Rivian Autonomy Demo Drive

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[Dark-Fx]

Clearly @sunydrm is not Bearded Tesla Guy.

 

[SadHill]

Makes me almost want to trade in my gen1 for a gen2….almost.

 

[mnewber1]

Makes me almost want to trade in my gen1 for a gen2….almost.

If they actually meet their prediction of 150k R2 per year, then there will be plenty available on their shop eventually. Similar to the Gen 2 R1S.

 

[Dave Cundiff]

Nice video. I watched at double speed, so it seemed pretty exciting!

As far as I could tell, the system didn't slow down for parked vehicles that aren't in the traffic lanes. That's a strategy that works until it doesn't.

As the vehicle that's passing a stopped vehicle, I've seen doors open when I didn't expect, and people (sometimes little people) or pets emerge when I didn't expect. Not cool.

That's just one of many ways that autonomous driving can hurt people. Programmers need to program for this. Even then, I don't want to be one of the first to rely on the platform.

Best to all!

 

[captainjp]

Nice video. I watched at double speed, so it seemed pretty exciting!

As far as I could tell, the system didn't slow down for parked vehicles that aren't in the traffic lanes. That's a strategy that works until it doesn't.

As the vehicle that's passing a stopped vehicle, I've seen doors open when I didn't expect, and people (sometimes little people) or pets emerge when I didn't expect. Not cool.

That's just one of many ways that autonomous driving can hurt people. Programmers need to program for this. Even then, I don't want to be one of the first to rely on the platform.

Best to all!

I believe they're doing extensive edge-case tracking and logging to train the model to behave appropriately. If you haven’t watched the event, this is addressed at some point by James Philbin, Rivian’s Autonomy VP.

 

[Donald Stanfield]

Nice video. I watched at double speed, so it seemed pretty exciting!

As far as I could tell, the system didn't slow down for parked vehicles that aren't in the traffic lanes. That's a strategy that works until it doesn't.

As the vehicle that's passing a stopped vehicle, I've seen doors open when I didn't expect, and people (sometimes little people) or pets emerge when I didn't expect. Not cool.

That's just one of many ways that autonomous driving can hurt people. Programmers need to program for this. Even then, I don't want to be one of the first to rely on the platform.

Best to all!

Totally true, but for every edge case like this that might get missed there is also an opportunity for the computer to catch things the person who is tired or not paying attention misses. We’ve all seen our fellow drivers miss the mark in major ways. I see that daily.

I think there are more bad drivers than edge cases.

 

[Honey]

Makes me almost want to trade in my gen1 for a gen2….almost.

Wait for the gen 3

 

[Dark-Fx]

I think there are more bad drivers than edge cases.

Perhaps, but also, bad drivers cause edge cases.

I've had emergency braking activate more times when unnecessary than it saved me from actually getting in an accident. I'd say there's really only one time I've legitimately been saved by AEB, and it would have been a very low speed crash. Guy in front of me started going at a green, so I started to follow, looked down for a moment and the brakes locked up. No reason for that person to have stopped again, but they did.

 

[SadHill]

Wait for the gen 3

oh I agree. Plan is to get a gen3 and then my youngest son can have my gen1.
my wife’s mache will go to my older son and she is planning on getting a 2027 R2.
Although things do change, so who knows what will happen.

 

[Donald Stanfield]

Perhaps, but also, bad drivers cause edge cases.

I've had emergency braking activate more times when unnecessary than it saved me from actually getting in an accident. I'd say there's really only one time I've legitimately been saved by AEB, and it would have been a very low speed crash. Guy in front of me started going at a green, so I started to follow, looked down for a moment and the brakes locked up. No reason for that person to have stopped again, but they did.

My AEB has never activated in the Rivian, I've gotten the warning once or twice but it never applied the brakes. I had it activated once in my Audi, and it was because I wasn't paying attention. It saved me from rear-ending someone at about 50MPH. Even decent drivers are sometimes the problem because humans aren't perfect.

I got into an accident once years ago in a similar situation to what you described, so I might have been able to avoid it had the vehicle been equipped with AEB, but that tech didn't exist then.

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