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OP asked about getting new camera hardware to improve the resolution or new software with improved codec. The camera resolution is bad, but the codec is OK. Here is a comparison of the resolution, using a fisheye also shrinks the subject matter:
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Assuming Gen 2 is using the same lenses, but upping the resolution from 1376x976 to 3840x2724 (4K) The car in the video I provided would now be larger than a 1920x1080 (HD) dash cam.

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It's because Rivian cheaped out with crappy pandemic parts when it came to cameras. Nothing you can do but buy Gen 2 or install a drive camera yourself.
Disagree. Rivian almost certainly had the hardware spec'd, contracts committed and software well under development prior to March 2020. The first Rivian shipped in September 2021, 18 months after the start of COVID, and the original goal was to ship sooner than that. You don't wait until 9 months before shipping a vehicle to finalize systems and hardware.
 

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Unfair/inaccurate portrayal of the situation. Back then Rivian was brand new and hadn't yet begun production. Most of the media and suppliers didn't even know who they were. They didn't have leverage to negotiate on prices, specs and availability... But still had a production target to meet. They did the best they could at the time.
Understood. I'm just bitter that they didn't have a leasing program at the time when I bought or I wouldn't mind so much with the cameras/speakers/suspension. Early pricing made it more tolerable but anyone who paid full price lately for Gen 1 with no tax rebate really got hosed when Gen 2 was announced. I never thought they would jump to Gen 2 so quickly in a year or I would've waited. Kudos to the geniuses who sold their IPO stock quickly, had 2 reservations so they could get R1T first and then flip it for a R1S and lastly to the people that held on to their pre-order pricing until now to get Gen 2.
 

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I'm paying $2000 for just that this week when I pick mine up from the body shop. Sadly, I don't even have potato-quality video of the vandal to work with, as he or she managed to key the fender without triggering Gary. Regardless, if there's cameras, and they can be improved, seems like there's more than enough risk of hit-run or other unfortunate potential use cases to justify doing it.
Gary is pretty useless. He has missed a lot of incidents on my rigs.
 

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Unfair/inaccurate portrayal of the situation. Back then Rivian was brand new and hadn't yet begun production. Most of the media and suppliers didn't even know who they were. They didn't have leverage to negotiate on prices, specs and availability... But still had a production target to meet. They did the best they could at the time.
Hard disagree. CCDs and lenses are commodity products. You can buy them in infinite quantities with infinite specs. There is no negotiation on these parts, there is just picking one out of a hundred page catalog.
 

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Other drivers have been flipping me the bird long before I got an EV.

cameras in Gen 2 are legit.
 

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Hard disagree. CCDs and lenses are commodity products. You can buy them in infinite quantities with infinite specs. There is no negotiation on these parts, there is just picking one out of a hundred page catalog.
Moot argument. The cameras we have are the ones we have. No amount of bickering is going to change what it was over a month ago, when the comments were made. Not going to change anything now either. But thanks for telling me how you feel (not that I cared).
 
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But the codec could change - that could change the quality of the video if the cameras are capable. I could see them using a codec with a lot of compression to save on disk space. Whenever I use video from the hard drive Final Cut or any other video editing program seems to have a lot of problems with the video until I convert it to another codec. - Had anyone else experienced this?
 

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Final Cut or any other video editing program seems to have a lot of problems with the video until I convert it to another codec. - Had anyone else experienced this?
Quicktime and LumaFusion Pro both have weird issues ONLY with the video from the Rivian. I edit a lot of other video with them. I haven't tried Final Cut yet. Reminds me to go grab some video from the truck now, so many morons out yesterday. I think I have one funny clip of three idiots in 30 seconds.
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