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The annoying thing about this is that you usually won't know they have failed until you really, really need to use them. Poor design, poor execution.

In some states the clock starts running from the date the first issue occurred.

I will sell you my entire G1 Mobileye system in return for some 12V outlets and cameras and speakers which don’t suck.

The Rivian service experience is still like early Tesla--there can be good service, if you can get an appointment. Unfortunately, appointments are extremely difficult to get because service demand is so high; Rivian doesn't know how to build cars and they're full of defects. Opening a new...

I suppose Rivian could be pumping noise into the car in order to reduce service calls from noisy air suspensions, HVACs and rattles.

Why is Rivian hellbent on emsculating, and eviscerating, all the great features of this car? Is it to fund more software and driver assist nonsense? They're just enlarging the window of opportunity for Scout.

Rivan range loss has been non-existent for me. That's in contrast to my experience with Tesla, where I lost about 5% in the first two years. Now, I happen to never get Rivian EPA rated mileage, but that's another matter.

VW would never let this software go to a direct competitor (unlike Rivian, who has stupidly desperately enabled their own eventual demise with the Scout and cheaper variants thereof). VW is much smarter than that. If they allow it at all, it will be to a manufacturer that doesn't overlap with...

That hasn't been my experience. In my weekends with the Taycan I found the Porsche software actually worked, which is more than I can say for Rivian.

Not necessarily. Porsche uses premium components; the engineering is top notch. The software that drives those components may not be easily transferrable to more margin-oriented cars that the rest of VAG makes. I don't know if Porsche wants to be dragged down by a common stack. Porsche has...

Hah! So if your airbags never deployed, nobody else needs them, right? Proving a negative is impossible, but it never stops people from trying...

If this issue has happened to multiple people, it is a design problem. There isn’t enough feedback and the drive change can fail halfway though. To force the user to compensate is a classic failure and excuse in UX and safety design. A good example to follow: The Federal Aviation...

Thinking about this a bit more, I think the best solution is to have the Rivian drivetrain software emit an “error grunt” noise only if the stalk hits neutral but doesn’t stay there long enough to activate neutral. That also handles the case where someone is at the car wash and didn’t press...

Technically preconditioning does not pull shore power from the plug. It pulls from the battery, and then sometime later charges the battery from the plug. So, you can be out 1-2% of charge if you leave before it decides to top off. At least, that has been my experience. Maybe with the G2s...

That's about $10K of damage; $15K if you want it absolutely perfect. I feel your pain!

It can happen when one attempts to park quickly, as when parallel parking on a speedy, high traffic street, or exiting a driveway onto a narrow street, where cars are waiting for you to finish. The R1T turn radius can be large, necessitating some quick back and forth to turn 90 degrees. I've...

Many times have I flipped the car from reverse to drive, or vise versa, only to find that it didn't take. It turns out, at least on G1 vehicles, that one can flub the stalk, see and feel it moving appropriately, but it's just shy of triggering the sensor. Now, you're still left in the mode you...

Toyota is 100x more reliable than a Rivian. Edmunds doesn't address this issue at all. You can make a really cool car if it doesn't have to work all the time. A Toyota Grand Highlander starts at only $40K, BTW. It has a real world range of 500 miles and can refuel in five minutes from...

Rivian has a funny habit of opening California spaces in places where there isn't any parking. I question what demographic they are targeting; people who don't own cars aren't going to buy many Rivians. People who already own cars in SF do exist, but they don't typically buy large vehicles...

Unless they're getting this technology from Waymo or Volvo, it's going to be terrible. Eventually we will get there, but right now LIDAR is looking like a necessity. Rivian should license this tech., not develop it themselves. It's a distraction and they won't be able to do it properly. They...