godfodder0901
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- Jared
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- 2004 Honda Civic EX, 2022 Rivian R1T LE
You clearly have the right to make that choice, and I hope it all works out for you. That said, don't hold your breath. Rivian has repeatedly said that they will not support CarPlay or Android Auto.I won't buy the truck if they don't add non subscription wireless carplay.
Carplay means two things to me:
1) I don't need to pay for a monthly data plan for my car, to use any internet features.
2) a decade (+-) from now, with Rivian stops sending updates out for the nav, the feature set on the nav will remain up to date.
I buy cars and keep them for a long time, and tend to have 5-6 of them. I refuse to pay for a data plan for each car, and nothing dates a car faster than an obsolete ICE setup (which carplay avoids).
Plus, even today it doesn't have the features I want-- Apple Music and Waze for nav/police alerts .
So, if they won't add it, I'll just wait for a truck that does. AFAIK, Tesla is the ONLY company out there not offering CarPlay. Not coincidentally, I've never owned a Tesla and currently have no intention to.
Meanwhile, my 20 year old M5 and 15 year old M3s (purchased new) have wireless Carplay, giving me every ICE feature I actually care about in modern cars
No carplay guarantees tech obsolescence and means you have to pay a monthly data plan (once the free included period is over). To me, that is unacceptable.
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