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The 1st vehicle I purchased new was a Jeep Comanche pickup. It was inexpensive, remarkably reliable for the time, and served its purpose as basic transportation. While I did use it to haul plywood on occasion, it was mostly a commuter vehicle. It was eventually replaced with a Ford Ranger...

Tailgate doesn't fold like that in production vehicles. Flat like other trucks.

It's never the same trail twice... This holds true for most every trail due to erosion, rocks being kicked out of place, etc.

Kyle didn't say they actually made poor architecture choices. Poorly architected software makes maintenance and bug fixes more difficult, and thus more time consuming.

I would expect something similar to the Nevada GigaFactory, which is essentially a factory in a factory.

Based on my experience with a major battery cell (18650/21700) manufacturer, a new factory based on existing tech/process can easily take a year or more until it's able to produce commercially viable cells. This is after the factory has been built and equipped...

No worries. It's kind of like alternator/generator getting used interchangeably at times. The combination of the Rivian battery and the invertor inside the DC fast charger is more correctly a whole home battery backup system. Functionally replacing the role of a backup generator, but...

From a system perspective, the vehicle and charger combination effectively become a generator producing 240VAC.

I work on AR HUD systems. They're larger than a traditional HUD. You need to reserve a volume of almost 20 liters for AR in order to get enough coverage of the road scene.

Eventual use as a whole home backup generator.

CarPlay has a hardware requirement (authentication chip, licensed by Apple), while Android Auto is a software only implementation aside from the transport layer hardware such as USB.

That certainly helps...

And Google writes the app, not Apple... The app runs on the mobile device, not natively on the car.

I personally find the absence of Google Maps to be a positive attribute. I'm willing to guess that very few of us here have working experience with all of the possible map/navigation providers from a development perspective, and we don't know what Rivian's selection criteria was. I will say...

While the SW code base may be updating daily, they likely aren't doing daily releases if they're following a more structured release process using two week sprints. It's highly unlikely they'd be doing continuous integration/release cycles, which is more appropriate for cloud deployments. You...

I think if ladiver was legally responsible for regulatory compliance and product safety for Rivian, they might have a different opinion. Software is NEVER finished, if it's not completely obvious. Monthly OTA updates wouldn't be surprising to me during the first 6-12 months following launch...

Part of the problem is arbitrarily determining what beta software even means. It's possible to have what are identical builds from a source code perspective, but with different compiler options for things such as logging. Then there's Engineering or Diagnostic Modes that can be enabled with...

Agreed. I think the synthetic powertrain noise was very noticeable in the Inside EVs video. I think GM is using it to mask all the other unpleasant sounds that don't appear to be present in the R1T.

I think they have synthetic "engine" sounds as well.

Technically using OpenStreetMap as the base map layer. Mapbox adds the customization layers, etc to support the satellite images, offroad maps, and custom POI sets.