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u/Messyfingers 3d ago
Tesla drivers have been bitching about shitty auto wipers since the S, at this point I feel like they're just refusing to address it to fuck with us
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u/Kahnspiracy 3d ago
If they fixed the software, I'd pay for the $5 rain sensor myself.
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u/ShortTheseNuts 3d ago
I live where it rains over 300 days a year. The fucking wipers are literally an every day problem and Tesla just refuses to acknowledge it.
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u/Da_Spooky_Ghost 3d ago
I wish someone like S3XY dash would just make a Bluetooth rain sensor for Tesla’s. Just adhesive mount on the front of the dash under the windshield and they could make so much money from every single Tesla driver.
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u/Galactic-Buzz 2d ago
Woah, where is that? Is it heavy book reading rain or just dreary out
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u/ShortTheseNuts 1d ago
Bergen, Norway. And it's a mix but usually heavier. All the water sucked up from the Atlantic current gets dumped here against the mountains. Unique meteorological spot.
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u/leminhtri007 New to the sub 1d ago
Holy shit! Where is this? This would be my dream place to live.
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u/tempting_the_gods 3d ago
Have you had a car with rain sensors? They’re no better.
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u/rotarypower101 3d ago
Well they can’t be worse, and the vast majority believe they are consistently better from empirical experiences on many different platforms.
It’s such an inexpensive addition, wish a 3rd party built a standalone rain sensor that could intigrate into the OEM system on the switch with user adjustable speed, sensitivity, delay cadence.
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u/TeamRedundancyTeam New to the sub 3d ago
I feel like I'm the only person who has never had an issue with the wipers? My only problem is occasionally they will wipe one time at random, no rain, but it's just one up and down.
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u/fellbound 3d ago
When you can fly above the rain, you don't need windshield wipers.
/s
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u/hmspain 3d ago
If you can go 0-60 in less than a second, anything on your windshield is pretty much gone. /s
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u/ShortTheseNuts 3d ago
As someone who commutes at 250km/h on the Autobahn, this is surprisingly not true with the Model Y. It's like the wind almost locks the water in place passing over it and the car.
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u/Inevitable_Ad_711 3d ago
As someone who commutes through deadlocked Los Angeles traffic weekly, 155mph sounds like a nice change😂
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u/Equivalent-Love-1676 3d ago
LOL seriously though. What does a dedicated sensor cost, like really?
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u/thirdeyefish 3d ago
No sensors. Vision will solve everything. Everything. Only cameras and compute.
Seriously, though. I would like some of the sensors we used to have back. They did a better job.
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u/PoopyInThePeePeeHole 3d ago
<Sees clear blue sky with no objects>
Must be raining! Engage wipers at maximum!
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u/Equivalent-Love-1676 3d ago
They really, really did. But hey, Tesla might be saving 53¢ and 14 milliwatts per car LOL
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u/PoopyInThePeePeeHole 3d ago
I can guarantee you the CPU/compute cycles the car uses to struggle to determine the presence of rain consumes FAR more energy than a dedicated sensor.
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u/Easy-Reserve7401 New to the sub 3d ago
Are you nuts? They're soooo much more efficient and soooo much more intelligent(!)
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u/bloodguard 3d ago
Fair. I'm not sure I'd want to be in a flying car that panics whenever you're driving anywhere towards direct sunlight.
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u/Easy-Reserve7401 New to the sub 3d ago
Or a bridge. Or the shadow of a bridge. Or a cloud. Or the shadow of a cloud. Or a car on the other side of the road. Or a kerb. Or a tree by the side of the road. Or the shadow of a tree by the side of the road. Or a parked car on your side of the road. Or a line on the road. Or...
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u/Fit-Car9403 New to the sub 2d ago
It’ll freak out about all of that but then Pacman every single pothole and small road debris it can.
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u/Nunyafookenbizness New to the sub 3d ago
My wipers always seem to go off automatically at at two specific locations in my neighborhood.
Usually just smears. But why? There is no consistency, as it happens in the day and at night. Always the same two spots though.
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u/RealPropRandy 3d ago
Oh hey fresh bird shit. Lemme smear that for ya.
You’re welcome.
Hey why did you disengage FSD? Tell me. Tell me now.
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u/Ok_Main1059 3d ago
Lord this reminds me when the car told me to take over immediately so I did and it asked why I disengaged… like why do you think??
https://giphy.com/gifs/WRQBXSCnEFJIuxktnw1
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u/Not_stats_driven 3d ago
Those damn automatic wipers are the thing I hate most about the car.
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u/TheLastGenXer New to the sub 3d ago
i just dont want auto wipers.
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u/Not_stats_driven 3d ago
same. It would be fine if it remembered the last setting and didn't turn it on when you enable FSD.
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u/TwiceInEveryMoment 3d ago
It fucks up both ways too. There have been plenty of times where it's raining so hard visibility is limited to a couple car lengths, and the auto wipers don't come on at all, or they do, at the lowest speed.
