R1T Rollover Flipped!

[Tony R1S]

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[Riviot]

They discovered the 'tank turn' Easter Egg!!

In Ukraine, they call that the Russian tank turn ?

 

[COdogman]

Wow. Truck just “rolled over” huh?

 

[Zoidz]

I saw this over on Reddit when it was first posted. Pretty brutal comments over there. What I believe I see that I think everyone else missed (and he for some reason did not mention) is that he hit a 12" - 18" depression in the ground. Look closely at the first picture to the right and behind the vehicle, and to the rear of the vehicle in the second picture. My completely amateur analysis says that the front right hit that depression first at lower speed (not 30-40 mph) and possibly while turning, it dipped, and he may have hit the brakes, all combined the forward momentum tipped the vehicle over. For those familiar with sailing catamarans, think "pitch pole". He clearly was not going like a bat out of hell - there would have been more body damage and scuffing from the vehicle sliding a good distance.

Amateur analysis complete - although I have seen this happen with a farm tractor.

 

[Forager]

Airbags went off, damage to every body panel. This will likely be the lowest resale price for an R1T.

 

[IRun]

Great... vampire drain of 1% a day, no car play or android auto and now spontaneous rollovers.

 

[Peasi520vT]

Couldn't have agreed with you more! I have driven many powerful vehicles in different environments. Multiple factors play a roll in these situations including road surfaces. This seems to be human error but can also be mechanical. Hopefully, he gets it all sorted out.

 

[Donald Stanfield]

I saw this over on Reddit when it was first posted. Pretty brutal comments over there. What I believe I see that I think everyone else missed (and he for some reason did not mention) is that he hit a 12" - 18" depression in the ground. Look closely at the first picture to the right and behind the vehicle, and to the rear of the vehicle in the second picture. My completely amateur analysis says that the front right hit that depression first at lower speed (not 30-40 mph) and possibly while turning, it dipped, and he may have hit the brakes, all combined the forward momentum tipped the vehicle over. For those familiar with sailing catamarans, think "pitch pole". He clearly was not going like a bat out of hell - there would have been more body damage and scuffing from the vehicle sliding a good distance.

Amateur analysis complete - although I have seen this happen with a farm tractor.

Why is there dirt and grass on the side facing up then? It looks as if it rolled over more than once, as in made a complete rotation. Your suggestion would get it to flip on its side maybe not roll all the way over. There is no where near enough momentum to do that on something with such a low center of gravity.

I'm no expert either so I could be wrong but it just seems like there is much more to this story than that

 

[brancky3]

Great... vampire drain of 1% a day, no car play or android auto and now spontaneous rollovers.

Ah yea totally "Spontaneous" ?

Surely no donuts were being done. The wind isn't blowing over a 7,000 lbs truck.

 

[Dark-Fx]

I saw this over on Reddit when it was first posted. Pretty brutal comments over there. What I believe I see that I think everyone else missed (and he for some reason did not mention) is that he hit a 12" - 18" depression in the ground. Look closely at the first picture to the right and behind the vehicle, and to the rear of the vehicle in the second picture. My completely amateur analysis says that the front right hit that depression first at lower speed (not 30-40 mph) and possibly while turning, it dipped, and he may have hit the brakes, all combined the forward momentum tipped the vehicle over. For those familiar with sailing catamarans, think "pitch pole". He clearly was not going like a bat out of hell - there would have been more body damage and scuffing from the vehicle sliding a good distance.

Amateur analysis complete - although I have seen this happen with a farm tractor.

There is damage on three sides of the truck. It was a 3/4 rollover, would be difficult to get the truck in that position from that hole. Guessing if they had their seatbelt on, it would not have been a rollover. Probably wrenched the steering wheel in the wrong direction as a result of the first impression.

 

[COdogman]

I saw this over on Reddit when it was first posted. Pretty brutal comments over there. What I believe I see that I think everyone else missed (and he for some reason did not mention) is that he hit a 12" - 18" depression in the ground. Look closely at the first picture to the right and behind the vehicle, and to the rear of the vehicle in the second picture. My completely amateur analysis says that the front right hit that depression first at lower speed (not 30-40 mph) and possibly while turning, it dipped, and he may have hit the brakes, all combined the forward momentum tipped the vehicle over. For those familiar with sailing catamarans, think "pitch pole". He clearly was not going like a bat out of hell - there would have been more body damage and scuffing from the vehicle sliding a good distance.

Amateur analysis complete - although I have seen this happen with a farm tractor.

You could be right. But when I see grass/ damage on the top side that tells me it rolled 1.25 times (coming from the right to the left)? The pic is zoomed in so we can’t see far enough to the right where he was actually driving - only part of the area he rolled on. So we still don’t know what he was doing. The story has a lot of red flags. People don’t typically drive out in an empty field to go slow Unless they were working and he didn’t say that. It’s a heavy truck, but most of that weight is on the bottom with the battery. Not that it can’t ever roll over, but I just don’t see how it rolls over going slowly as he claimed. He’s pretty vague when he says “easier than you think”. WTH does that even mean?

Rivian checking his truck means they will know exactly what he was doing and I have a feeling we won’t hear another word about this one.

 

[Speedrye]

To do a barrel roll like that on flat ground, I suspect you had to be going sideways to start with. One little bump and dip and over you go. Doesn't take much speed to do so, even with a low CoG, when those sidewalls bite into the ground.

Edit: I wonder if the flimsy sidewalls of the ATs contributed in that scenario...

 

[manitou202]

 

[Count Orlok]

I guess Rivian needs an Idiot Drive Mode

 

[Yellow Buddy]

Reminds me of that time when I had unintended acceleration on my truck when the light turned green. Luckily it resolved itself when the officer turned on his lights. Not sure what happened still..

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