The rain sensor is behind the driving mirror in contact with the windscreen and has the purpose of automatically adjust, during the intermittent operation, the frequency of the windscreen wiper strokes as to the rain intensity.
The sensor has a range of adjustment that gradually varies between wiper stationary (no wiping) when the windscreen is dry, to wiper at first continuous speed (continuous slow) with heavy rain.
See also:
Manual climate control system
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Six-Speed Automatic Transmission
The shift lever position display (located in the instrument panel cluster) indicates
the transmission gear range. You must press the brake pedal to move the shift lever
out of the PARK position (R ...