Deb
Active Member
Probably because they haven't figured out how to do it with their camera-based method of rain detection. From what their AI lead said they had trouble getting it to work at all. Fortunately the rain season now seems to be over here in CA.
Sorry. My Model S is 10 days old. This auto wiper problem is a really cheesy one.
This is a M3 section and I believe the S wipers are a completely different type of system.
Knightshade
Well-Known Member
I don't think so.
The S used to use a "real" rain sensor, but it switched to the same vision-only system the 3 uses quite some time ago AFAIK
kingtizzy007
Megatron
Forgive me if this was mentioned in the thread but my wiper blade function got really confused. Let me explain what happened. The rain today was hard, then light, back and forth for about 15 minutes. I went from using the left stalk to turn on the wipers to the touchscreen’s intermittent settings.
After doing this for a bit, the wipers seemed to take on a life of its own. Turned it off on the screen (double-checked it was off) and didn’t press the stalk again and it kept wiping the windshield intermittently. I ended up restarting the touchscreen and that fixed it. Perhaps the lesson in this is to use one or the other to control the wipers but not both. Anyone else experience this or am I the first??
After doing this for a bit, the wipers seemed to take on a life of its own. Turned it off on the screen (double-checked it was off) and didn’t press the stalk again and it kept wiping the windshield intermittently. I ended up restarting the touchscreen and that fixed it. Perhaps the lesson in this is to use one or the other to control the wipers but not both. Anyone else experience this or am I the first??
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