I'm in the opposite boat. I don't want a vehicle to drive itself but I do love being able to have a more relaxed drive with current driver +, 3 hour drive this morning was very relaxing.
As someone mentioned if really worried about not having the latest and greatest. Lease an EV. My truck is so improved in 18 months of ownership it blows my mind.
The driver plus as it is now barely works. I don’t need full self driving, but I can’t go more than 10-15 minutes without the current system just quitting or getting confused. There are strips of road if works on and often it suddenly gives me a warning and disengages. Slightly inclement weather? Well Rivian driver plus stops working altogether in that circumsfanxs. It is really slightly above useless in its current form and it sounds like Rivian is basically screwing all of the 1st gen owners after promising all would be improved by updates over time.
I wonder if your truck might have a camera or calibration issue. Mine seems to never do what yours is doing and mine works just as I would expect it to without error?
Yeah mine is as good as the Autopilot v1 on the 2016 Model X it replaced, though more conservative in terms of shutting off before highway merges, tunnels etc. I have to manually change lanes but that works pretty well. And Driver+ doesn’t nag me like Autopilot.
Interesting, mine works about the same as. Blue Cruise and AP. I like Blue Cruise full hands free better but overall have about the same amount of "interruptions". Only real issue I have is in early morning sun, but all 3 have that issue.
You make a good point about leasing, but leasing is not an option when you adopt early. I have a Tesla too, and yes, they overpromise for sure, but my experience has been that any update they make, for years, included my Tesla. That's the right way to do things. Anyway, I can't say that I didn't accept the risk when I pre-ordered my Rivian. I was signing on to a new company, and I cannot expect them to have the same values or approach as Tesla. In some ways that is a good thing, in other's a bad.
I think it might be geography, as you suggested. I live in the suburbs of New York City, and it seems that Rivian relies on mapping to a large degree rather than the cameras just "seeing" the road, assessing the surroundings, and making decisions based on that. So since they have yet to map many areas, it has a lot of dead zones. Again, my gripe isn't that the experience sucks now with Driver+, I expected that going in. I'm just annoyed that they have decided to abandon those of us who bought the vehicles over the past 2 years by not putting the energy into evolving the system in our vehicles.
