We’ve lastly seen a video of a Cybertruck windshield wiper in motion, which ought to put relaxation to the controversy of whether or not or not the absurdly giant wiper is practical or not.

Ever for the reason that Cybertruck was first proven to the general public, folks have puzzled how the big entrance window can be cleaned. Early prototypes had an enormous windshield wiper, then later prototypes had a smaller one. We’ve even seen them with none wiper in any respect as lately as a number of weeks in the past, although the window nonetheless had a spot that appeared prefer it may maintain a wiper.

All through all of those movies and photographs, we’ve by no means seen the wiper truly working. No one managed to catch the truck out within the rain in sunny California or Texas.

However now we’ve lastly seen a video of the Cybertruck’s wiper in motion with drone video right now over Tesla’s Texas Gigafactory facility.

Right here’s the complete 4k video posted to youtube by Brad Sloan (with spectacular decision and zoom, effectively achieved Brad). The hyperlink is timestamped to 12:53 when the Cybertruck portion begins (wiper begins transferring at 13:42):

The truck appears to be present process some kind of aerodynamic testing, parked on a rotating platform in entrance of an airflow simulator constructed from transport containers. It was noticed in the identical place yesterday, however the video isn’t almost nearly as good.

Nevertheless, this isn’t a real wind tunnel, because it’s not giant sufficient for the truck to be parked totally inside. So it wouldn’t actually help evaluation of airflows off the car, since you don’t have entry to the identical instrumentation or managed atmosphere as a wind tunnel. There aren’t very many automotive wind tunnels around the globe, they usually’re very costly.

However this might, at the least, assist to confirm the windshield wiper’s performance at pace, which appears to be what’s occurring right here.

An worker (who notes they’ve been noticed at 13:23) is standing exterior the truck with a twig bottle, and is seen spraying it onto the windshield. The video has spectacular decision… however not fairly sufficient to see particular person water droplets.

It additionally appears like Tesla is ready to document assessments like this, with a tripod standing on the high of the tunnel’s exit. Although the shadow of the tripod exhibits that it might or will not be holding up a digicam.

Within the video, we will see that the sweep of the only big wiper blade does certainly cowl a lot of the truck’s monumental windshield, minus the nook above the passenger facet.

With such a big windshield, this ought to be sufficient to not obscure anybody’s view. Once we took a brief trip within the Cybertruck on the unveiling occasion, the inside and windshield felt monumental.

We nonetheless don’t know if that is the ultimate type of the wiper – it might change designs cosmetically earlier than the truck comes out. And it nonetheless appears much like the wiper that Tesla CEO Elon Musk stated wouldn’t be on the ultimate model of the truck.

However we will’t think about they’d be testing a wiper like this, solely months earlier than the supposed starting of manufacturing until it was one thing near its closing type, so it appears just like the wiper is more likely to present up in the same incarnation on the ultimate car.

The Cybertruck was initially slated to come back out by late 2021, however has been pushed again a number of instances. Most lately, Tesla says manufacturing will begin this summer time, however summer time is quickly approaching, so we’ll have to attend and see.