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u/Evening-Juggernaut50 New to the sub 3d ago
I've had more issues with the heating/cooling system. I am always trying to adjust it to make it comfortable. It's like the fans are too loud, so turn it down, then it gets too hot, then too cold... and sometimes it says the car is on max cooling (I'm in SoCal which has been sooo hot this summer) and the fan speed is auto at like 3. I don't get why I am always having issues with it.
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u/ak_tyler New to the sub 3d ago
Does it know when there’s ppl in the back seat???
My sweaty little boy will and my wife will get in the back seat and the seat belt alarm will go crazy but the rear ac won’t turn on automatically
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u/Anand999 3d ago
What's annoying is that the car has access to weather data, including weather radar. Why can't they use that as an input into their wiper algorithm?
Weather says it's a bright sunny day? Bias the algorithm towards not turning on the wiper. Rainy day? Crank that sensitivity up.
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u/Active_Wasabi_1141 New to the sub 3d ago
Or. Or. How about they use the proven technology every other car has used for the last 30 years?
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u/Anand999 3d ago
I'm with you on that, I'm just throwing out a suggestion for how the auto wipers can be improved on the millions of Teslas that are already on the roads.
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u/Active_Wasabi_1141 New to the sub 3d ago
Fair play. Given they’ve already made the bad design decision to not put in the traditional sensor, how to improve it today.
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u/EuphoricCrashOut New to the sub 3d ago
It. Does. Not. Fly.
When it goes down a road and literally takes to the air like Back to the Future, flies around in the air for 5 or 10 minutes, and then lands back on the road... and continues driving... THEN I'll say it's a cool flying car. NOT A MOMENT EARLIER. I don't care how many falling barrel rolls it can do.
All you people calling it a flying car are making us all look like morons, and I hate it.
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u/sandefurian 3d ago
Old man yells at clouds
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u/EuphoricCrashOut New to the sub 3d ago
Found the propaganda bot! What a classic reply from the uneducated bot farm.
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u/LouisWinthorpe-III New to the sub 2d ago
It literally meets the dictionary definition of flight. By your logic did the Wright Brothers fly since it was only 120 feet?
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u/jeremyvr46 New to the sub 3d ago
Everybody knows and is just joking with it. Relax gramp’s! Take your pills and go back to bed.
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u/EuphoricCrashOut New to the sub 3d ago
What a classic response when you get called out. Be better. Drink your milk, and go back to school kid.
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u/TexFarmer 3d ago
No lie detected, and while you are at it, stop resetting the wipers to auto every time I turn on FSD.
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u/MuggyParadise2914 New to the sub 2d ago
So that’s not a coincidence. Thanks for clarifying. Been second guessing myself every time I go to set wipers to “off” after random wiper activations & they are set to “auto.”
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u/ImplementJumpy6678 3d ago
FSF here we come
Sorry I mean "Tesla Assisted Flying" in Europe naturally
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u/ScaredPatience2478 3d ago
Controversial take but I haven’t had as much problems with the automatic wipers
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u/scarface910 3d ago
Yeah it's a non issue for me. The constant lane changes and the lack of an option to stay in one lane or set speed on FSD is what annoys me to no end.
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u/LouisWinthorpe-III New to the sub 2d ago
Isn't that chill and sloth (at least with respect to staying in one lane)? My FSD disengagements seen to be based on Tesla's stance of "Google maps can map roads better than us" even though Tesla has millions of cars that could be reading speed limit signs, mapping work zones, and flagging google map errors on a daily basis.
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u/scarface910 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah chill and sloth does help with lane changes but I would love to set speed so that I'm not driving at 62mph in the right lane while everyone else goes 70+
And im with you on the maps, I have to disengage because FSD likes to go to the exit lane 2 exits before my actual one.
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u/7DollarsOfHoobastanq 3d ago
I’ll get like one random wipe per week on a dry day. Still a bug but nothing I worry about.
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u/cdurbin909 3d ago
It's something that annoys me occasionally, but not enough to complain about it 24/7
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u/Jealous-Yogurt5352 New to the sub 3d ago
I haven’t either. Full disclosure, I have only had my MY for 3 weeks.
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u/skanderbeg_alpha 3d ago
I live in the UK, where it can rain, be sunny and rain again in the space of an afternoon. Wipers, and build quality, are by far the worst things about my Tesla
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u/MrKittens1 New to the sub 3d ago
Mine are absolutely terrible, it's wrong 98% of the time... It's crazy bad.
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u/morebob12 New to the sub 1d ago
It’s a Reddit thing. Not actually a widespread issue and is far more exaggerated.
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u/Arespect New to the sub 10h ago
Talked to many Tesla owners throught the year in different parts of europe due to traveling and all had the issue.
Your issue is, lucky you aparently do not have the problem and when then others complain they do, you feel like they are making stuff up.
My wipers will activate randomly in perfect weather, will go fast for no reason when it just dribbles and the other day never activated even tho the whole windshield was full of water.
I've been to service and they said it works as intended, its still a beta.
