windshield wiper fluid and lack of wiping effectively

[4Frodo]

I was curious is anyone else having issues with the windshield wiper cleaning the windshield effectively and where is the water that is coming out to clean it live at? anyone know> I tried trying to locate this but still its amiss for me. Has anyone's wiper gotten stuck in the down position and then you have to push the button on the steering wheel a 2nd time to get it to come back. feels a bit like a short or bug.

thoughts

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[Crissa]

When active, it's supposed to wait at the down position until there's water to wipe.

It might be an error, or it might be you're not waiting long enough. Bugs like this could be race cases which are hard to get a reproduction to test and solve.

We've heard others say the spray pattern is not always great, and individual wipers having weak spots and leaving behind water. So far, nothing that's the same across multiple trucks, that I've seen, either.

Good luck! Pictures might help if you can take the time.

-Crissa

 

[Jabman]

When active, it's supposed to wait at the down position until there's water to wipe.

It might be an error, or it might be you're not waiting long enough. Bugs like this could be race cases which are hard to get a reproduction to test and solve.

We've heard others say the spray pattern is not always great, and individual wipers having weak spots and leaving behind water. So far, nothing that's the same across multiple trucks, that I've seen, either.

Good luck! Pictures might help if you can take the time.

-Crissa

Yup. A lot of the modern designs base wiper fluctuation on pressure sensors in the windshield top margin. Even when you set the wiper sensors to high (on a traditional stalk design), you may get hesitation from the sensor and it’s almost a full flood against the windshield by the time it moves again. I don’t think any manufacturer has perfected this automatic function yet. Some are better than others. I will admit, on our Model S, it is particularly bad at sensing differentiations in rain intensity and often leaves the driver blinded by a windshield covered in water. This is not unique to the CT.
Also, the washer fluid is projected from the blade itself, and not from the base of the windshield, making it difficult to discern how much fluid has been applied/or is necessary to clean the glass

 

[Crissa]

Tesla is trying to use cameras to sense the drops, which has... Inconsistent results.

I don't know anyone who does it right.

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-Crissa

 

[CyberGus]

Every other auto manufacturer uses a pretty standard rain sensor with an estimated cost of $10 per car. While not perfect, it does a much better job of “sensing” raindrops than the current Tesla camera based system

if you go back on all the Tesla forums. There are pretty much no complaints of auto wiper performance until Tesla switched to a camera sensor to try and save costs and populate AI database.

Current Tesla owners are supporting Tesla’s cost cutting and AI aspirations with bad auto wiping performance. Only current solution is to just use the wipers manually. On and off. Just like a 1990s Honda Civic.

How are you ever going to trust a vehicle to drive itself unless it can visualize things like rain?

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