How on earth… R1S rear camera has a sprayer???

[the long way downunder]

As news of this spreads, I wonder how many thousands of R1T owners will be rushing out to their truck to check …

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[lefkonj]

Interesting checked mine today and it is there. Never noticed it, which is a good thing. My A7 had sprayers for the cameras and sensors for cruise/etc/etc..... Thing went through washer fluid like the Titanic.

 

[QGessner]

Something tells me he doesn't need a sprayer!

Something tells me his tailgate is sore from over-use.

 

[Dark-Fx]

I just saw that too. My truck is obsolete apparently. Glad the R1S has the sprayer, and hopefully that's been added to recent R1T builds.

Not sure if it has been mentioned at all, but the R1S has two buttons on the end of the stalk whereas the R1T only has one. That said, I AM very curious on if the requisite hardware was transplanted onto the R1T if it would *just work*.

 

[NoGoingBack]

While I would love to have a sprayer on the rear camera on my R1T, a front sprayer is needed way more. Having my cruise control disengage because a bug hit the camera is really really frustrating. I’d happily pay for that upgrade! But really they could give us the option of a non adaptive cruise control like we have in tow mode for situations like this with a software update. Sun-glare, rain drops, bugs, so many things shut of the adaptive cruise. I really hope they come up with something for us. Ok rant over.

 

[AdamsFan1983]

While I would love to have a sprayer on the rear camera on my R1T, a front sprayer is needed way more. Having my cruise control disengage because a bug hit the camera is really really frustrating. I’d happily pay for that upgrade! But really they could give us the option of a non adaptive cruise control like we have in tow mode for situations like this with a software update. Sun-glare, rain drops, bugs, so many things shut of the adaptive cruise. I really hope they come up with something for us. Ok rant over.

Uhh you do, the windshield wipers. ADAS largely depends on the forward facing cameras near the rear view mirror cluster, not from your front fender.

 

[Dark-Fx]

While I would love to have a sprayer on the rear camera on my R1T, a front sprayer is needed way more. Having my cruise control disengage because a bug hit the camera is really really frustrating. I’d happily pay for that upgrade! But really they could give us the option of a non adaptive cruise control like we have in tow mode for situations like this with a software update. Sun-glare, rain drops, bugs, so many things shut of the adaptive cruise. I really hope they come up with something for us. Ok rant over.

??? My wipers definitely go over the camera in the windshield. Do you have some that are too short or something?

 

[NoGoingBack]

They must use a combination of both the top camera and the one in the grill for adaptive cruise. I’ve had to clean bugs off the lower one to get my adaptive cruise working again after being splat.

 

[SRO]

My 2017 Bolt camera washer was activated with the rear window wipers.

 

[atebit]

Something tells me he doesn't need a sprayer!

He might at the end of his workday.

 

[SeaGeo]

??? My wipers definitely go over the camera in the windshield. Do you have some that are too short or something?

This has been a source of confusion for me. ACC definitely has trouble in wet weather (even just wet roads), and doesn't seem improved by using the wipers. A friend of mine was messing around and as with @AdamsFan1983 is pretty confident it's using the cameras on the mirrors.

 

[carmigo]

I wanted to see a picture and this is much more than I expected... thanks?

 

[kpradeep1]

On my R1S, I had to put the car in drive (D) to get the spray working! There are two buttons at the end of the stalk, top button sprays front windshield while the bottom button sprays water to back windshield and back camera….jfyi.

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