The Tesla Cybertruck's giant windshield wiper's dirty secret revealed

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A new image of the Tesla Cybertruck reveals how well its large single windshield wiper clears the glass area of the all-electric pickup truck.

is over 6 feet tall, 19 feet long and has a flat enormous windshield that is like nothing on any pickup today.

During the vehicle's longer than planned development, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said there was"no easy solution" to designing a wiper for the windshield.The Cybertruck's single wiper stows vertically along the roof pillar.Images of prototype trucks indicate that it stows vertically along the driver's side roof pillar when not in use and otherwise works conventionally, but how well?

Tesla designer Franz von Holzhausen posted an image to Twitter of him standing in front of a dusty Cybertruck in a construction site at Tesla's headquarters in Austin, Texas, after taking it for a test drive. first pointed out that you can see the area cleared by the wiper by the dust that has been left. It reaches most of the glass, but leaves a large section of the top corner on the passenger side unswept.Federal regulations require that wipers clear 80% of the windshield, and it appears to meet if not exceed that standard, but the remaining patch may prove to be unsightly for the person sitting behind it.

It was long enough to reach the sides, but dipped as it passed the vertical position to clear the top of the windshield. Cost and maintenance issues led to its discontinuation.

 

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I'm sure that all of the farmers will be falling over each other to get one of these trucks. It will probably haul at least one bale of hay. OutOfTouch

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