Driver+ hand off driving unstable

[Gurpreet]

I got my R1S at the end of June and i tried the driver+ hand off function on one of the trips to Oakland on I 80. For the most part the driver + worked great but it did not twice. In one incident it felt like the SUV was going to drive straight into center divide on interstate as i was driving in the carpool lane. I had to manually disengage it. And in another incident it felt like the suv was going to run into another vehicle right next to it. I had to manually maneuver it out of that. Has this happened to anyone else or am I just being to cautious.

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[godfodder0901]

I got my R1S at the end of June and i tried the driver+ hand off function on one of the trips to Oakland on I 80. For the most part the driver + worked great but it did not twice. In one incident it felt like the SUV was going to drive straight into center divide on interstate as i was driving in the carpool lane. I had to manually disengage it. And in another incident it felt like the suv was going to run into another vehicle right next to it. I had to manually maneuver it out of that. Has this happened to anyone else or am I just being to cautious.

Driver+ (Gen 1) doesn't have hands free. What generation do you have? Perhaps you mean RAP (Gen 2)?

 

[lefkonj]

Like any system you still have to pay attention. I have used it for plenty of road trips and it is pretty good but I don't trust these things enough to really be 'HANDS FREE'

 

[Gurpreet]

Driver+ (Gen 1) doesn't have hands free. What generation do you have? Perhaps you mean RAP (Gen 2)?

Yes it's Gen 2.

 

[pointless]

Gen 1 Driver/Highway Assist similar experience with R1T wanting to pull hard to the LEFT shoulder from carpool lane into center median.

 

[AlanP]

It all depends on how much you value your life. It’s pretty much the same with Tesla‘s FSD. What Tesla claims and what actually occurs are light years apart.

 

[Sundar]

Gen2 doesn’t have driver+. It’s called Rivian Autonomy Platform. A few words of caution:

TURN OFF LANE KEEP ASSIST!!

lane keep assist is a seperate function and it can create danger if for example you need to disengage driver+ or Autonomy Platform and steer into an adjacent lane/straddle the line to steer clear of someone who is straying into your lane. Multiple reports out there of this throwing the car into a fishtail - even without driver assist on, but it’s even more dangerous when it’s on in some way because you are intentionally trying to take over driving and the car is overriding your (correct) instincts.

second, I would say much like autopilot and super cruise it’s not meant to be a fullly autonomous system - its supposed to be supervised. It almost certainly will not get you into an accident but who wants to take that risk? What it will do in the situations you described is brake/course correct suddenly and create a hazard for other drivers. I’ve had both situations happen - the latter with other cars mainly because of those drivers drifting into my lane and the car trying to maintain lane center vs “consistent spacing”. On the situation with lane lines, it’s been extremely rare and usually it’s more my concern it will get it wrong since it’s not driving like I would vs it actually getting it wrong. Again, not a risk worth taking for me to see what the system will actually do. I kinda wish someone else would do that though and show us the results or there was a way to simulate it.

 

[schwartz83]

Like any system you still have to pay attention. I have used it for plenty of road trips and it is pretty good but I don't trust these things enough to really be 'HANDS FREE'

I'm with you. It seems to me to be a bit less usable right now. More times it disengages for no understandable reason than it used to. I'm sure there will be an upcoming bug fix for it. But I love using it on wide open drives across North Dakota, Montana and country like that.

 

[photoquests]

I got my R1S at the end of June and i tried the driver+ hand off function on one of the trips to Oakland on I 80. For the most part the driver + worked great but it did not twice. In one incident it felt like the SUV was going to drive straight into center divide on interstate as i was driving in the carpool lane. I had to manually disengage it. And in another incident it felt like the suv was going to run into another vehicle right next to it. I had to manually maneuver it out of that. Has this happened to anyone else or am I just being to cautious.

I have had one instance where it tried to take an exit. I corrected but it was a jerky mess. Someone said to turn off lane keeping if using driver assist, that may make taking control less of a struggle against the steering wheel.

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