Rivian said on Thursday that it planned to start a hand-off version of his driver assistance system for motorway driving “in a few weeks” and an “eye-off” version in 2026.
The hand-off system has Rivian competed with companies such as Ford and General Motors, which have both launched both similar systems in recent years. (Ford has named his system Bluecruise while GM is overwhelmed.) Tesla’s full self -driving (supervised) system, which despite its name is not fully autonomous, requires users to hold their hands on the bike.
The start comes, since Rivian predicts another challenging year, which is largely driven by uncertainty about what the Trump administration is changing Could make the regulatory guideline. The company achieved the first positive gross profit in the fourth quarter of 2024. This was provided by a company-wide cost reduction in 2024, but also an increase in software and service income.
Rivians autonomy ambitions were in front and in the middle when the company broke against each other in 2018. At that time the CEO RJ Scaringe was talk about dreamy scenarios Where Rivian owners start a hike and let their vehicles drive autonomously to meet them. But Autonomy has taken a back seat in the years since then – at least publicly – when Rivian focused on completing his IPO and starting and scaling three different vehicles.
Rivian has now released around 50,000 vehicles for two years and has some space for breathing thanks for a large business with Volkswagen that was completed at the end of last year to introduce itself to the introduction of functions such as a hand-off System to concentrate.
Rivian trains his driver aid platform with a so-called “end-to-end” training, a similar approach to Tesla with his complete self-driving (monitored) software. Instead of writing hard-encoded rules, Rivian uses data from the cameras and radar sensors to train the models that supply its driver assistance system with electricity.
Similar to Ford and GM, Rivian begins with the fact that the hands-off function can only be used on highways. Scaringe said on Thursday that Rivian, as soon as the resettlement version starts in 2026, can slowly expand the driver aid system beyond other types of roads.
“Ultimately, we think that the final state is quoted and must essentially be available everywhere,” said Scaringe.
In order to achieve this point, Scaringe said, Rivian evaluates a “variety of really creative possibilities that we can access to a considerable amount of GPUs without the investment Expose billions of dollars for GPUs.
