Tesla to rollout auto wipers improvements and fixes which still haunts users

When it comes to automated driving stuff, you must start the queue with Tesla but there’s a major issue in its auto wipers feature which still haunts Tesla car owners.

Tesla cars have an auto wipers mode, which detects whether or not it is raining. When liquid is detected on the windshield, the car chooses the optimal speed of the wipers. It doesn’t operate if there’s no liquid detected on the windshield. In the background, the feature utilizes the car’s sensors and cameras to automatically activate the wipers.

Yesterday,  social media user @somi_teslagirl posted a short video of a malfunction in the auto wipers. The user shows how the Tesla model was unable to detect the moisture on the windshield and did not trigger the wipers to clear the view.

The user also explained how the car kept on waiting at the time when the driver manually activated the wipers. It further suggests how relying on auto wipers may compromise visibility on the road in different scenarios.

It is not the first time that someone has reported such issues while operating the auto wipers. This feature in particular has a history of criticism and malfunction from Tesla users.

Credit: Reddit

Last year, Tesla CEO, Elon Musk also acknowledged the issue and apologized to a user who asked to “cancel auto wipers in autopilot”. Musk replied “Sorry, this is one of the last neural nets to be updated to surround video (from a single camera, single frame).

The core of this issue includes unusual and unresponsive behavior of auto wipers as they sometimes start wiping the windshield in broad daylight. In that regard, a Senior Staff Engineer at Tesla AI division, Yun-Ta Tsai said that new improvements to auto wipers will be released soon.

The new improvement should go out soon.

— Yun-Ta Tsai (@YunTaTsai1) February 19, 2024

This comment was well received by the X users and they welcomed the move but Tsai shared no details about a potential rollout date.