Tesla has a new windshield wiper cleaning routine that helps when the car is driving in robotaxi mode.
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Oh god
this is new? mine already routinely cleans the stupid cameras... on bright sunny days
Look at all the water it used. Time to stock up
Right after a car wash Is ideal
I wish the car would do this when necessary in FSD supervised.
Yea it’s effectively doubling the wiper speed over the cameras. Pretty clever.
It’s cool to see. Would be nice if they added that function like Mercedes has, where it slowly sprays fluid over the windscreen, so it has time to make the insects less sticky.
These cars need lidar
I don't think it would entirely fix the problem. You'd need a lidar system that could almost entirely replace the cameras - which I would assume would create a training problem as they have very little lidar ground truth data
Nope. Not needed at all.
Not sure this is new... FSD has always done great with wiping the camera portion of the windshield. It's the human viewed portion of the windshield it's terrible at. Edit: OK yeah I'm dumb, this is new behavior. Interesting!
I think the fact that the wipers are focusing on the camera area is new.
Lidar has problems with certain weather as well
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Do we really need *more* cars on the street with [LIDAR that burns camera sensors?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Volvo/comments/1ke98nv/never_film_the_new_ex90_because_you_will_break/)
It’s very heavy fog, but obviously lidar works much better for any given foggy conditions than cameras, since it creates its own light. It mainly loses spatial resolution because the heavier the fog, the stronger the scattering of the laser light.
Does it have a slower setting? It would be nice if we can get a wipe every 5+ seconds for when it's a light mist outside
Ok... Now make automatic wipers not suck on the rest of your cars. And stop making it switch to automatic while it does still suck.
In case you'd missed it, machine learning has allowed people to extract depth data from monocular video for at least a couple of years now. Lidar days are over.
Lidar fails in high fog, but also importantly uneven fog. And anything with reflective surfaces such as mirrored buildings, glass at certain angles, puddles are certain angles, directional rain, basically situations where the refraction in the air becomes outside of a certain range
The wiper system is the biggest issue I have with the car
Can this be updated OTA?
When necessary is the keyword. Just because the sun is setting doesn’t mean I need the wipers activated when my windshield is already clean. Sometimes the auto wipers make it worse!
How is this the top comment? Are bots upvoting this?
ironic, coming from DirtyTesla
Yes.
They should just have mini wipers only over camera.
What other car uses the windshield wipers in this fashion? Clearly you didn't watch the video.
The worst is when it does this *right after* I've washed the whole car.
Just go click on the link and watch the video. This is pretty unique.
That's pretty slick.
See the (Beta) toggle label, right? /s
🥲 Can relate
Automatic wipers have been significantly improved for a while now, at least that's my impression. Also people complain about it way less than they used to, so I would assume my observation is in line with others. The best way to tell if a problem has been fixed is seeing how many people complain about it. Phantom breaking, unprotected lefts, automatic wipers - they were all solved with a whimper, not a bang.
*swipe*
What is robotaxi mode? Is it same as FSD ?
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