Sooo About that 2024.47 Enhanced Acceleration

[beatle]

Maybe they gave us Launch control but in All Purpose wit the highest suspension settings. It can be called 'Flipper Mode'

Saw this guy beta testing the update:

Is it more responsive in sport?

Much more.

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[DayTripping]

Even sport has some lag when you first hit it. From the time the pedal hit the floor for a hard launch, it was at leat a 1/4 second before the truck decided to move. On my Teslas, they are already moving once you start to hit the pedal and their control is very precise.

I have exactly 1" from my garage door to the spoiler on my Plaid. I literally have to nose the car very gently against the wall to make sure it will clear. With my Plaid (or either 3), even in their most aggressive mode, I can literally move the car about 1 mm at a time. The granularity is amazing. If I had to that with my Rivian, there would either be a hole in my garage wall or in the truck. I must have parked the Plaid hundreds of times and no damage to either the bumper of the wall.

Really the most amazing throttle control I've had on almost any vehicle yet it doesn't take a ton of movement to get it to respond. I appreciate it even more after driving my Rivian. The very grabby hold mode on the Rivian isn't near as refined either so I have to give it more to move which makes it difficult to be more delicate when doing tight 3 point turns.

 

[Kaiju]

I ask the question mostly because I'm curious if anyone has been able to tease out any details. I'm on the fence as to if I want to take this update personally. After being too trusting and fighting bugs from undocumented changes in important places for months, the last update finally fixed it and I'm very leery of updating it further. If I'd known what I was in for I'd still be on 2024.27.

I am also with the people who don't really want changes to throttle mapping, which is why I'd let this one go if that's all it means. I won't buy that it took them 2 years to figure out throttle response, so what's the motivation for this change? I'm fairly sure it's meant to sell more vehicles or more upgrades, though I don't have much faith in the intentions behind them these days.

I'd like to think they're offering something most people would seem to want, which is having more of the available power in more situations, but I can't deny that I suspect it might be something unpopular that's meant to prop up Gen 2's bad real world efficiency numbers.

 

[dleepnw]

They've tweaked the acceleration before in different modes. probably just another tweak.

 

[windblowlc]

Even sport has some lag when you first hit it. From the time the pedal hit the floor for a hard launch, it was at leat a 1/4 second before the truck decided to move. On my Teslas, they are already moving once you start to hit the pedal and their control is very precise.

I have exactly 1" from my garage door to the spoiler on my Plaid. I literally have to nose the car very gently against the wall to make sure it will clear. With my Plaid (or either 3), even in their most aggressive mode, I can literally move the car about 1 mm at a time. The granularity is amazing. If I had to that with my Rivian, there would either be a hole in my garage wall or in the truck. I must have parked the Plaid hundreds of times and no damage to either the bumper of the wall.

Really the most amazing throttle control I've had on almost any vehicle yet it doesn't take a ton of movement to get it to respond. I appreciate it even more after driving my Rivian. The very grabby hold mode on the Rivian isn't near as refined either so I have to give it more to move which makes it difficult to be more delicate when doing tight 3 point turns.

I have never owned a Tesla. The controlled throttle response you described... I'll just have to take your word for it. Rivian still has a way to go in this regard, waffling back and forth between being real jumpy a few updates ago and real lazy at the moment.

 

[bmedfo1]

I wish Rivian would give us a power display. Since they dont you can still find this data. If you go into the Service screen "youtube it" Go to the dashboard. it will display Voltage and current draw in real time. do a pull and you can see how many amps the motors are using. Amps X volts = watts (power). you could even then convert the KW output to HP. KW / .75 = ~hp. This gives a simple way to compare the power output of different setting. Keep in mind that battery/motor temps and State of charge will pay a big factor in this too.

 

[SwampNut]

I wish Rivian would give us a power display.

Since both the drive mode screen and the front screen have what I consider a power display, which is a graph of the power to each wheel....what more do you want? What do you consider a power display?

 

[Schroederhc]

With the Dual Motor vehicles, you only have All Purpose, and the throttle response is very laggy. My Lightning is much more responsive. Hopefully it will be improving that.

 

[f1racer328]

If they could just give us more precision in reverse, it would be nice. I go from battling the brake hold, to creeping just slightly too fast. It's hard to get within say, 5 inches of the wall.

 

[HapticWagon]

I’m actually more excited to see what exactly this update to throttle will bring to my Gen2 R1S Tri.
I just got Gen1 R1T Quad loaner this morning, and the throttle mapping in AP mode is very responsive, and made me realize how sluggish and heavy the pedal is on my R1S.

Also side observations, the handling seems much more tighter and car-like nimble on the R1T vs my R1S.

 

[beatle]

Since both the drive mode screen and the front screen have what I consider a power display, which is a graph of the power to each wheel....what more do you want? What do you consider a power display?

Would be nice if they at least had marks to indicate the power output on the graph. Tesla shows you this when in ludicrous+ mode:

The power output is shown in kw on the right side meter as well as the exact value in the table on the left. You can see the battery temperature as well (nice of Rivian to already show this along with the motor temperature).

 

[bfilippo]

With the Dual Motor vehicles, you only have All Purpose, and the throttle response is very laggy. My Lightning is much more responsive. Hopefully it will be improving that.

Hoping for the same!

 

[ElGuano]

Even sport has some lag when you first hit it. From the time the pedal hit the floor for a hard launch, it was at leat a 1/4 second before the truck decided to move. On my Teslas, they are already moving once you start to hit the pedal and their control is very precise.

I have exactly 1" from my garage door to the spoiler on my Plaid. I literally have to nose the car very gently against the wall to make sure it will clear. With my Plaid (or either 3), even in their most aggressive mode, I can literally move the car about 1 mm at a time. The granularity is amazing. If I had to that with my Rivian, there would either be a hole in my garage wall or in the truck. I must have parked the Plaid hundreds of times and no damage to either the bumper of the wall.

As a new R1T owner that has to inch the truck into a tight spot to park, I have to agree with this. There is a bit of a latency, or more pressure needed on the pedal, that makes very fine control a bit of a "rubber-band experience." I know I can get used to it, but the difference between the R1T and the Model X in this regard is very noticeable.

Hope it's something Rivian can change with OTA and that they're working on it.

 

[AuntRivian]

As a new R1T owner that has to inch the truck into a tight spot to park, I have to agree with this. There is a bit of a latency, or more pressure needed on the pedal, that makes very fine control a bit of a "rubber-band experience." I know I can get used to it, but the difference between the R1T and the Model X in this regard is very noticeable.

Hope it's something Rivian can change with OTA and that they're working on it.

In high school I worked at a used Porsche dealership. We had an 80's turbo 911 with carburetor issues that I had to park in the showroom between other high end Porsches. The engine had 2 speeds, idle or redline. Combine that with a clutch that was hinged at the floor, it was exciting. Parking my R1T in a tight spot reminds me of it.

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