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I don’t know that would be helpful. I hate digging through my Tesla’s menus to control the wipers even though it is very responsive.

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In newer software versions, you should be able to control the wipers with the left scrolling wheel, right after you have activated them with the push button on the left arm.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modelx/en_us/GUID-A5C33F3....

Small consolation ... but it's no substitute for poor design.

Two poor decisions. One is to not use a real rain sensor and the second is not to pay a couple bucks to put a physical dial on the stalk. My other cars i don't even need to mess with the wiper controls because the rain sensor works great.

In a Tesla, you can press the physical button on the left stalk to operate the wipers. Pressing that button performs two actions at once:

1. The wipers perform a full sweep, clearing the windscreen.

And

2. The wipers' configuration appears on the screen, ready to be set to any configuration with a single tap.

I did not like it at first, but after some practice it really works well. I still hate the AC controls, though, and must enable lane keeping before even trying to adjust the climate.

You can put the wipers icon at the bottom bar now, that makes it much better.

That's us solving a problem that hasn't existed until few years ago nor should exist in first place. Tesla is really trying to reinvent the wheel here

I'm not sure how they got the idea that it's ever acceptable to need to press a button to open a menu in order to turn wipers on. Particularly when the rain sensor is so bad that auto is basically useless.

The problem is that there is no rain sensor :)

Well, something is trying to make the wipers work automatically. It's just not very good at it.

It’s vision from the forward facing camera behind the rear view mirror (iirc)

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