Key Takeaways

Scroll the Tesla left steering wheel up/down to control the wiper speed directly Press the Tesla wiper button to cycle through 4 wiper speed settings Intuitive temporary Tesla fix while awaiting promised permanent autopilot solution Addresses previous clunky Tesla tilt-to-control wiper speed method

Tesla’s newest 2024.14.3 software update has many new features and changes to the visual interface, but the most popular addition is the following change to the wiper controls:.

The way the automatic windshield wipers work on Tesla cars has traditionally been a weak point and a significant source of frustration for Tesla owners.

The frustrated driver often finds the wipers working hard on a bright, sunny day because a bug splattered, and the camera thinks the splatter is a raindrop.

Tesla’s wipers could work slowly or not react at all while pouring rain on the windshield.

At least Tesla introduced physical controls to fix the erratic wiper speeds in case the auto wiper function doesn’t work right.

The Tesla 2023.20 update, for example, finally brought wiper controls to the steering wheel via the left scroll wheel. This was still a clumsy solution since Tesla assigned the wheel’s rarely used tilt function to control wiper speed with awkward movement.

In the newest 2024.14.3 update, though, Tesla gives up on the tilting motion, and now the driver can control wiper speeds by scrolling the wheel up or down more logically. Or, one can go through the four Tesla wiper speed settings by pressing the control button.

“When you press the wipers button to view wiper controls, you can now adjust wiper speed by moving the left scroll wheel up or down,” Tesla tips in the update changelog, and adds that “when you have the wipers set to I, II, III, or IIII, you can press the wipers button to cycle through speeds.”

These are welcome changes while people wait for a real auto-wiper solution from Tesla. Hopefully, this small scroll wheel control change isn’t what Tesla meant when it said a fix will “go out soon” for how automatic wipers behave in Autopilot mode.