Our Lengthy-Time period Rivian R1T Stopped Engaged on the Freeway

The dashboard of the Rivian revealed no warning lights and the infotainment display screen was nonetheless working because the truck got here to a cease in the course of the freeway. After just some seconds, impatient Angelenos had been infuriated, whizzing previous and giving Carrie and Ryan the traditional single-finger good day. It is price noting the Rivian would not have a begin/cease button, so there is not an apparent option to flip it off and again on. This makes it particularly troublesome for our staffers, who’re continually switching into new automobiles. There’s additionally the complication of the R1T’s reset course of — you do not merely flip it off and again on once more.

After slightly brainstorming, Carrie and Ryan determined to strive each trick within the e-book. They put the R1T into park, locked and unlocked the automotive, and opened and closed the doorways (in rush-hour visitors) to get the Rivian to come back again to life. It labored. In spite of everything that they had been in a position to place the truck into drive and rejoin the gauntlet. It was as if nothing occurred, and the dearth of warning lights or alerts from the automotive all through the ordeal indicated that the R1T did not suppose something was improper both. We expect this comes all the way down to a small bug that may end up in a significant trouble, and whereas we know EVs from startups might be pesky, patrons of a brand-new $80,000 automobile actually should not fear about the sort of downside.