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There's a physical button to turn on the wiper. It just doesn't have the full range of controls for speeds and on/off as physical controls as the automatic wipe
by pedrocr 6y ago
There's a physical button to turn on the wiper. It just doesn't have the full range of controls for speeds and on/off as physical controls as the automatic wipers are supposed to be used instead. The automatic wipers aren't particularly good though which is why people end up fiddling with the controls. The touchscreen interface isn't too bad, it only takes a single touch, but it's not like the tactile experience of a physical stalk with all the wiper options.
- mcguire 6y agoThe article claims "In this case, the driver had to navigate software menus and then choose from one of five settings, after touching an icon."
- pedrocr 6y agoHe didn't have to do that, that's another way to reach the same place. If you press the physical button that turns on the wipers the software menu is displayed as well and it only takes one touch to do anything else.
- giancarlostoro 6y agoThis sounds like a bad UI. They should really follow the Zen of Python principle "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."
- pedrocr 6y agoI wouldn't say that problem exists, there's a single UI that gets brought up from either the physical button that also runs the wipers once or the on screen button. The UI is very obvious it just forces you to look at it. Having the UI in the top of the screen would probably be a good idea so that more of the road stays in your field of vision.
- giancarlostoro 6y agoI think a lot of these systems should definitely have buttons besides the touch screens so you can physically feel them out and touch them after you glance quickly, cause touching a touch screen involves looking at the screen, unlike pressing a button.
- mcguire 6y agoBut he didn't have to press the physical button. The wipers start automatically, right?
- pedrocr 6y agoThe automatic wipers are famously bad because Tesla decided to save money on the sensor and try and detect rain with image processing instead. Even after many updates they're still not great. So it's perfectly possible to need to turn on the wipers manually in some situations but the physical button is by far the most convenient way to do that.
- mcguire 6y agoWhat happens if the wipers start automatically, but you need to adjust the speed?
- marvin 6y agoThe wipers have 5 modes: Off, 1, 2, 3, Auto. Auto will keep wiping as long as it figures there's water on the windshield. If you want a different speed, you need to go into the touchscreen. If you want a single wipe, you can press the button on the steering wheel controls. This would also bring up the touchscreen menu for wiper speed directly, for a 1-touch change. Or 2-touch, if you count the steering wheel stalk button press.
- arethuza 6y agoIt sounds like it was the setting for frequency of intermittent wiping?