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Thanks for this. It confirms what I was speculating about earlier. They don't do a canary deploy to any vehicles running production software. Those "developer build" Rivian's they tested on probably had the developer certificates, so the build worked. They need to test on vehicles that have...

Which would have been caught if they'd done a canary rollout to any (even 1) vehicle that had only ever run production builds. In my opinion that's a huge process miss by not doing a canary first. A canary deploy can't catch all issues. But it really seems like it would have caught this one.

You could very well be right about Rivan not wanting to publicize this too widely because it looks bad. I worked at a fairly well known Payments / Point of Sale company for many years and in the early days the executive team did not want to have a public status page because they were worried it...

Yeah, I don't know much about best practices in embedded software development or automotive computer architectures. But I know a whole lot about deploying and operating software for highly available online systems. And from what I can tell from this incident, Rivian isn't doing a few basic best...

I've been curious about this too. I would think these cars would keep the last known good version of the software on a recovery partition or similar and auto-rollback when an update fails to complete. But even if they do have that, it might not be well tested enough and something about this...

I haven't listened to this yet, but just glanced at a summary of the argument and I'm a little skeptical. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like the core of Gladwell's argument is that lots of testing couldn't show the issues. But from the software analysis I've seen, it seems like...

I was hooning a bit a couple of weeks ago and hit the brake with my right foot while I was still on the accelerator a little bit, and the truck came to a hard stop. It felt like it cut all accelerator input as soon as it got any bake input. Though I'm a little wary to go test this again. It...

I know the simplest explanation here is driver error, mashing the accelerator instead of the brake and staying on it. Things can happen fast, and human reaction times can be slow. From the video it does look like the truck was acceleration through the intersection. Who knows if we'll ever know...

I had Blizzaks on my Volvo C40 last winter, and they did great. My only issue was not enough ground clearance when the county plow hadn't been through recently. I'm running Hakka R5s this year, my other option was the x-ice. Hoping the R5s are good, because I paid substantially more for them...

Thanks for this post l. Makes me glad I got Hakkas. I’m full time in Tahoe and it’s snowing right now. I have 22” rims. Running Hakkas since last week. when I first got the truck I debated 22s vs 20s, and wanted to make sure I could have the best winter performance. Still might end up getting...

Yeah, we have 2 cars right now, and might get a 3rd in the next 1 - 3 years. It would be something smaller, easier to drive and park in the city. I'd consider an R2, but only if Rivian substantially improves build quality by then. Otherwise it would probably be a Volvo, Porsche or maybe Polestar.

I totally agree!

I have anecdote, you have a data. I think data wins! Just checked our Bronco's vin, no recalls on it, somehow...

I was just talking with my wife about this, and I noted that if Rivian was willing to put this truck in my hands with so many obvious issues, it really makes you wonder what other places they are cutting corners. She said she actually has some fear for her safety when driving or riding in it...

We also have a 2022 Ford Bronco, and while I don't like driving it nearly as much as the R1T, it's been flawless. No quality control issues at all. Only thing I can complain about is it's a hardtop and has a fair amount of wind noise from the passenger side when driving at highway speeds. But it...

Yeah, this is the kind of thing that makes me wonder what the heck they are doing when they assemble these things? And yours is not the first issue like that I've heard people talking about.

Been thinking about product quality and how I feel about Rivian in general. Love the performance, and features. Love the frequent OTA updates with meaningful additions and improvements. Quite disappointed with the lack of quality, mostly in how they put the things together. Previously I'd...

Porsche seem to be experts at nickel and diming you into thousands or tens of thousands of dollars in more options just to get features that are standard on a Mazda 3.

Yeab you have to call the service number and ask for a 2nd fob. It may require a service visit to program it, or they might be able to mail it to you. I also find the lock/unlock situation annoying. Somewhat worse than the Volvo C40 I had before. Touch the door handle to lock, put your hand in...

Looks like under AZ lemon law they get 4 tries or a total of 30 days to try to fix it. after that they have to either buy it back or give you a new one. It’s not clear to me who gets to choose which remedy. From: https://www.azag.gov/consumer/auto