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They could work, but it depends on how fast they are. If they’re not fast enough, the Rivian won’t let you use it.

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Basic voice recognition for baked commands requires ridiculously little processing power. My computer in 1999 could do it. Cars in the mid '00s could do it. No, you won't get LLMs, you probably won't even get "complex commands." But "lower temperature to 69 degrees" won't be a problem. "Open...

Because a numeric "33%" and especially "50 miles" (when you get that low) are very defined numbers. "A needle pointing somewhere around the one-third mark" on older gas cars just doesn't have the same urgency. It's just a line on a dial.

Windows Mobile Motoring.

Mostly. There are rumors that Sony basically bribed Netflix and Warner Bros to drop HD DVD. It was those two actions happening within a month of each other that basically doomed HD DVD. (Both had previously supported both HD DVD and Blu-ray.)

Same. I have never driven my R1T with the cover. I removed it immediately upon delivery, and it has been sitting in a cabinet in the garage ever since.

Subaru EyeSight is about the same level of tech as the Gen 1 Rivian "Driver+". Gen 2's Autonomy+ feature set today should be slightly better, with significant improvements over time.

Eh, Blu-ray eventually added everything HD DVD had, then went beyond it. (I say as someone who still has an HD DVD player and a few movies only on HD DVD, in addition to my 4K Blu-ray player.)

Yeah, it isn't "smaller R1S", it's "cheaper Rivian that happens to be smaller as part of the effort to make it cheaper." Its primary design goal is to "be a sub-$45,000 vehicle." R1S at its absolute cheapest it has ever been listed is a $70,000+ vehicle. Even the cancelled R1 "Explore"...

Yep, Enphase solar, single Powerwall battery pack (~13kWh.) During the summer on hot days, I often drain the Powerwall during "peak" price time (5P-9P) even while still getting solar, solely from cooling the house. And I set my thermostat to let the house get warmer during those hours. In the...

That guy wasn't in Denver. But who knows, maybe he has two homes, one in Denver. The service center he was complaining about definitely doesn't have anywhere similar to park.

Varies *WILDLY* by situation. At my old house, it was $200. At my current house, $2000. And that's in the same city. If you live somewhere far cheaper or far more expensive, those could halve or triple. If all they're doing is replacing the outlet with an "EV repeated insertion/removal"...

I don't on any of my current vehicles. But R2 is not shaped like a sedan. Rear up-spray collects on the rear windows of SUV-shaped vehicles. Having the more upright glass closer to the rear end is what makes a rear wiper preferred. The more teardrop shape of a sedan, combined with its rear...

Yeah, I've been in blizzards that froze a conventional rear wiper because its "parking" spot was too low below the rear window heater wires. As long as you start it when it isn't frozen to the windshield, it'll be fine. Yes, this design may not be the greatest for "sleet and freezing rain...

That's from two 1000 hp motors. An R1T quad with four of those for 4000 hp would be ideal.

I looked a bit ago, the only Gen 2 ability it said was hands-free, eyes-UP thanks to the camera. It never had anything more. https://web.archive.org/web/20220619064700/https://rivian.com/r1t#driver

Yes, from *LONG* before vehicles were actually sold. By the time the vehicles were sold, that claim had been removed. And even in that interview, it wasn't a promise "the first vehicles will support this", but a "future goal" - much like Tesla did with Autopilot 1.0. They said they were working...

Tesla promised in late 2016 that "all vehicles shipping now have all the hardware necessary for full self driving" - and sold those vehicles with that commitment. Rivian has never sold their vehicles as "can do unsupervised level 4/5 self-driving with the hardware in it today." Tesla...

Heck, he believed HW2 could do it. https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/TESLA-INC-6344549/news/Tesla-Motors-All-Tesla-Cars-Being-Produced-Now-Have-Full-Self-Driving-Hardware-23241785/