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by natch 614 days ago
>they still start wiping in dry conditions

That's for safety if a flake of dirt or dust lands on the front window right over where one of the cameras are, it will do a wipe and try to get rid of the thing that is distorting the image. Or it will do it if you are driving straight into the sun sometimes, presumably because it's doing a best efforts action in case the visibility problem is further exacerbated by dust which can be cleared.

It's strange to me that actual helpful features are misinterpreted as flaws, but that's how it is with new technology I guess.

Failing to detect actual rain, yes I see that too a little sometimes. I think they should augment with audio detection. There is a microphone, obviously, for the speech button, and depending on how things are wired sometimes speaker cones can also be repurposed as microphones.
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bathtub365 613 days ago
Automatic wipers are not new technology and their implementation on cars that use actual rain sensors is much better than Tesla’s.
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bjarneh 614 days ago
> That's for safety if a flake of dirt or dust lands on the front window right over where one of the cameras are, it will do a wipe and try to get rid of the thing

Not that dry conditions. I live in Trondheim, where it rains/snows well over 200 days a year, so it's not wiping off some dry dust of the camera area. It just starts wiping the clean window in perfectly fine weather. At other times it rains quite a bit and it does not come on.

The software update to soft click the left stalk to engage the wiper menu via the left steering wheel roller is a nice quick fix for these situations, so they are doing something.

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natch 613 days ago
I was not saying that there absolutely is always dust there. I was saying the system is doing a best efforts action just in case there is dust or snow or other debris there which there sometimes is. I'm guessing they have birds in Trondheim.

I haven't tried the roller for the wiper menu, thanks for the reminder. Less rain around here.

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bjarneh 613 days ago
> I was saying the system is doing a best efforts action just in case there is dust or snow or other debris there which there sometimes is

I guess that could be the case; but they do seem quite random.

> I'm guessing they have birds in Trondheim.

We do, mostly seagulls where I park my car :-) But you're not dry wiping away anything they produce, that takes a good scrubbing.

> I haven't tried the roller for the wiper

It makes the experience fully controllable from the steering wheel using one hand, which is very good. One light press on the left stalk, and the menu pops up down on the left corner on the screen where you can roll to your preferred setting. I hate having to go into menus on the touch screen while driving.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-A5C33F3...

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