Rivian Owners Report Highway Assist Issues After 2025.26, Rivian Promises Improvements

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Rivian’s 2025.26 update has brought one of the biggest shifts yet in driver assistance tech. As we noted earlier this week, Rivian quietly dropped Mobileye from Highway Assist and fully switched over to their own in-house hardware that has shipped with every Gen 2 vehicle. Read our earlier coverage here. That’s a bold move, but it hasn’t come without growing pains.…

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RJ Says Rivian Will Deliver Point-to-Point Hands-Free Driving by 2026

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Back in January 2025, we reported that Rivian was aiming to bring “eyes-off” autonomy by 2026 (read here). Then in February, we followed up with news that hands-free highway driving was launching for Gen 2 R1 vehicles, which did in fact arrive a few weeks later (coverage here). Now Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe is doubling down. In a recent appearance…

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Rivian Gen 2 Highway Assist May Have Quietly Dropped Mobileye in Latest Update

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Reddit user u/mpshizzle may have uncovered a major under-the-hood change in Rivian’s Gen 2 driver assistance system. While Rivian hasn’t said anything official, their testing points to a shift away from Mobileye hardware and toward Rivian’s own perception stack in the latest 2025.26 update. Back when Gen 2 launched, Rivian showed off new custom 4K HDR cameras. But earlier testing suggested that…

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Rivian Opens AI Development Hub in London to Advance Autonomous Driving

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Rivian is officially heading to London. This morning, the EV maker announced a brand-new international office in the UK, focused entirely on artificial intelligence development. The goal? To build out a global hub for Rivian’s next-generation autonomy efforts. This new London office joins Rivian’s growing international footprint, which already includes teams in Vancouver, Amsterdam, and Belgrade. So why the UK?…

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