"Five minutes later, a man carefully pushed it out of everyone's way, the words "I'm stuck" flashing yellow on the poor droid's screen. It was an inauspicious start to Rivian's "Autonomy & AI Day," a showcase for the company's plans to make its vehicles capable of driving themselves. Rivian doesn't make the cafeteria robot and isn't responsible for its abilities, but there was a familiar message in its foibles: this stuff is hard."
"During my demo drive, there was one actual disengagement. The employee in the driver's seat took over as we passed through a one-lane section of road due to some tree-trimming. Minor stuff overall. But it wasn't not exactly rare either; I spotted multiple other demo rides that had disengagements too. The rest of the drive went well enough for software that is not ready to be shipped,"
An indoor delivery robot got stuck in Rivian's Palo Alto cafeteria, underscoring the challenges of autonomous systems. A 2025 R1S SUV equipped with Rivian's new Large Driving Model completed a demo route, stopping at stoplights, handling turns, and slowing for speed bumps without rule-based instructions. The vehicle braked sharply when a Model S slowed to turn, and a human took control once during a one-lane tree-trimming section; multiple other demo rides also experienced disengagements. Rivian discarded its deterministic, rules-based assistance architecture in favor of an end-to-end approach similar to Tesla's Full Self-Driving, but the software is not yet ready for shipping.
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