[bjarneh]

> 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.

[natch]

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.

[bjarneh]

> 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...