Introducing Rivian Gear Guard -- camera and cable system that protects everything in your R1T.

[jtshaw]

"We created the Gear Guard security system for Rivian vehicles to give you greater peace of mind on all your adventures. On R1T, we use a combination of five cameras embedded around the truck, a braided steel cable that secures items in the bed and on the roof, and a watchful (but friendly) animated Gear Guard character in the center display to protect the things you care about while you’re away."





They just posted a new Rivian Story on gear guard. It looks pretty analogous to the Tesla Sentry Mode system, but with the added bonus of having the cable that is part of the system so you can lock items up on the outside.

A few things I picked up from the video I'm excited about (but also would love to learn more about).

1. They specifically call out the videos stored by Gear Guard are stored "on the internal HD". I wonder how much space it uses and how they deal with running out of space. Tesla Sentry mode requires using a USB-based HD or flash drive which has always been hit or miss. I've had numerous problems where my drive just stops getting recognized until the next OTA. I use a Samsung T5 SSD. I also wonder if/how you offload videos from the Rivian.
2. The brief snapshots of a person flipping through the videos on the car display looked really responsive. Sentry mode tends to over record and the experience of looking through the video on the car itself is basically useless. I disconnect the HD and use my laptop to view them.
3. Can you stream the camera view with your phone? This was added recently on the Tesla and it's a bit slow and clumsy, but nice to have.

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[Engi_Nerd]

Kind of a head scratcher to me that they didn't make the cable and socket electrically conductive so they could detect someone walking up and cutting it to trigger the vehicle alarm. Would have been a much more compelling and unique implementation considering how easy it to discretely cut cables like these. As it stands, having a video of someone walking away with your stuff (or hitting your car with their door/cart) doesn't really help that much in the real world. Perhaps a future upgrade?

 

[IlliniRivian]

The pace of Rivian's MarComm postings to social media has really picked up over the last 2+ weeks. I want to believe that is a positive sign that more deliveries are coming. (The glass half empty view could be reservations are being cancelled and they are working to drum interest before they have to disclose that fact on the earnings call).

That said I remain deeply frustrated Rivian is not providing anything about the R1S despite its claim it made a delivery of a production level R1S in December.

 

[jtshaw]

The pace of Rivian's MarComm postings to social media has really picked up over the last 2+ weeks. I want to believe that is a positive sign that more deliveries are coming. (The glass half empty view could be reservations are being cancelled and they are working to drum interest before they have to disclose that fact on the earnings call).

That said I remain deeply frustrated Rivian is not providing anything about the R1S despite its claim it made a delivery of a production level R1S in December.

As somebody who is slated for an R1S LE delivery by end of April... I'm with you.

 

[Craigins]

Kind of a head scratcher to me that they didn't make the cable and socket electrically conductive so they could detect someone walking up and cutting it to trigger the vehicle alarm. Would have been a much more compelling and unique implementation considering how easy it to discretely cut cables like these. As it stands, having a video of someone walking away with your stuff (or hitting your car with their door/cart) doesn't really help that much in the real world. Perhaps a future upgrade?

Might be patent issues. Just simply measuring that the wire is conducting doesnt really help much. Just shave down the wire and put something like a screw driver across the 2 wires at the plug.

To do that properly you have to record the resistance of the cable each time it is armed. Then you have a bunch of issues like temperature changing the resistance and such.

One good supplier is Hi-G-Tek, they make an electronic loop seal.

Rivian could have embedded a fiberoptic cable in the loop and used that, but customers would bend it too much and break the fiber.

 

[Diddy123]

Can anyone identify the camera they're using to see if it's capable of better resolution than is currently being displayed in the center screen?

 

[Evan S]

Is that a Limestone truck @ 1:07?

 

[opnwide]

Is that a Limestone truck @ 1:07?

I’m seeing El Cap.

 

[AllInev]

Uhm... Having handled the GearGuard cable, I wouldn't rely on it keeping your expensive things in the truck very long. Rivian forgot to show a pair of these (see attached image) in this video.

 

[timf]

Kind of a head scratcher to me that they didn't make the cable and socket electrically conductive so they could detect someone walking up and cutting it to trigger the vehicle alarm. Would have been a much more compelling and unique implementation considering how easy it to discretely cut cables like these. As it stands, having a video of someone walking away with your stuff (or hitting your car with their door/cart) doesn't really help that much in the real world. Perhaps a future upgrade?

Are you sure it isn't? Ever since they unveiled the R1T, they promoted the idea that the gear cable was tied into the alarm system and if someone were to cut the cable, it will set off the alarm. I'm pretty sure they were touting this as recently as the media test drives last fall. Dropping that feature now would be another disappointment.

 

[Craigins]

I’m seeing El Cap.

I agree. El cap in the bright lights.

 

[opnwide]

That said I remain deeply frustrated Rivian is not providing anything about the R1S despite its claim it made a delivery of a production level R1S in December.

…and like @kanundrum once posted a picture of, we don’t even know if the R1S gets soccer mom Karen or not!?!

 

[Engi_Nerd]

Are you sure it isn't? Ever since they unveiled the R1T, they promoted the idea that the gear cable was tied into the alarm system and if someone were to cut the cable, it will set off the alarm. I'm pretty sure they were touting this as recently as the media test drives last fall. Dropping that feature now would be another disappointment.

Customer service chat support told me it is now just a cable.

 

[COdogman]

They just posted a new Rivian Story on gear guard. It looks pretty analogous to the Tesla Sentry Mode system, but with the added bonus of having the cable that is part of the system so you can lock items up on the outside.

A few things I picked up from the video I'm excited about (but also would love to learn more about).

1. They specifically call out the videos stored by Gear Guard are stored "on the internal HD". I wonder how much space it uses and how they deal with running out of space. Tesla Sentry mode requires using a USB-based HD or flash drive which has always been hit or miss. I've had numerous problems where my drive just stops getting recognized until the next OTA. I use a Samsung T5 SSD. I also wonder if/how you offload videos from the Rivian.
2. The brief snapshots of a person flipping through the videos on the car display looked really responsive. Sentry mode tends to over record and the experience of looking through the video on the car itself is basically useless. I disconnect the HD and use my laptop to view them.
3. Can you stream the camera view with your phone? This was added recently on the Tesla and it's a bit slow and clumsy, but nice to have.

On #1, the manual explains that to retrieve the video you need to plug a USB drive into the port located in the center console - that is the only port known so far to be a data port.

 

[lostpacket]

Gotta say not many can pull off the shirtless, open-puffy-vest, headband, jorts, and tube socks look, but my man makes it work

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