Rivian Activates Apple Car Key Support in Second-Generation Vehicles [Update: Coming Soon]

[dontwalkhand]

Having both a tesla and rivian, rivian has a better software/interface. I feel like carplay is great if you have a 5" screen. For these full screen vehicles, a much bigger interface is needed. Would be cool if it had some carplay ultra features, but can see why they don't use it.

Tesla has better self driving
Rivian has better interior and UX
Pick your poison

Side note:
Scout could be the coolest EV brand if they could launch with carplay ultra and if their vehicles look as good as the prototypes.

Rivian has no texting, Tesla does (and so do CarPlay cars like Porsche)

 

[artifex]

Rivian has no texting, Tesla does (and so do CarPlay cars like Porsche)

TBH fine with me, because:
1) don't text and drive!!!;
2) my family treats group rcs like a Slack channel and texts so many times a day, notification pings would be even more annoying from the car and not my phone;
3) if I'm safely parked somewhere, I think I'd rather pull out my phone to reply anyway.
I don't even remember that feature on the family's Y; maybe I need to re-pair like it keeps telling me for advanced features, to try it out? Oh: my family uses gifs and the rcs mixed stuff but hardly any emoji, so the car interface would have to handle those as well. And show link previews.

 

[Student of Life]

This is great. I will be getting my R1s in a couple weeks (switching from Tesla Model Y)!

The R1s is a nice car and more spacious than a Model Y.

How good is Rivian FSD or its equivalent? I spent a month trying FSD this summer in a Model Y 2024 model and it is a game changer. I was a skeptic as they come, but it worked amazingly for me, once i figured out you needed to change the settings in the car and not that app. This was FSD dealing with Miami drivers, i cant even explain how bad Miami drivers are in general lol.

 

[HalfOnWhole]

It’s crazy how many people feel passionately about CarPlay. I had it in my VW and rarely used it. I have a Rivian now and it’s the best UI I’ve ever had by far in a car. No interest in CarPlay whatsoever. I don’t need another reason to stare at my phone or its countless notifications all day. Yall are nuts.