Less then one week of ownership and I feel like have the first R2 dent from someone opening their door into my car. Also Gear Guard isn’t available yet so I can’t even get mad watching the video of the person that did it.
I got to pickup my R2 last week. I already own launch editions of the GEN1 R1T and GEN2 R1S. I just wanted to share some things I have liked and noticed plus give some feedback on things I have seen in the community.
Some people are concerned about the manual release handles for the front and rear doors. I wasn’t aware of where they were when I looked for them and found them pretty quickly. The front doors are a handle tucked into the cubby. The rear ones are in a similar place but require you to pop off a cover and pull a yellow cord. I had no issue taking off the cover or pulling the cord.
The side view cameras while parallel parking are a little taller. Very nice for making sure you don’t curb your wheels.
The garage door opener functionality is technically not available but you can set it up. Looks like they are adding a prompt radius configuration option. I always wanted it to prompt me earlier so the doors would be fully open by the time I pulled up.
The Haptic Halo wheels do need a little adjustment. There is just a smidge too much play vertically before you get resistance. This causes pushes inwards to be a smidge inaccurate. I’m pretty sure this can be adjusted with an OTA in the future.
Profile switching doesn’t really work right now. It’s not remembering me and my wife’s settings. Hopefully this will be fixed next release.
One of my biggest gripes with the R1 vehicles are the exterior and interior door handles. The R2 have substantially smoother(not creaky) exterior handles. My 4 year old can operate them no problem. The interior handles are wrapped in the vegan leather and more substantial.
Overall the vehicle is great. It’s going to dominate the mid size suv segment. It’s such nice size and well balanced.
I have an early reservation plus an R1 currently. The email I received today says I should be able to order in the next few weeks.
My buddy doesn’t have an R1 and his emails say you should have an ETA by the end of the Month.
Looks like people that are going to be able to order soon should have gotten the first email.
I have been playing around with the Rivian Assistant for an hour and overall I am impressed in the direction they are heading. Definitely some kinks to work out but a great initial product. Here are some things I was able to do in single command:
- Asked it to navigate to an address and once it has an ETA send the ETA to a contact as a text
- Play a song based upon lyrics
- Chain all the settings you want adjusted at once(change the cabin to 70, turn on my heated seats, turn on the passenger cooled seats and play a song)
- I was able to set a routine. I told it when I tell you I’m home please open the garage door, change the drive mode to all purpose, turn the music down to 5 and text my wife that I’m home
Kinks:
- I can see my contact addresses in the UI but it won’t navigate to a contact’s address
- Struggled to navigate to an address sent to me as a text
I’m interested to see if the memory functionality will keep the routine I set up. I’ll leave it alone for a while and see if it works when I take a drive later.
Edit: it didn’t remember my “I’m home routine” but it did remember that I said my wife is X in my contact list