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R1S, Lucid Gravity, Kia EV9 if you must have three rows.

I once lost braking in a '90s Ford Explorer going down a steep hill while towing - engine braking wasn't sufficient to keep to an acceptable speed, so I had to ride the brakes. Overheated them near the end of the hill (thankfully) and had to engine brake to a stop going up the very slight uphill...

My wife was *REALLY* looking forward to the lane-change-signal-cancel (she always left-signals too far when changing lanes.)

That sounds like a mechanical failure with the brake pedal. Rivian brake pedal isn't "drive by wire", it is actually physically connected to the brakes. It should depress all the way to the floor regardless of powertrain/12V failure to stop the vehicle - although when towing a trailer without...

Frak. I just updated to .10, and was going to swap my tires out tomorrow! (275/60R20 for the stock 275/65R20s.) Maybe I'll wait for a fix before swapping tires.

Blue Origin has been using Rivian's from the start. There's an (in)famous photo of William Shatner crammed into the middle seat in the back row of an R1T on his way to the launchpad: I guess they either didn't have the R1S yet, or were too cheap to use an extra vehicle. And they didn't even...

It's possible in any vehicle. Every single vehicle model has had at least one "can't stop!" incident happen. Sometimes they're sudden hardware failures, sometimes they're design faults, often they're user error of some kind. This one sounds like a sudden hardware failure, but it could be a...

"Spaceflight participants" is what the FAA/NASA calls them. To be an "astronaut", it has to be your job. Anyone else, "spaceflight participant".

Sure looks like it's a left-hand-drive. But hard to tell for sure. The trip does look like it's nearly all on continental Europe, so LHD is probably preferred.

RIP Mythic Quest. (They just announced it won't be returning for another season, and they will be updating the final episode this coming week to have a new ending to make it clear that the show is over.)

Reminder: Just because Rivian now owns ABRP doesn't mean the people who are day-to-day involved with ABRP have any inside knowledge about Rivian vehicles. From what I can tell, ABRP is still essentially being run as a separate company.

Newer EVgo locations are "EVgo network run", older stations are "EVgo is just the equipment supplier." The newer locations also tend to be better maintained.

Yep. Many years ago between jobs, I took a temp job working at an accounting firm. They had just acquired another firm's business - a firm that specialized in high-net-worth families - but because of various contracts, they weren't allowed to transfer the original files, they had to photocopy...

More expensive than the Tri was supposed to cost: (The price in narmstrong79's screenshot includes $7500 "savings", the original prices didn't.) And the Tri was supposed to go 500 miles for that price...

"Require"? Two. The bolt tightening "recall" and the seat belt "recall." Took in for minor concerns? One - minor panel gap that annoyed me enough at delivery that I scheduled to have it fixed. I also had one that was my own damn fault - slid into a tree on ice at low speed, had to get the...

And this is the least-objectionable way for a CEO to earn money. Unlike Musk, who just gets granted shares, almost never sells them, and draws no salary. He pays almost no taxes. He just gets ultra-low-interest bank loans against his shares, with a lump-sum payment due a few years later, not...

What they neglected to mention with that disclaimer is that the editor was AI, too...

My insurance company calls my Ford Mach-E "2021 Ford Truck". If my Mach-E can be a truck, an R1S is definitely a truck.

Rivian *NEVER* said Gen 1 would have Tesla FSD-level self-driving. If "Rivian folks in the know" told you, they were wrong. Rivian's statements have always been that they are "working toward a self-driving vehicle" (until they removed even that claim with the launch of the Gen 2. Presumably the...

I've never been unable to continue driving, but I have driven to 0 miles/0% and arrived at a charge station only able to drive about 5 MPH. If the station had been nonworking, I would have been stuck there, I doubt I could have even backed out of the stall. My wife got this screenshot of the...