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Rivian doesn't have parking pawls in the drivetrains. Would you rather the vehicle roll away after getting out? Obviously your answer is yes with your attitude.An adventure vehicle with no spare and no compressor to refill a tire after plugging it would be as bad as disabling a vehicle from driving if the parking brake fails. Oh wait... Never mind.
Yah, probably leaving door open for possible return of Explore trim. Doesn't mean it will happen. Economy, demand and company financials all play a part. But given today's prices on the R1 and the projected $40k start for R2... not a far stretch to justify re-introducing a lower trimmed R1.It has said if equipped in the manual since I got my truck a year ago iirc.
Please stay on private lands then, don't share your dangerous shit with me. I am not willing to be part of your experiment.I would rather be able to drive the thing out of the middle of nowhere instead of refusing to move because of the parking brake or the hood doesn't know it's closed. I'll happily stop on flat ground or get a rock to put under the wheel so I don't have to abandon and walk instead. Sometimes putting into gear will eventually creep has compression bleeds without a parking brake. In fact, if the hydraulic brakes fail, I'd like to limp it out on regen and vs versa. Cars needs two separate brakes systems for sure. Hydraulic, cable, electric or regen combination. My Audi has an electric parking/emergency brake. Our GX has a completely separate cable operated drum brake inside the rear discs. Been there in the middle of Mexico with a broken master cylinder on an fj40 and a poor parking brake. Drove all the way out just using low range and the parking brake. If a vehicle breaks, YES I want to be able to tow it back across a long dirt road without it spontaneously shifting into park refusing to move. If one EV motor fails I want to drive it out on the others.
That is absolutely 100% my attitude. As a technical diver I can't imagine a system where, say a breathing regulator fails and then my gas gets switched off because, well it's loosing air and we can't have that; never mind you need to breathe. Break out the smartphone and call someone. That's the world we live in I guess. Last night this girl sat in front of me in her Dodge charger for about five minutes idling while I waited for her; as I was tandem blocked in. Finally the Valet who had parked her car came to assist because she didn't know how to release the parking brake but had managed to find the hood release. Rivian owners are super adventurous akin to Jeep and Subaru owners from what I've seen here. They want more.
Never sent you an invite to begin with. Sounds like you're the one more comfortable on private lands. Some people are web wheelers and that's all good. Cars break down. Shit, as you say, happens and I don't want to stranded for no good reason, flat tire experiment or not.Please stay on private lands then, don't share your dangerous shit with me. I am not willing to be part of your experiment.
For those of us who have been around a minute, we've already got a portable compressor.Shrug. Not that hard to add accessory air compressor to any car. Just need a 12V source (and mounting points). It’d be wise of them to make future products as modular as possible, so all accessories can be simple plug-n-play; be it on the assembly line or DIY (and aftermarket).