Altitude display wrong

[JacobAZ]

I noticed today that the elevation, min elevation, and max elevation all don't calculate unless you're on the drive screen and not in park. I did the reset and left the drive screen. Drove from home at around 7500 ft to Grand Junction at 4500 ft. Parked, and let the truck sleep. When I came back to the truck it woke up and I selected the Drive screen. Min, Max and Current elevation were 7470-7476 ft but I was at an elevation of around 4500 ft. Put it in gear and the current elevation immediately went to 4553ft, max was 7476, and min was 4553. Either there's a software bug or my truck has an issue.

You are correct. This is how it works, not an issue with your truck. When parked the current elevation displays incorrectly. My assumption is current elevation is not a stored value, it is a real time function (stream) and needs the GPS providing real time data to display correctly.
So, when parked GPS is off, no streaming. Why it displays what it does, I don't know. As for the min/max, these are stored values. It appears the trigger to load min/max stored data on the screen is putting the R1 in drive. This is a simplified description of how I think it works. What appears simple often is not when designing and coding. There are a lot of decisions as to what to display, when to refresh, and so on. The designer is also considering improving screen response time and energy drain. Bottom line, I think our trucks are normal regarding elevation display and functioning as designed (it's okay to not like the design). It would be very helpful if Rivian (and Tesla) would put information out on the details of how some of these things work internally.

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