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If you're in a rainstorm and the wipers are set to "minimum speed" then turning the speed up would be critical.

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The safe thing to do would be to pull over first, as you see the rain getting heavier, then adjust.

I can immediately think of several situations where that is not at all possible to do.

Construction, cliff roads, country roads, etc.

Tesla are unsafe death traps by design.

> Tesla are unsafe death traps by design.

This is completely untrue by third party metrics (both governmental and not).

They meet crash standards, yes. But the interior design of them encourages unsafe driving. Between putting almost everything inside a touch screen and pushing autopilot (which encourages drivers to pay attention less), they are creating more distractions from controlling their 2-ton metal boxes.

Drivers are licensed operators of heavy machinery that travels at high speed. Let's not encourage systems that turn us into more dangerous operators.

If they were "death traps" the stats would have them as the most dangerous cars on the road rather than one of the safest (in terms of deaths per mile). The grandparent was speaking absolute nonsense.

A tank would be safes car, statistically - its just deadly to wveryone else.

So, what to do on a motorway?

I get the impression you’ve never driven in the rain.

Why wouldn't the safe thing be to reach out from the steering wheel with one of the fingers of your right hand, and move the little slider thing on the wiper switch to increase the wipe speed?

You know, like on my appallingly primitive 1998 Range Rover, or pretty much anything from the same era?

Yes because pulling over on a multi lane highway in the rain when you have poor visibility and then trying to merge into traffic is much safer.

Besides, what if you are on the road with no shoulders.

Shut up Elon. Your cars suck.

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