My List of Desired Changes

[GHuff]

When I slowly pass a vehicle on my left or right side and look in the cluster, I see, consecutively.

1. A vehicle rendered in 3D in front of the truck.
2. That vehicle disappears from the cluster.
3. Later, the yellow warning symbols appear off the rear bumper indicating danger on that side.

When the vehicle next to me is in a particular location, the cluster does not show any indication that there is a vehicle on that side. When performing this test, I did not look at the yellow light in the mirrors to see if it was illuminated, but my gut says that I only see this light in conjunction with the yellow warning circles off the rear bumper in the cluster. I will need to re-check this behavior while also checking the mirrors to be certain.

I can confirm. This happens with me. 3D rendering of vehicles ONLY appear when in front of the Rivian. The blind spot monitoring is decent (not great) off the rear bumpers. But there isn't really anything to the sides.
The rear blind spot monitoring also isn't great compared to other vehicles I've driven.

One point OP didn't make is that the blind spot monitoring on the side mirrors (little orange light things that light up) only appear for me when my turn signal is on. I've driven other vehicles where these light up any time there is another vehicle or obstacle detected in your blind spot. This is annoying and dangerous because there are always situations where I don't put on my turn signal. I do this most often, when I think I'm the only one on the road....when you think there is no one around you change lanes without signaling, it's common. BUT the Rivian side mirror lights won't be on in this case. When they aren't on, you think it's safe. Not a great design.

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[GHuff]

I love this list and agree with 99% of it. I'm surprised you left off the need for a side camera to be displayed when the turn signal is activated. Every other car I've driven the past 5+ years has this feature.

 

[GHuff]

I've also noticed that the lane detection on the driver display is very inaccurate. The digital imagining will show my vehicle off to one side of the lane when I'm in the center, or it will show me in the center when I'm riding the line. It rarely is representative of where I am in the lane. Because this is so inaccurate, I'm scared to use any adaptive cruise control or Drive+ features.
It's also consistently inaccurate, not just certain roads. Other vehicles I've driven are far superior, which is not a great feeling considering how expensive the R1T is and how "tech" driven it is supposed to be.

 

[GHuff]

No idea what they are talking about. My blindspot warning works fine in my R1T. Just like any other car with the Warning light on the side view mirror. Also, of course, audible and visual alarm on the dash if you were to try to veer in to someone.

Does your side view mirror light up without your turn signal on? Mine only lights up and I only get a visual or audible alarm if my turn signal is on or backing up.

 

[GHuff]

I assumed the OP meant the Instrument cluster display.

As far as I can tell the blindspot monitoring indicators in the mirrors work great.

Mine only appear when the turn signal is on. In most other vehicles, this light comes on the side mirrors all the time.

 

[Brewbud]

Does your side view mirror light up without your turn signal on? Mine only lights up and I only get a visual or audible alarm if my turn signal is on or backing up.

Mine appears with or without the turn signal on. Maybe there is a setting you need to enable.

 

[GHuff]

Another thing you should add to the list is the Clock/time display. It is so hard to read--it is tiny and in the top right corner of the display--the farthest possible location from the driver. There is no reason it can't be in larger font and in the middle of the top header. Top right location is just silly.

 

[Brewbud]

Another thing you should add to the list is the Clock/time display. It is so hard to read--it is tiny and in the top right corner of the display--the farthest possible location from the driver. There is no reason it can't be in larger font and in the middle of the top header. Top right location is just silly.

Heck, I'd like the miles remaining in the driver's display to be a bit bigger. There is a lot of room for it.

 

[BillArnett]

From my perspective, there are many, many UI difficulties things that Rivian should address. Here are a few easy ones:

1. The font sizes in the UI are almost universally way too small (except for the speedometer) in both the instrument cluster and the main screen. I can't read them at all. EG: the clock. I have to peer below my glasses and lean way over, obviously very dangerous. There is plenty of room on the screen to make things much bigger without sacrificing any information. Same goes for many of the icons in the UI, EG the ride height indicator in the instrument cluster.

2. Many operations take too many taps. EG: changing the suspension between soft and stiff takes two taps, one to choose the mode and a second one to confirm. This means I have to take my eyes off the road and my hand off the wheel TWICE. There are many other examples of similar behavior wherein I request an operation and the car then makes me confirm the choice I just made. The obvious fix is to just toggle the setting with a single tap.

