Yup. It just started happening in my car....just within the last week! It's so weird that it happened with others, like, months or more ago. I've had my car since December 2019. I even tried to schedule a service visit. Cuz, it just made no sense that I couldn't engage cruise control (a.k.a. basic autopilot
) without the wipers coming on. The service person was nice enough to reply.....essentially, if what they said is correct, Tesla transferred to a vision-based system which uses the front camera instead of parking sensors. They said they've had a few owners who've told them the wipers have gotten more sensitive (the windshield camera has "ultra high sensitivity"). Luckily, the wipers are in Beta.....so, I hope they realize the Beta should go bye-bye. If I'm on a hundreds-of-miles trip, I sure do want to use cruise control. And if it's not raining, spitting, misting, bug-splat-showering, etc. the wipers should not come on. And I should not have to stop every few miles, to clean off the windshield during the trip. OK; rant over.
I'll do a super clean on the windshield, especially "behind" the rear view mirror, to see if that works.