Navigation in NY/NJ when trailoring a big liability.

[Jccoryell]

I do a monthly trip from my home on LI to the Adirondacks. I tow a trailer. I cannot take parkways with a trailer. The vehicle senses when a trailer is attached. So why doesn't the NAV automatically adjust the route? It doesn't but then why can't I go into settings and tell it not to put me on parkways? I can't so I set a manual route. But, when I start driving the NAV says a better route found and then changes the whole thing. It used to allow me to dismiss the new route but no more.
How do I get this thing to keep me off parkways and stay on the route I selected?
Also, why doesn't the NAV show EV Connect (Evolve) chargers. It insists on sending me to EVGO. I can choose to stay away from certain chargers in settings but no EV Connect is shown. So how do I precondition before my arrival at a EV Connect charger?
Last, the NAV seems to not know where the RAN chargers are in Newburgh NY. It had me drive around in circles and then put me back on the thruway. I wound up driving 39 miles out of my way. I had to use Waze to get me to the RAN charger.
Where am I going wrong?

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[josh0]

This, I think, is the one real argument in favor of The Software That Shall Not be Named that simply can’t be ignored. Maybe future software updates will address things like navigation for trailering or carrying propane, but in the meantime, we‘re presented with software that very much can tell us to do things that are illegal and/or unsafe. These are supposedly adventure vehicles, but they are currently actively hostile to exactly the kinds of adventure they seem to be encouraging.

I love my R1T, but the fact that there’s no good way to use the infotainment system when you’re out of cell reception is absurd, when I can easily download podcasts, music, and maps to my phone but then can only clumsily play them over Bluetooth, while using a tiny screen that less safe to use.

 

[Hereforthesnacks]

This, I think, is the one real argument in favor of The Software That Shall Not be Named that simply can’t be ignored. Maybe future software updates will address things like navigation for trailering or carrying propane, but in the meantime, we‘re presented with software that very much can tell us to do things that are illegal and/or unsafe. These are supposedly adventure vehicles, but they are currently actively hostile to exactly the kinds of adventure they seem to be encouraging.

I love my R1T, but the fact that there’s no good way to use the infotainment system when you’re out of cell reception is absurd, when I can easily download podcasts, music, and maps to my phone but then can only clumsily play them over Bluetooth, while using a tiny screen that less safe to use.

Your data is more valuable than your happiness with the system. Your comment has been noted and dispensed of.

 

[Cycliste]

The Software That Shall Not be Named

Love that

 

[Electrified Outdoors]

This feature is coming.....s00n.....

 

[COdogman]

"Parkways" are only a thing in the NE from my experience. So how would they create software for everyone that also uses Long Island lingo in the navigation?

I know they are working on more ways to personalize navigation and setting manual routes will be a part of that. Until then you might just need to use a phone holder and run your favorite nav app on it when trailering.

 

[Jccoryell]

"Parkways" are only a thing in the NE from my experience. So how would they create software for everyone that also uses Long Island lingo in the navigation?

I know they are working on more ways to personalize navigation and setting manual routes will be a part of that. Until then you might just need to use a phone holder and run your favorite nav app on it when trailering.

separate phone doesn't help because only the vehicle navigation can trigger battery conditioning.

 

[COdogman]

separate phone doesn't help because only the vehicle navigation can trigger battery conditioning.

It still can if the charger destination is the same as what you put in your phone. I know it's not ideal but you could turn off the nav prompt sound. You could even switch the main screen to music or something else so you don't have to look at it.

 

[beatle]

I don't think excluding "parkways" is a thing. The Fairfax County Parkway, for example, allows trailers.

Irrespective of their name, there are some roads that do not allow trailers, but I don't know if mapping software even has the metadata that reflects this for a navigation system to exclude. Google Maps, for example, only allows you to avoid highways, tolls, and ferries, so this isn't necessarily a shortcoming exclusive of Rivian.

 

[Electrified Outdoors]

if you don't want it to precondition, put in the address of the charger to vehicle NAV. If you want it to precondition, find charger on map, tap it, and navigate to it. Sometimes I use my phone to nav the overall trip and then the Rivian NAV to navigate between chargers. Especially when I am traveling to CT and MA and I want to go via PA and the garden state parkway. Rivian NAV always wants to take me through tons and tons of heavy heavy traffic areas.

Taking the garden state pkwy and mario cuomo bridge is a better route IMO....though its slightly more miles I spend less time sitting in traffic.

 

[blcklab666]

So navigating to a charger if you tap on it on the map instead of just entering it as an address instructs the vehicle to precondition? Even if your arrival range will be pretty significant?

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