I'm now at the point where it do not have Automatic on at all, its not a big issue for me, I'm capable of pressing a button every now and then :D. But given that I hardly know a tesla owner who doesnt have the issue, and then seeing you here being all "Oh its individuall cases". Sounds so much like when politics try to talk down a real social issue :d
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u/New_Conversation_303 New to the sub 3d ago
It will be very fun when the boosters start failing without notice...
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u/ThatIs1TastyBurger 3d ago
Can my Model 3 drop me off at work and then make me money as a robotaxi now? As promised in 2016
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u/EasternBoss6174 New to the sub 3d ago
Or when it just decides to wash the windshield and shoots wiper fluid all of a sudden out of nowhere!
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u/Academic-Sentence-34 New to the sub 3d ago
Now combine this meme with the FSD steering wheel wobbling after a small psi change in tire pressure
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u/No-Magazine-2739 New to the sub 3d ago
Ouch, the wiper automatic suck, not gonna lie. But well you win some, you lose some. When I would count such annoying stuff on a VW ID3 then my head would explode.
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u/Uhavetabekiddingme 3d ago
It's funny these cars are so technologically advanced, but can't figure out a feature that other manufacturers have had figured out for almost 40 years. GM introduced their system in 1996!
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u/Manmer_Nwah New to the sub 3d ago
Better update my home insurance to include roof damage from flying cars.
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u/OhNotypeO New to the sub 3d ago
Great, now everyone else is going to be complaining about a blue fluid whenever a Tesla flies overhead.
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u/astros1991 New to the sub 3d ago
Honestly though, do you guys still have it? I think it work really well nowadays.
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u/Wild_Height_901 3d ago
Am I the only one who thinks the auto wipers are fine? I prefer more sensitive setting.
But it feels pretty subjective on frequency preferences but I think it works well
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u/40yrs-energyindustry New to the sub 3d ago
Now, there's a useful thing, a car with rockets attached. Will Tesla sort-out the rain sensor also?
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u/iqisoverrated 2d ago
I dunno. Yesterday I was on the road for 3+ hours during wet/rainy conditions (half durng daylight and half during nighttime hours). Heavy rain, drizzle, no rain but spray from cars ahead (which always used to be a huge problem in the past for the autowipers)
...and the wipers worked flawlessly. Like...WTF? Was there an update to the algorithm recently? Whoever did that at Tesla, I'd like to buy them a beer. It took 8 years but now it actually works!
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u/Goman83 1d ago
The wipers are the worst of the whole car. So annoying. Today on a roadtrip I think I had to intervene 30 times. On my last Hyundai I never even thought about wipers anymore. This is purely Elon Ego here that camera’s can do it all. Well… they can’t. I’m a big fan of my Model Y, but this is just stupid.
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u/Alive-Material4405 New to the sub 1d ago
I just wish the phone would connect instantly when I get into the car instead of having to go into the bluetooth menu and select the phone every single time i open/close the door.
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u/No_Profession_3125 New to the sub 3d ago
I wish the actual car was as cool as the one in the fake AI rendering. 🥲
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u/Infamous-Umpire-2923 New to the sub 3d ago
I don't think I've ever had a problem with the automatic wipers on mine. Maybe I got the good one while you all ended up with the shit one.
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u/Davisr93 New to the sub 3d ago
The auto wiper function on my cybertruck is out of control, and if my cameras could quit telling me that they can’t see and I should get a service appointment while the sun is just blinding them, that would be great
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u/PurpleSausage77 3d ago
I don’t think I’ve ever had a vehicle with properly functioning auto wipers. Maybe I’m missing out, idk.
So far I prefer all my old vehicles with manually operated set and forget, no mental gymnastics other than changing 1 of 4 settings on the stalk.
Tesla engineers where u at, let’s have an AMA/chat
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u/allofdarknessin1 3d ago
Automatic wipers were terrible for a while but after the summer updates they've been significantly better.
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u/Fit-Car9403 New to the sub 2d ago
Mine catches a perfect ray of sunlight every morning through the trees when i’m parking in my spot at work, and like clockwork they kick on at max speed while i’m reversing into my spot.
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u/allofdarknessin1 1d ago
I had that on the daily as well. I just had a cleaning done for the front camera and haven't had that problem in a week. Car is trying to "wipe away" sunshine.
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u/Curious_Fly_5870 New to the sub 3d ago
What a complete pisstake, get the basics right, get your fucking head out of the clouds, Tesla is becoming a joke. Just wait for the Chinese cars to flood the market with their God’s Eye technology, built into the price of the car , not some shitty subscription to even park the car ….
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u/Offthewall1212 New to the sub 3d ago
No one talks about Musk and his companies more than a hater.😂😂😂
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u/Lou_Zealand New to the sub 3d ago
Heavy batteries + flight. Definitely making it to market. You only get three miles per charge though. Also, it costs $400,000, and it Rick rolls you randomly while driving, cause you know, like lolz.
Elon is such a twat.
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u/Sea-Sherbet2919 New to the sub 2d ago
This Reddit is just for Telsa hate, Telsa makes the first flying car. Ummmm actually…… shut the fuck up.
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u/Fibrosis5O 3d ago
Wipers ( Beta ) Supervised