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Glad you're alright! I'll have a stiff drink on your behalf--I hope it helps soothe your jangled nerves. Keep us posted on the diagnosis, please--if it happened once, it can happen again.

Most auto crimes are purely opportunistic. The bad guys aren't intersted in going through a complex process. And very few even know that you have a frunk--if they were to break into that region, it would be to steal a battery. The flip side is much more of a concern: lots and lots of people will...

Priorities! I'd much rather have my face stuffed with simple carbohydrates and grease than my vehicle be neat and tidy. Much like my arteries.

Either on the area twixt the armrest and dash (it probably has a technical name, but I don't know what that is) or behind the driver's seat in a grocery bag hanging from the hook thoughtfully provided by Rivian engineers. It is one of the co-pilot/navigator's duties to reach back to get snacks...

No, really you don't--it's depressing.

Epitome. But this is the Internet--as long as there isn't a deepfake involved, I think we're ahead of the game and can be a bit loose with spelling and grammar. (The exception being the use, including by many members of this forum, of an apostrophe before an "s" to indicate plural. That is never...

As a promotion, they could throw in a free set of tie-downs!

If we're really lucky, they'll make some in beige!

I have literally never heard or read the phrase "car play" outside of this forum. It's been a good life! I think I'll keep it that way. Perhaps I'm missing out on a good thing. The people who encourage me to eat Surströmming also tell me I'm missing out on a good thing. I am coping with the...

I figure, if my phone goes out, I can always smash a window on the truck and hotwire it. That should work, right?

I agree on both points: pet mode is designed to be very quick to turn on/off for convenience, and, especially with the Gary image on the display, it is a fun poke at the ones you love second only to your actual pets! But I think there are some controls disabled when in pet mode, like the window...

"Camp Mode" should do it, with proper options selected. But, as has been observed, "Pet Mode" will also do most of what you want--and will give your passengers a good chuckle!

With pickled peppers--don't forget the peppers! And, possibly, "cheese." (Y'know, not like _real_ cheese--the sort that goes on salty meat in soggy bread.)

There have been several threads discussing encounters like these previously, but they really never get old. My most recent such encounter was with a clerk (a woman older than me) at a McDonald's at a truck stop not far from my house. The truck stop is on I55 in Hamel, IL--I55 is literally the...

Patents _do_ have their own language, but I don't think it extends to using a left-handed coordinate system. It doesn't really matter unless one uses the patent as a guide to cut a thread. It's just troubling on an abstract level.

Wait, am I the only one nerdy enough to be bothered by the fact that the coordinate system depicted in the patent is left-handed? 🤓

One of my all-time favorite opening scenes in a novel is Don DeLillo's "White Noise." As a long-time academician, I love "the day of the station wagons": "The station wagons arrived at noon, a long shining line that coursed through the west campus. In single file they eased around the orange...

Amazing photo! Welcome to the club (from an R1T owner granted honorary R1S status)!

Wow! Maybe I'll give you a shout when I'm in the area with my truck. My mother in-law lives in one of the granny kennels in your area, so I'll probably be doing the trip to visit one of these days. We can do a sit test!

I frequently wish we could do side-by-sides with each other's vehicles: are our vehicles actually performing differently or are we judging them differently? I wouldn't be too susprised if the quality control on a "minor" subsystem like the seat cooler allowed for lots of vehicle-to-vehicle...