Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free

Re:Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Univ... by m463 on Thursday December 11, 2025 @05:24PM (#46238120)

I think it helps you drive. It takes away the tedium of driving and reduces your workload.

Big wins are: 1) stop-and-go traffic 2) long boring highway trips

infrequent but just as important - emergency braking

That said I absolutely hate that this seems to give tesla the "courage" to remove physical driver controls (like turn signal stalks, drive select stalks, full controls for wipers, lights and defrost)

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Re:Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Univ... by rootusrootus on Thursday December 11, 2025 @07:03PM (#46239173)

As an aside, IIRC they put the turn signal stalk back in a recent update. It saves them a few bucks per car to use buttons instead, but there are people who will not buy a Tesla without a turn-signal stalk -- and the loss on that is probably 500x what is saved by not putting in a stalk.

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Re:Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Univ... by m463 on Friday December 12, 2025 @04:07AM (#46242260)

do they do this for all cars? S/X, truck, 3/Y?

EDIT: looks like model 3 only and they didn't remove it from the y?

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