Conventional vs Beam Wiper Blades aerodynamic?
 

Which wipers have less air resistance while driving? flat or skeleton? Because one car had skeleton wipers at the factory and it is possible to have flat or hybrid ones.

Because they are messing with boundary layer flow, it isn't just one design over the other. Could also be down in the data noise area also and would be difficult to see much change

Most wipers are in the low pressure zone behind the air intake where the hood and windshield meat do they don’t have any affect on the aero. I even removed my wipers. Made no difference in testing

More economy to be had by long-lived blades in operation?

I think most missed the point, the aero wipers offered main attribute is to add contact pressure at speed enhancing their effectiveness in redirecting water off the windshield. Other purchaser misconceptions about positives are likely left to stand unaddressed by the manufacturers as good marketing for the g/dullible. The Aero positive effect of whatever it is, is also likely only during a very limited amount of the wipers arc in use.

Actually, I believe it is thought to be a high pressure, low velocity zone?

Depends on the vehicle architecture. Lamborghini Countach/Cypertruck have no discernable cowl. The Cybertruck stores the wiper longitudinally.

' speed '
 

Years back, ROAD & TRACK wrote that in a road test of one of the Lamborghinis, that before they hit the 205-mph top speed, the wipers had already completely lifted off of the windshield, straining against their preload tensioning springs.
And in the 1970s, Porsche added inverted, cambered 'wing' deflectors to their wipers, presumably to address the same issue.

That problem is of little concern to me, as I tend to stay under 200mph in the rain , and seldom take my Lambo out in it.

Seriously, we should be looking to aircraft wipers for inspiration on this topic.

' aircraft '
 

Tesla got the folks who built the wipers for the Space Shuttle to design the Cybertruck's unit.:)

The ultimate anti teardrop sub 100mph Cybertruck has wipers designed by Shuttle engineers?

That makes sense to me.:rolleyes:

Tesla hiring engineers that work from first principles. That makes sense to me. :cool:

Sub-100?

I think it's a low-poly teardrop. For fabricability's sake, tumblehome is substituted for curvature. It uses longitudinal vortexes to move air around the peak.

Using a Shuttle engineer(s) that has nearly relatively zero concern for drag and with an airframe that seldom if ever operates below 200mph for mere seconds on flare with extreme UV, temperature and massive sonic pressures to design wipers for a ground-based trophy truck with likely little aero concerns sounds like a fool's errand to me, beyond slick marketing hype, all principles aside.

I'll stick with Tiger while they figure out the design of the Tesla wipers

I'll stick with RainX.

Meanwhile, they're working on this:

https://cdn.motor1.com/images/custom...ow-cleaner.jpg
insideevs.com/news/457030/tesla-patented-innovations-future-cars/

Coincidentally, the next things I watched:

TEARING APART my Tesla Cybertruck made my mechanic want to RETIRE!!! And we found something BROKEN?

That wiper is limp as a noodle for half it's length, but the windshield washer is more trouble. And the exterior might be bullet proof, but the snap-on cover for the cabin filter is not.

' anti teardrop '
 

1) From my perspective, the Cybertruck silhouette represents the 'MOST' teardrop-like form of all production pickup trucks.
Simply park one over a shallow reflecting pool, and observe the 'mirror image'.
2) The Cybertruck's wiper wasn't designed by Shuttle engineers, they were designed by 'THE' Shuttle engineers who designed the wipers for the Space Shuttle.
3) Driving the Cybertruck 'Beast', at 85-mph on the toll-road between Austin and San Antonio, into the gust front headwinds we can expect, starting at 11:00 A.M. today, will place the wiper in a 145-mph airspeed environment.

' zero concern '
 

Rob Palin and Franz Von Holzhausen weren't given much to work with.
Personally, I'm very impressed.