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Ok Guys, here's a legit complaint I have about my Model Y, and it's not FSD, nor Autopilot related. This is something that works well for almost all automakers, and worked well on my 2010 IS350... and Tesla can't seem to get it working properly, and that's automatic rain sensing wipers. I stopped using them because they just don't work properly. Even if it's lightly drizzling, they will go full speed like it's a downpour. When it stops raining, they just keep going. The squeaky noise gets in your head, and you have to turn them off.
Apparently the AI has a hard time visually distinguishing between hard rain and light sprinkles. Sometimes it sees an object, and thinks it's rain, or water on the windshield. Numerous updates, and still doesn't seem to be fixed. So, I just manually set them when needed.
I think a $1 rain sensor would do the trick, but Tesla apparently disagrees. Thankfully it's not a huge problem as the wipers are no longer set to Auto when using Autopilot, which was the case when I first got the car last year
Apparently the AI has a hard time visually distinguishing between hard rain and light sprinkles. Sometimes it sees an object, and thinks it's rain, or water on the windshield. Numerous updates, and still doesn't seem to be fixed. So, I just manually set them when needed.
I think a $1 rain sensor would do the trick, but Tesla apparently disagrees. Thankfully it's not a huge problem as the wipers are no longer set to Auto when using Autopilot, which was the case when I first got the car last year
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Next I drove the X7 about 15 minutes and at stop lights, the wipers were operating at a slow intermittent speed but what was impressive is that when I started driving it sped up and wiped at a normal amount.
Not really sure the difference in technology between the two but the X7 handled the drizzle perfectly.
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So it has been drizzling today and it was a very light drizzle and I did back to back testing today with my X7 and my Plaid. I had my Plaid out most of the morning and the strange thing is that with the wipers in auto, the drizzle was so light the wipers never went off and the windshield was nearly impossible to see out of until I manually turned the wipers on, this was on a 15 minute drive. The strange thing is typically in some light rain the wipers go full speed and are operating too fast to the point that auto was nearly worthless.
Next I drove the X7 about 15 minutes and at stop lights, the wipers were operating at a slow intermittent speed but what was impressive is that when I started driving it sped up and wiped at a normal amount.
Not really sure the difference in technology between the two but the X7 handled the drizzle perfectly.
Next I drove the X7 about 15 minutes and at stop lights, the wipers were operating at a slow intermittent speed but what was impressive is that when I started driving it sped up and wiped at a normal amount.
Not really sure the difference in technology between the two but the X7 handled the drizzle perfectly.
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So it has been drizzling today and it was a very light drizzle and I did back to back testing today with my X7 and my Plaid. I had my Plaid out most of the morning and the strange thing is that with the wipers in auto, the drizzle was so light the wipers never went off and the windshield was nearly impossible to see out of until I manually turned the wipers on, this was on a 15 minute drive. The strange thing is typically in some light rain the wipers go full speed and are operating too fast to the point that auto was nearly worthless.
Next I drove the X7 about 15 minutes and at stop lights, the wipers were operating at a slow intermittent speed but what was impressive is that when I started driving it sped up and wiped at a normal amount.
Not really sure the difference in technology between the two but the X7 handled the drizzle perfectly.
Next I drove the X7 about 15 minutes and at stop lights, the wipers were operating at a slow intermittent speed but what was impressive is that when I started driving it sped up and wiped at a normal amount.
Not really sure the difference in technology between the two but the X7 handled the drizzle perfectly.
So it has been drizzling today and it was a very light drizzle and I did back to back testing today with my X7 and my Plaid. I had my Plaid out most of the morning and the strange thing is that with the wipers in auto, the drizzle was so light the wipers never went off and the windshield was nearly impossible to see out of until I manually turned the wipers on, this was on a 15 minute drive. The strange thing is typically in some light rain the wipers go full speed and are operating too fast to the point that auto was nearly worthless.
Next I drove the X7 about 15 minutes and at stop lights, the wipers were operating at a slow intermittent speed but what was impressive is that when I started driving it sped up and wiped at a normal amount.
Next I drove the X7 about 15 minutes and at stop lights, the wipers were operating at a slow intermittent speed but what was impressive is that when I started driving it sped up and wiped at a normal amount.
Not really sure the difference in technology between the two but the X7 handled the drizzle perfectly.
Rain-sensing windshield wipers use an infrared sensor located near the rearview mirror that detects moisture on the windshield.
tesla looks up the weather forecast and guesses.
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It also worked perfectly on my 2010 IS350. Hello Tesla, $1 sensor
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I've driven and evaluated many different EV's over the last three years, and although many EV's have strengths over Tesla (comfort, suspension tuning, ride quality etc), Tesla still has the best EV, IMO. Their package of reliability, ease of use, readily available service centers, and of course charging infrastructure makes it my vehicle of choice. Not that I wouldn't get an EV from another brand (I have LoL), but those vehicles I would only lease. Tesla I feel 100 percent comfortable buying and owning over the long haul
really? ever used a camera in darkness? they suck. IR doesn't care.
ditto and still do... 365 has more bugs than the amazon rainforest. and we have to do 'sfc /scannow' on many machines a week to fix corruption, it's ridiculous. and don't get me started on windows printing issues at clients. then microsoft wraps a pile a bugs (like skype and sharepoint) in a new wrapper with a new name (teams) and markets the crap out of it. 
it's why i use a mac and google workspace.
ha, probably so, i guess they didn't answer his questions in the best way like "why CAN'T we just use vision cameras for everything and get rid of these pesky IR and radar' sensors since humans can drive with their eyes and headlights without them?" they probably said "well that might work, we don't know" and he then said "ok, do it".
I owe a large part of my IT career to Microsoft. End users thought I was brilliant fixing all those Blue Screens of Death
it's why i use a mac and google workspace.
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really? ever used a camera in darkness? they suck. IR doesn't care.
ditto and still do... 365 has more bugs than the amazon rainforest. and we have to do 'sfc /scannow' on many machines a week to fix corruption, it's ridiculous. and don't get me started on windows printing issues at clients. then microsoft wraps a pile a bugs (like skype and sharepoint) in a new wrapper with a new name (teams) and markets the crap out of it.
it's why i use a mac and google workspace.
ha, probably so, i guess they didn't answer his questions in the best way like "why CAN'T we just use vision cameras for everything and get rid of these pesky IR and radar' sensors since humans can drive with their eyes and headlights without them?" they probably said "well that might work, we don't know" and he then said "ok, do it".
ditto and still do... 365 has more bugs than the amazon rainforest. and we have to do 'sfc /scannow' on many machines a week to fix corruption, it's ridiculous. and don't get me started on windows printing issues at clients. then microsoft wraps a pile a bugs (like skype and sharepoint) in a new wrapper with a new name (teams) and markets the crap out of it.
it's why i use a mac and google workspace.
ha, probably so, i guess they didn't answer his questions in the best way like "why CAN'T we just use vision cameras for everything and get rid of these pesky IR and radar' sensors since humans can drive with their eyes and headlights without them?" they probably said "well that might work, we don't know" and he then said "ok, do it".
We use our Windows server domain controllers as print servers, and rarely have issues with printing. Occasionally the desktop guys reset the Print Spool service, and that usually fixes the issue