Wanted: Gate Mode

[GA_Rivian]

If you're driving around in rural america, you spend time at the front end and the back end of many trips doing the following:

1. pull up to gate, stop
2. get out, open gate
3. get back in, drive through gate, stop
4. get out, shut gate
5. continue on

In my R1T, this is a royal PITA, due to having to put the vehicle in park and wait for it to auto unlock the doors before I can get out. We almost always have to go through at least two gates every time we go out or come back. If we're out recreating, it could be significantly more. If I'm using the truck as a work truck, there are always gates to deal with.
It would be great if there was an added "Gate Mode" which would allow you to leave the vehicle in hold, open the door and get out and then get back in to continue. Once you reached 1 mph or whatever, it could remove gate mode and continue. This would require the auto-lock to not kick in until you reached some reasonably higher speed. We routinely do this in our 2019 subaru forester, although the dinging seat-belt bell will drive you crazy (thank you, Rivian, for stopping after 3 dings)
Anyone else having this "problem"?

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[COdogman]

I have “mode fatigue”

 

[KootenayEV]

If you're driving around in rural america, you spend time at the front end and the back end of many trips doing the following:

1. pull up to gate, stop
2. get out, open gate
3. get back in, drive through gate, stop
4. get out, shut gate
5. continue on

In my R1T, this is a royal PITA, due to having to put the vehicle in park and wait for it to auto unlock the doors before I can get out. We almost always have to go through at least two gates every time we go out or come back. If we're out recreating, it could be significantly more. If I'm using the truck as a work truck, there are always gates to deal with.
It would be great if there was an added "Gate Mode" which would allow you to leave the vehicle in hold, open the door and get out and then get back in to continue. Once you reached 1 mph or whatever, it could remove gate mode and continue. This would require the auto-lock to not kick in until you reached some reasonably higher speed. We routinely do this in our 2019 subaru forester, although the dinging seat-belt bell will drive you crazy (thank you, Rivian, for stopping after 3 dings)
Anyone else having this "problem"?

I would like something like this as well - it would also work nicely when getting the truck ready to tow/hitch up.

 

[Dark-Fx]

Double pull the door handle to open it before it's unlocked.

You could even choose to ignore the warnings about putting the vehicle in park first since it does it automatically when you leave anyway.

 

[Dark-Fx]

I have “mode fatigue”

You need alert mode

 

[KeithPleas]

For me that would be "mailbox" mode. But I agree we have enough modes...just give me a way to get out to do something quick without having to Park.

 

[Chewy734]

Hmm… now you’re making me wonder how you’d jump out of the truck while driving? Do you have to put it in Park? I don’t think you can put it in Park at speed. I suppose a quick double pull on the door handle could work. But, with regen on max, the truck would slow down pretty quick as you’re trying to jump out, so how do you time it correctly?

 

[Dark-Fx]

Hmm… now you’re making me wonder how you’d jump out of the truck while driving? Do you have to put it in Park? I don’t think you can put it in Park at speed. I suppose a quick double pull on the door handle could work. But, with regen on max, the truck would slow down pretty quick as you’re trying to jump out, so how do you time it correctly?

Tuck and roll

 

[COdogman]

Hmm… now you’re making me wonder how you’d jump out of the truck while driving? Do you have to put it in Park? I don’t think you can put it in Park at speed. I suppose a quick double pull on the door handle could work. But, with regen on max, the truck would slow down pretty quick as you’re trying to jump out, so how do you time it correctly?

 

[Killer95Stang]

Come to a stop, pull the door handle twice and step out of the R1T, leave the door open and go do your gate, mail, steal a lemon, pet a dog, smell a dandilion things. Truck will automatically go into park "all by itself". Step back in and pull down on the handle to put it back in drive... You just invented "Gate Mode"....

The alternative is to ask Rivian to install a mechanical arm that comes out of the frunk to reach over and unlock the gate.... but we will see how the new tonneau covers do first.

 

[Chewy734]

If you can control the jets, it could become an alternate mode of transportation that I can embrace.

 

[KeithPleas]

Come to a stop, pull the door handle twice and step out of the R1T...

Wait, that's "a thing"?

 

[Ralph]

Wait, that's "a thing"?

Yes.....

 

[BeanEW]

I think it would be much easier just to get a passenger that would do everything for you.

 

[sub]

How about they just make the current behavior a setting called nanny mode.

And if you turn it off it will not automatically park when you get out(right away...you can go ahead and park when it detects you've left and it is time to auto lock the door if that is enabled), will let you drive with the door open or your seat belt off or with your butt out of the seat because you're looking over your shoulder, or do anything else because it thinks it knows better than I do about what I should be doing.

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