Don't blindly follow the nav!

[Laserboy1054]

We've just boarded the ferry to cross the Puget Sound. The nav system appears to be advising an unwise route!

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[Dark-Fx]

You're gonna leave the ferry behind too aren't you?

 

[COdogman]

Better go yell at the Captain ASAP!

 

[KBabione]

You'll be fine...I can't imagine that the water in Puget Sound exceeds 43.1" in depth...

 

[iforbes]

When we got off the Cross Sound ferry, had to do a soft reset cause nav thought we were still in New London. Underwhelmed by the google upgrade.

Inconsistent satellite maps summer/winter/normal color/neon color/cloud cover/frequent rerouting to the same exact route. Hoping for fixes.

 

[waitingonanr1s]

Probably my all time favorite Michael Scott moment...

 

[UnsungZero_OldTimeAdMan]

Better go yell at the Captain ASAP!

“Sir, you must change course. You’re doing all wrong!”

Rivian Service: “customer states excessive water ingress while crossing Puget Sound”

 

[Tim-in-CA]

Engage Scuba Mode!

 

[SoCal Rob]

We've just boarded the ferry to cross the Puget Sound. The nav system appears to be advising an unwise route!

If only you’d gotten a CyberTruck! Then you could’ve driven off the ferry and followed nav to your destination.* That was a planned feature, right?

*If anyone reading this is a CyberTruck owner, don’t even consider actually doing this.

 

[bigsky]

Navigation just shows the route to your destination. Of course, it does not mean that it wants you to get in the water.

The oh so-great WSDOT ferries!
I did notice what you point out during my trip to the divine San Juan islands last weekend. Sure, navigation was showing the route over the water from Anacortes to Friday Harbor, but that is just the route. And you yourself never could follow the route and get in the water if you tried, anyway. It is just a reference.

 

[bigsky]

When we got off the Cross Sound ferry, had to do a soft reset cause nav thought we were still in New London. Underwhelmed by the google upgrade.

Perhaps this is related precisely to how Rivian navigation and vehicle location tracking work. Contrary to the common belief that you always will know exactly where your vehicle is at any time, what you actually will know always is the last location where the vehicle was when wheels/vehicle stopped moving on its own. Once off the ferry and the vehicle started rolling, geolocation would have/should have been re-established and restored automatically, and reported to the mothership, no reset needed.

Another way of looking at this, should somebody decide to steal your Rivian and "disable" location finding, the thing to do would be to haul it away on a flatbed and never let the wheels rotate. Doing that, good luck ever finding out where your Rivian actually is at; location will keep reporting back that the vehicle is still at the exact location where it was loaded onto the flatbed.

 

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

 

[UnsungZero_OldTimeAdMan]

If only you’d gotten a CyberTruck! Then you could’ve driven off the ferry and followed nav to your destination.* That was a planned feature, right?

*If anyone reading this is a CyberTruck owner, don’t even consider actually doing this.

This got me curious so I went searching. If each brand's claims are to be believed, the R1T is slightly more slippery than the CT. The Rivian has 0.30 coefficient of drag. The CT has 0.34. Ford Lightning has 0.44. Chevy Silverado EV has 0.331. Hummer EV has 0.5.

 

[Riviot]

Flip off any yellow Rivians I see in the next week with Illinois plates: got it 🫡

Watcha doing on the OP?

 

[Time2Roll]

Website route planner to Fairbanks put me on a ferry. Why is that an issue?

Then tried for Deadhorse only to arrive with -26% battery

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