I miss seeing my Teams messages on the screen as in my beater Chevy with Android Auto.
Honestly, I was in a rental last month. Used Android Auto while I was driving. I don't miss it. Thought I would, don't.I miss seeing my Teams messages on the screen as in my beater Chevy with Android Auto.
I am fine with them improving the G2 interface's response, just don't ruin G1's...
Gen1 has gotten worse, not better. They really need more optimization for the UI.
Actually they went from 17 different ECUs in Gen 1 (1 controller/processor for each system) to only 7 in Gen 2 by consolidating the controllers in shared processors (different cores). The new infotainment is now in a liquid cooled unit shared with other system controllers. Look at the video made by Out of Spec after the launch or the R1 Gen 2 at 47:30. This has contributed to the gross margins improvement...
That's for the autonomy stuff. The infotainment itself runs on essentially the same hardware. There was a recent Munro video where he visited Rivian and the engineer there confirmed that, for infotainment, it's basically running the same hardware.
That was gonna be my rebuttal, cheers!
The infotainment itself is basically the same but many systems that you control over it like climate controls, charging, etc. are now sharing the same processors which were supposed to be 10x more powerful…. and when switching from climate or navigation to something else it needs to wait for the other processors to respond. Guess what, the interface in Gen 2 is now slower as shared by many Rivian enthusiasts.
You're confusing several components.
Well that’s a lot of improvements for a slower screen…You're confusing several components.
ECU consolidation was part of the Gen 2 improvements. it means less hardware is required to control the vehicles electronic components. Early on Rivian when working Gen 1 vehicles, had separate teams working different aspects of the vehicle, which meant each team more or less had their own ECU, which would then be integrated into the vehicle to create a seamless user experience, from roll control, to power windows. A divide and concur strategy if you will.
With Gen 2 they could start using single ECU's to control multiple aspects of the vehicle. so now instead of an ECU controlling 1 or 2 aspects of the vehicle, now an ECU controls 5 or 6. Better for efficiency, manufacturing ease, and potentially reduces latency.
I get where you're going however in assuming that because one ECU is doing more work it's causing a sluggish experience but the rationale that they are using, in essence, a Gen 1 ECU to control 5x the load is not the case. It just likely comes down to software optimizations that need to happen between both Gen 1 and 2 to provide a better, more snappy experience. Wassym recently took to reddit to verify that indeed they are having some issues with a few trouble applications within the the platform
The 10x compute platform is specifically for Rivian Autonomy and its machine based learning. Maybe they can leverage some of that extra compute for other aspects of the vehicle, but the reality is, it's meant to be an affordable compute platform that can take them beyond the autonomy demands of today, and into tomorrow, at least as much as possible.
It also moves it to the left rear.This latest update upgrades the charge port to NACS.
