A release this time last year would have been so much better for the R2; you had peak Tesla hate & not much other choices for consumers to gravitate to.
Looks very good; should be a hot commodity - Iāll probably own one down the road, but Iāll let others be the beta testers though; plus by then it should be clear if the R2 is successful enough for Rivian to remain a viable entity or not
āGen 3 Autonomy hardware including ACM3 and LiDAR is currently undergoing validation and we expect it to ship on R2 models starting at the end of 2026.ā
so a reason not to buy an R2 early on? That could be really bad for the unveiling where strong sales are needed most
Of course not, the only thing that continues to matter for the companyās viability is the sales of the R2, everything else is noise. Good sales = likely company succeeds; poor sales = likely the company folds
Not really, we live in a human world with many things built for humans. Its more practical for a humanoid robot to be used in multiple already designed applications vs a bunch of different specific design, single use robots. Now not saying Teslaās version is where itās at, but humanoid robots in...