Tesla AI engineer teases automatic wipers fix in Autopilot mode

One of the biggest complaints about Tesla cars - the wipers' erratic behavior in automatic mode - is about to be resolved "soon," according to its AI engineer. It remains to be seen what the promised "new improvement" for Tesla wipers not wiping in torrential rain while cruising the highway on Autopilot entails, though.

Mum's the word if the automatic Tesla wipers fix will include a solution for those instances when the wipers suddenly engage on a road trip during a sunny day because of a smashed bug, or during a night drive as they get bamboozled by headlights.

Tesla automatic wipers mode fix

Tesla did address some of its known wiper problems by simply giving drivers physical controls with the buttons and scroll wheel that can turn them on and off or adjust their speed to slow down the sometimes frantic performance that results from a light drizzle.

What Tesla's AI team member Yun-Ta Tsai now suggests, however, is that the upcoming "new improvement" concerns the wipers behavior in automatic mode while on Autopilot and FSD. That's the biggest concern and the promise that an update to fix it will "go out soon" was given in a reply to post that demonstrates the problem.

Once the driver switched to manual mode, the wipers started working as they should if there was a proper rain sensor installed and the car didn't just rely on the camera software to give it instructions when and how to activate the wiper in automatic mode.

There are plenty of theories why Tesla's cars can't figure out automatic wipers, but a potential fix will now apparently involve the team responsible for machine learning and artificial intelligence. 

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