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Anecdotally, I disagree. My audience skews tech, not cars, and Rivian still invites me to events with zero expectation that I publish anything—a factory tour and the R1S launch both came and went without a video from me. I’ve been openly critical of them, too, and never once worried about losing...

I was hoping this conveyed itself through the post but it seems not. In manual mode (which is limited to the $4,500 bikes), you do get pedal resistance. Pedal in 8th “gear” from a stop and it’ll be hard. Pedal in 1st gear at 15MPH and nothing will happen. But that’s only in manual mode. In...

I hear you on that. I also suspect that it would be fairly trivial to add GPS based restrictions for trails given the bike has on-board GPS and cellular connectivity should they decide to do so voluntarily or following new regulation.

That’ll be available from day 1. Including route planning and range estimation.

I would urge you to read the post. Or ChatGPT the text to see if your question was already answered before you asked it. :)

I blame RJ

bike go vroom but quiet

I just spent the day in San Francisco riding a bike unlike any other I’ve ever ridden. This is it. It’s not your average looking or functioning bike—and that may not come as a surprise once you hear it’s the result of that secret skunkworks project that spun out of automaker Rivian earlier this...

Hopefully this isn’t considered self-promotion, but I think many here will find it interesting. Rivian loaned me a gen 2 media car for a week to test out the new hands-free Enhanced Highway Assist as part of the new gen 2-exclusive Rivian Autonomy Platform. I also compare it to Tesla FSD...

The title says it all, folks! Rivian has invited me to moderate a Q&A fireside chat with Wassym Bensaid this Wednesday, November 20th, at their Cars & Coffee event at the LA Auto Show. I'm here to ask for questions you have that you'd like me to ask! Got questions you'd like me to ask? Wassym...

If you don’t know what an ECU is, that ain’t on me lol

UGH! I totally forgot to honk. Some folks at Rivian were teasing me for asking and I’m like… no this is a big deal but then I fumbled and forgot to.

Nope.

Great. So we are all in agreement. Haha