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I've had the R1T for a week now, figured I'd share some thoughts and suggestions. Not sure if anyone from Rivian reads these kind of things, but why not.
First, the truck is friggin' awesome. It's everything good about Teslas in a much more fun and capable package. Seriously, I really can't believe how good it is, and I was expecting it to be good. The build quality is awesome, the drive and handling characteristics are great, the UX is great so far, all around it is way better than a 6XXX VIN car has any right to be. I'm really impressed. Everyone I've shown it to is really impressed. It's that good.
I'll spare you all an amateur review as there are enough professional ones out there already that I largely agree with. Here are the things I think could would make for awesome improvements. I am well aware that this is early in the game and these are by no means gripes, rather things I think will enhance the truck through the OTA update process. I really can't wait to see what and how they keep improving.
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First, the truck is friggin' awesome. It's everything good about Teslas in a much more fun and capable package. Seriously, I really can't believe how good it is, and I was expecting it to be good. The build quality is awesome, the drive and handling characteristics are great, the UX is great so far, all around it is way better than a 6XXX VIN car has any right to be. I'm really impressed. Everyone I've shown it to is really impressed. It's that good.
I'll spare you all an amateur review as there are enough professional ones out there already that I largely agree with. Here are the things I think could would make for awesome improvements. I am well aware that this is early in the game and these are by no means gripes, rather things I think will enhance the truck through the OTA update process. I really can't wait to see what and how they keep improving.
Navigation
- GPS location jumps around any time the car moves an inch or two at a stoplight. Seems to clamp motion only when the car is completely stopped. This often causes it to start rerouting from the next street over if routing is active. Not sure what's actually happening on the backend here.
- Not possible to set another zoom level and maintain map centering/tracking (in the Tesla for example, you can zoom/pan and when you click "recenter" it will stay at the current zoom level)
- Have had a number of times where it just fails to route (I think this is probably just connectivity issues)
- Sometimes won't load any content in the Spotify "app." This is resolved by switching to radio and then right back. Might get hung with intermittent connectivity?
- When changing to a different mode that requires a suspension change, it would be better if it only goes to the next closest level. For example, if you're currently in "highest" in Offroad Mode, and you switch to All Purpose (which can support high-standard-low), then only automatically go to high - it's the next most acceptable level. Otherwise you can end up going down to standard when you really want to go up to high.
- When raising and reservoir is empty, display should indicate the reason itās taking so long. Otherwise, seems like raising is broken - it'll keep blinking for a very long time and compared to raising with reservoir pressure, it seems like nothing is happening. This is really just an FYI kind of thing for new people.
- When gear guard appears at start of drive (due to recorded motion) it should self clear and return to last selected screen when switching to drive/reverse. Otherwise, you always end up with a "shift to park to view videos" alert on the screen when you go into gear. Should also not replace the ā5th optionā unless specifically selected by user (I like to keep Cameras there)
- Would be nice to have the other side cameras record also
- Gear guard seems to record not on motion but using object detection - maybe even only when it sees people? This means it does a really good job at filtering out noise (like trees moving) but it seems liable to miss, for example, another car hitting the Rivian and driving away
- Would be good if it continued to record so long as there was motion, plus some (user configurable?) time after. And maybe even buffer pre-event into the recording if possible.
- I'm sure this is coming, but... dashcam recording all the time will be a big upgrade.
- The shortest following distance is still way too far. I am sure this is out of an abundance of caution early on, but here in the northeast where everyone is always in a hurry, a 5+ car length following distance is an invitation for someone to rage-pass and cut you off, which only makes the truck back off even more.
- The website describes lane changes using "Lane Change Assist" but as far as I can tell it is not possible to change lanes while using D+/Highway assist yet
- Top speed should really be 90
- And of course, I would like to see this work everywhere, not just "mapped" roads (which I suspect aren't really mapped at all - it does seem to use vision, and maybe just relies on the nav system to say it's a "restricted access road")
- Very much would like to see proximity open/close (like Tesla), maybe even auto mirror as well.
- 24 hour time, please!
- Would like to have the option to change to % battery power on the IC
- Would like to see a little more in the way of stats and info on the IC and center display. We're all nerds, the more stats the better! (kW, torque, pitch/roll angles, distance measurements for ultrasonics, etc)
- It's super early, and I'm sure this'll evolve over time, but I'd love to be able to do as much of what can be done on the center screen as possible on the app!
- I do want to note that the fact that you can control the vehicle (lock/unlock/climate) over BLE only (even without cellular/data) is a huge, awesome feature, especially for people who go off the beaten trail. Really neat.
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