Rivian said Thursday it plans to launch its driver assistance system in “in a few weeks” and said the “eye” version in 2026.
The Hander-Off System will allow Rivian to compete with companies like Ford and General Motors, which have launched similar systems in the past few years. (Ford named its system Blues, while GM has a super cleanup.) Tesla’s complete autonomous driving (supervised) system, despite its name, is not completely autonomous, requiring users to put their hands on the steering wheel.
This release comes as Rivian predicted another challenging year, largely due to uncertainty surrounding the changes surrounding the Trump administration. Regulatory policies may be formulated. The company did release its first positive gross profit in the fourth quarter of 2024. This is driven by company-wide cost-cutting boosts in 2024, but software and service revenues have also increased.
Rivian’s autonomy ambition was the former center when the company broke its invisibility in 2018. At that time, CEO RJ Scaringe was Talk about fantastic scenes Rivian owners can hike here and have their vehicles drive automatically to meet them at the end. But autonomy has taken over the back seats since at least a few years in public, as Rivian focused on completing its IPO and launching and expanding three different vehicles.
Rivian has now posted a few years of construction and delivery of about 50,000 cars and has some breathing space – thanks to a major deal with Vollkswagen late last year to focus on launching such Features like Hinker-Off Systems.
Rivian is training its driver assistance platform using so-called “end-to-end” training, and similar approaches to Tesla are also performed using its complete autonomous driving (supervisory) software. Rather than writing hard-coded rules, Rivian uses data from cameras and radar sensors to train models that power their driver-assisted systems.
Just like Ford and GM, Rivian first allowed the Hands-Off feature to be used only on the highway. CEO RJ Scaringe said Thursday that once Rivian launches the version of the eye in 2026, Rivian will slowly allow driver assistance systems to expand beyond other types of roads.
“Ultimately, the ultimate state, we think that the eyes of their eyes need to be available anywhere,” Scaringe said.
To achieve this, Scaringe said Rivian is evaluating “multiple creative ways we can access a large number of GPUs without having to deploy capital expenditures on our own” to train its autonomous driving model – a significant breakthrough in Tesla’s breakthrough Spend billions of dollars on GPUs.
