I was hoping this conveyed itself through the post but it seems not. In manual mode (which is limited to the $4,500 bikes), you do get pedal resistance. Pedal in 8th “gear” from a stop and it’ll be hard. Pedal in 1st gear at 15MPH and nothing will happen. But that’s only in manual mode. In...
I hear you on that. I also suspect that it would be fairly trivial to add GPS based restrictions for trails given the bike has on-board GPS and cellular connectivity should they decide to do so voluntarily or following new regulation.
I just spent the day in San Francisco riding a bike unlike any other I’ve ever ridden. This is it. It’s not your average looking or functioning bike—and that may not come as a surprise once you hear it’s the result of that secret skunkworks project that spun out of automaker Rivian earlier this...
Hopefully this isn’t considered self-promotion, but I think many here will find it interesting. Rivian loaned me a gen 2 media car for a week to test out the new hands-free Enhanced Highway Assist as part of the new gen 2-exclusive Rivian Autonomy Platform.
I also compare it to Tesla FSD...
The title says it all, folks! Rivian has invited me to moderate a Q&A fireside chat with Wassym Bensaid this Wednesday, November 20th, at their Cars & Coffee event at the LA Auto Show. I'm here to ask for questions you have that you'd like me to ask!
Got questions you'd like me to ask? Wassym...
UGH! I totally forgot to honk. Some folks at Rivian were teasing me for asking and I’m like… no this is a big deal but then I fumbled and forgot to.