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Situation: My wife took my son to a doctor's appointment this morning in our 2025 R1S, all good. Some time during the drive the infotainment display just showed a Rivian logo - nav, climate control, etc. were all gone and unlike a Tesla you can not do a soft reset while driving. Luckily the drivers display was still on and she knew where she was going so proceeded to the appointment. Coming out of the appointment the vehicle was dead. Both screens were just black. Get out, lock, unlock, no change. My son Googled the reset procedure and the soft reset did nothing. He then found the hard reset and was able to get the vehicle restarted. WTF?!
I've owned a number of EV's from Polestar and Tesla over the last few years. Total number of times I've had an unresponsive vehicle: zero.
But this isn't it. Every time there is a software "update" something gets knocked out. One time it was Spotify (soft reset and log back in), another time it was TuneIn (hard reset and log back in twice), another it was my blind spot cameras - just AWOL as was the turn signal cancelling on highways despite both being set to 'on' in settings and nothing changing on my end.
It's one thing if I had a five or six year old vehicle and software updates were buggering things, I'd still be peeved but would understand a bit better. This is a Feb 2025 delivered 2025 model year Gen 2 - theoretically this is the first thing Rivian is engineering and testing against. As a dual motor, it's probably the largest part of the fleet being delivered in 2025. There is nothing newer available, this is as good as it gets in terms of the computing and networking stack. Where is the QA?
Somehow we're supposed to believe Rivian is ready for autonomous driving? Even regular driving seems to be hard to keep going. This isn't some $40K ID.4, MachE or Ioniq 5. This rig costs twice as much as all of those. Heck, I purchased a used Tesla Model Y last September for the kids and that has had fewer issues by far than this Rivian.
Be better Rivian, be better. Not at advertising and brand marketing but you can't tout "software defined vehicles" while not being so good at software. And yes, VW will figure this out as well.
I've owned a number of EV's from Polestar and Tesla over the last few years. Total number of times I've had an unresponsive vehicle: zero.
But this isn't it. Every time there is a software "update" something gets knocked out. One time it was Spotify (soft reset and log back in), another time it was TuneIn (hard reset and log back in twice), another it was my blind spot cameras - just AWOL as was the turn signal cancelling on highways despite both being set to 'on' in settings and nothing changing on my end.
It's one thing if I had a five or six year old vehicle and software updates were buggering things, I'd still be peeved but would understand a bit better. This is a Feb 2025 delivered 2025 model year Gen 2 - theoretically this is the first thing Rivian is engineering and testing against. As a dual motor, it's probably the largest part of the fleet being delivered in 2025. There is nothing newer available, this is as good as it gets in terms of the computing and networking stack. Where is the QA?
Somehow we're supposed to believe Rivian is ready for autonomous driving? Even regular driving seems to be hard to keep going. This isn't some $40K ID.4, MachE or Ioniq 5. This rig costs twice as much as all of those. Heck, I purchased a used Tesla Model Y last September for the kids and that has had fewer issues by far than this Rivian.
Be better Rivian, be better. Not at advertising and brand marketing but you can't tout "software defined vehicles" while not being so good at software. And yes, VW will figure this out as well.
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