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https://www.thedrive.com/news/rivia...omised-up-to-1-25-billion-and-50000-r2-orders
During Rivian’s Autonomy and AI day in December, the EV maker announced an expansion of its Universal Hands-Free Level 2 driver assistance system to cover 3.5 million miles of roads across the U.S. and Canada. The R2, which is finally going on sale this spring, will be able to take advantage of that, as will second-generation R1S and R1T models on the automaker’s latest electrical architecture.
At a time when some manufacturers, like Mercedes and BMW, are pausing deployment of their more advanced Level 3 autonomous driving systems, Rivian is going full steam ahead. It even plans to deploy lidar in the R2 before the end of this year, in tandem with its own custom-designed silicon to handle all self-driving tasks. If you view Rivian as less of a company that makes utility vehicles, and rather, a company that builds hardware and software that happen to go into utility vehicles, then this partnership makes all the sense in the world.
During Rivian’s Autonomy and AI day in December, the EV maker announced an expansion of its Universal Hands-Free Level 2 driver assistance system to cover 3.5 million miles of roads across the U.S. and Canada. The R2, which is finally going on sale this spring, will be able to take advantage of that, as will second-generation R1S and R1T models on the automaker’s latest electrical architecture.
At a time when some manufacturers, like Mercedes and BMW, are pausing deployment of their more advanced Level 3 autonomous driving systems, Rivian is going full steam ahead. It even plans to deploy lidar in the R2 before the end of this year, in tandem with its own custom-designed silicon to handle all self-driving tasks. If you view Rivian as less of a company that makes utility vehicles, and rather, a company that builds hardware and software that happen to go into utility vehicles, then this partnership makes all the sense in the world.
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