3. The tiny little power level meter is almost impossible to read. It should at least change color for regen.

4. Some settings are sometimes reset automatically. EG: the ACC following distance goes back to max; not sure when this happens but at least after being in Park. It's annoying to have to adjust it again every day. EG: when pressing Recenter on the map it also changes the zoom level. Thus there is no way to keep the map centered at my chosen zoom level. General rule: don't mess with the driver's settings! The computer (or the software engineer) does NOT know better than the driver.

5. After airing down for off-road driving the tire pressure monitor starts complaining. There should be lower warning thresholds in the Off Road modes.

And a few easy new features:

6. The charging power display should show volts in addition to amps and watts. (The computer is better at arithmetic than I am)

7. Show the guide lines in the forward camera view. This would help immensely in tight parking spaces (like my garage). It would be useful off-road, too.

8. Display the temperature for each tire in addition to its pressure. Or normalize to the standard cold temp. If you air back up after a day of wheeling when the tires are hot you need to add a little extra. Compensating for temperature would make this easier.

9. Pitch/roll display. The truck obviously already has this data. This is very useful when off-roading in tricky situations. It's sometimes vital to know that the roll angle really is OK despite what it feels like. (and while they're at it, publish a stability curve or at least the critical angles in both dimensions).

I have many more. But the biggest one is: A WINCH. Off-roading without a winch is like sailing without a life vest.

 

[kizamybute']

I've been driving my R1T for 3 weeks now, and have been keeping track of things I'd like to see changed. Most are software and UI things that could be fixed, but there are a few hardware changes that I'm recording in case someone from Rivian sees the list and is interested in my opinion.

The 36 things that I think should be changed for a better R1T:

Is there anything you like about it?? LOL. Just kidding. Yes, there are MANY revisions Rivian needs to make. I'm sure many will come in time as they continue development. Tesla did the same thing. Just takes time. Might take Rivian more time as it doesn't appear they have as big of a team designated to UI improvement as Tesla does/did.

 

[Dark-Fx]

I'm done arguing with you, as you clearly have no interest in actually listening to other opinions before immediately responding and trying to trash them. I should have known better. The internet wins again.

Just do what I did and plop all the incessant people who want carplay on ignore.

 

[Dark-Fx]

I can confirm. This happens with me. 3D rendering of vehicles ONLY appear when in front of the Rivian. The blind spot monitoring is decent (not great) off the rear bumpers. But there isn't really anything to the sides.
The rear blind spot monitoring also isn't great compared to other vehicles I've driven.

One point OP didn't make is that the blind spot monitoring on the side mirrors (little orange light things that light up) only appear for me when my turn signal is on. I've driven other vehicles where these light up any time there is another vehicle or obstacle detected in your blind spot. This is annoying and dangerous because there are always situations where I don't put on my turn signal. I do this most often, when I think I'm the only one on the road....when you think there is no one around you change lanes without signaling, it's common. BUT the Rivian side mirror lights won't be on in this case. When they aren't on, you think it's safe. Not a great design.

It's super weird that anyone should be so dependent on the car to tell them they are about to do something incredibly stupid because they couldn't check their blind spots before doing something simple like changing lanes or use their signals.

 

[kizamybute']

GHuff said:
I can confirm. This happens with me. 3D rendering of vehicles ONLY appear when in front of the Rivian. The blind spot monitoring is decent (not great) off the rear bumpers. But there isn't really anything to the sides.
The rear blind spot monitoring also isn't great compared to other vehicles I've driven.

One point OP didn't make is that the blind spot monitoring on the side mirrors (little orange light things that light up) only appear for me when my turn signal is on. I've driven other vehicles where these light up any time there is another vehicle or obstacle detected in your blind spot. This is annoying and dangerous because there are always situations where I don't put on my turn signal. I do this most often, when I think I'm the only one on the road....when you think there is no one around you change lanes without signaling, it's common. BUT the Rivian side mirror lights won't be on in this case. When they aren't on, you think it's safe. Not a great design.



Dark-Fx said:
It's super weird that anyone should be so dependent on the car to tell them they are about to do something incredibly stupid because they couldn't check their blind spots before doing something simple like changing lanes or use their signals.

Actually, the lights DO come on without the blinker on. I see them on all the time. At least they do on my truck

 

[GHuff]

Actually, the lights DO come on without the blinker on. I see them on all the time. At least they do on my truck

Can re-confirm, mine do not. They also only work off of the rear bumper, not to the side of the vehicle where the real blind spot is located.

 

[R1T-USN]

@GHuff - I'm guessing it's not enabled in the settings menu?

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