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Oh man, as someone who has driven a tesla in the rain where the automatic wipers didn't work and I had to frantically dig through touch screen menus on the highway, this sounds all too real.

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There's still a physical button for the wipers. On the Cybertruck it's on the steering wheel. When you press it to wipe (generally used for spray-washing the windshield), the entire menu pops up where you can choose the speed, frequency, etc.

Mine also has a physical button, but it only triggers a single wipe. My workflow is usually press physical button, then touch the manual setting on the touchscreen to continuously operate.

You don't need to touch the screen after that. The left scroll wheel can navigate through the menu.

I discovered this by chance. And it seems to be subtly mentioned in the manual.

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

Wipers in on the stick or a dedicated button if a stickless version. Why not use that? It also brings up the selector on the screen if it the automation doesn't kick in after the manual trigger.

My auto-wipers on my 2018 M3 never seem to work at all. I always have to manually set it.

You can also hit right button and say “windshield wipers Speed 2” or similar.

But yeah it’s weird to have to do that as half the time Auto doesn’t pick the “right” speed in the rain. Either too fast or too slow.

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