Rivian said Thursday that he planned to launch a practical version of his driver’s driver help system “in a few weeks” and a “eyes-off” version in 2026.
The system without intervention will allow Rivian to compete with companies like Ford and General Motors, which have both launched similar systems in recent years. (Ford has named its Bluecruise system, while GM A Supercruise.) The complete autonomous driving system (supervised) of Tesla, which is not entirely autonomous despite its name, obliges users to keep their hands on the wheel.
The launch occurs while Rivian plans another difficult year, largely motivated by uncertainty around what changes the Trump administration could do the regulatory policy. The company published its first positive gross benefit in the fourth quarter of 2024. This was supported by an effort to reduce the company’s scale in 2024 but also an increase in income from software and services.
The ambitions of Rivian’s autonomy were front-and-prime when the company broke stealth in 2018. At that time, CEO RJ Scarenge was talk about dream scenarios Where the Rivian owners could start a hike and have their vehicles drive independently to meet them on arrival. But autonomy has taken a rear seat in the years since – at least publicly – as Rivian has focused on carrying out its IPO and launching and scaling three different vehicles.
Rivian has now displayed consecutive years of construction and delivery of around 50,000 vehicles, and has a certain breathing room – thanks to a major agreement with the finalization of Volkswagen at the end of last year – to focus on the deployment of features as a labor system.
Rivian Formation of his driving aid platform using what is called “end-to-end” training, a similar approach to what Tesla does with her complete autonomous (supervised) software. Instead of writing hard code rules, Rivian uses data from cameras and radar sensors to train models that feed its driver assistance system.
Like Ford and GM, Rivian begins by allowing the functionality of hands to be used only on motorways. Scargege said Thursday that once the eye version will be launched in 2026, Rivian will slowly allow the driver’s help system to develop beyond other types of roads.
“In the end, the final state, we believe that hands free, the eyes must be available essentially everywhere,” said Scarge.
To reach this point, Scarenge said that Rivian assesses a “variety of truly creative ways that we can access a substantial quantity of GPU without having to deploy the CAPEX ourselves” in order to form its autonomous models – a notable rupture of the way Tesla is Spend billions of dollars in GPU.
