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Thanks for more details! If I had to guess, and just a guess, because both cars are dark colors the mere 1 deg difference is small enough that there could be other, very minor factors at play. Oh, to have a bunch of cash to burn. We could buy Teslas (and Rivians!) of different color...

I've been muddling over tint and interior car heating for the past few days (see the other thread), and after futzing around with some simple calculations it seems like the importance of UV blocking to prevent interior heating is a secondary (or even tertiary) consideration. The primary...

This is great info, thanks for posting. I've been trying to find a succinct summary of CO tint laws, and ran across this: WINDSHIELD: Must allow in at least 70 percent of light FRONT SIDE, BACK SIDE, & REAR WINDOW: Must allow in more than 27 percent of light Is that your understanding as...

This makes me happy -- a fun experiment with control and interesting results! Out of curiosity in what are potentially second-order effects: did the two Teslas have the same interior and exterior colors?

Great post! Unlike @thrill I do not have formal experience with the technical details behind machine learning, but I have some related experience and classes. I know to never underestimate technology, but I think safe and reliable self-driving cars are still a ways off. I hope it happens, it...

My bad, I misunderstood your earlier message and thought you installed the PPF on the inside of the glass roof. For heat rejection it does seem to make more sense to put it out the outside. But this is where my inexperience with tint applications kicks in. From what I've read so far, tinting...

Copy that, thanks for letting me know.

This is really awesome gumshoe work, thank you! Not a network person, so pardon the basic question - any insight into what the vehicle is sending to these locations, in addition to a list of the locations themselves? It seems like you're referencing that in your last post, but I don't know...

This is a really interesting thread. I’m also thinking about what a glass roof will do to interior temperatures during both summer and winter. I’ve never added tint or ppf to a vehicle, so all these options are new territory for me, and apologies in advance for the noob stumbling. I was...

First, sincere tip of the hat to all those folks with vehicles who are answering the community's questions. As others have said, you are doing Rivian's work for them, and it shouldn't have to be that way. My question: where are the microphones, or microphone (singular)?

For those of you who have your R1T, how about blasting out "Still haven't found what I'm looking for" by U2 for the R1S crew?

Short answer is approximately yes. Rubberneckers allowed outside, but inside. Slightly longer story: just yesterday I saw my first wild sighting of an R1T, i.e. the truck driven by a person on roads. Fortunately we were at a long red light and the windows were open, so I could chat with the...

Oh dear -- no claims about being interesting here. It's just the principle of data collection to which I object. Plus, given that I'm not interesting, then Rivian (and other companies) should give me and other uninteresting people the option to opt out of data collection.

Yes, yes, and yes. There is always, always worse. I'm in technology, so I'm a fan of technology, but I know that technology is almost always a two sided sword. And the part of the sword that cuts the wrong way with unfettered personal data collection is the erosion of all sorts of personal...

Ha! But sell yourself short! I'm sure you're a fascinating person with plenty of unique skills. Also, keep in mind that all of this personally identifiable information can be used for identify theft. I have colleagues and acquaintances who have suffered identity theft and IT. IS. AWFUL...

Ha! Yeah, I get really creeped out by just how much things do seem like 1984 these days. Life imitating art . . . The doublespeak of Rivian is just one of many examples, but I feel it can still be helpful to point it out when it occurs. Their "respect privacy" statement is just flat out...

Very thoughtful response, thank you. I appreciate that in a very practical sense total privacy with the internet, and now the internet of things that is expanding to vehicles, is hard to achieve. However, I think there is a happy medium, and right now companies are running unchecked into the...

Yes, good point! I neglected to given a shout out to folks who have resonated with this idea in the past, so a thanks to @R_1_T , @PastyPilgrim , @Zool , @Speedrye , and @AxelR for their previous discussion on this topic. And thanks to you all for your responses to this thread, too. Though...

Who cares about privacy? First, to the extent that one can be a fan of a vehicle that one has never seen in person, I am a fan of the Rivian vehicles. The R1S is, in many ways, the vehicle I have been waiting to own for a long time. However, Rivian’s approach to privacy is alarming at best...

Rivian --- oh, geez. The red flags are accumulating. I was on the fence about the IPO, this latest news settles the situation. I'm not going to invest in a company that acts like this. If they can meaningfully address this in the 12-??? months it takes to deliver the LE R1S I have on order...