Rivian house owners can now watch their EVs remotely

Rivian on Wednesday started rolling out a significant software program replace to house owners of its vehicles and SUVs, permitting them to remotely test the onboard cameras on their EVs. The characteristic known as Gear Guard Stay Cam, and is especially supposed to allow you to scope out alarm notifications from the Rivian cellular app for iPhone and Android. It’s also possible to tune into video at any time, nonetheless — say should you’re tenting, and need to ensure that bear has lastly wandered away. It is loosely just like the Sentry Mode accessible to Tesla house owners.

The replace contains another notable additions, above all Dynamic Headlamp Leveling. Restricted to Gen 2 fashions onwards, this adjusts your headlights on the fly to keep up secure diffusion, no matter how laborious you are accelerating or braking, or should you’re vibrating on tough terrain. In principle, it ought to get rid of the jittery illumination offroaders are used to at evening.

Rivian has additionally added Tri-Zone HVAC, making it attainable for the motive force, entrance passenger, and rear passengers to have separate heating/AC settings. Folks in rear passenger seats could make temperature changes through the rear-mounted show, however just for themselves, not anybody within the entrance — presumably to stop youngsters from wreaking havoc on their dad and mom.

Lastly, a minor change is the presence of latest animations explaining Experience Top, Brake Regen, Stability, and Experience Really feel settings in Drive Modes. You may see these if you go to vary the related toggles, the thought being that you will higher perceive their results.

How do I get the Rivian software program replace?

You might want some endurance

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Because the rollout is just simply getting underway, it might take a while to succeed in your car. You ought to be prompted to put in it sooner or later when your Rivian is in Park and linked to the web. It’s also possible to attempt to pressure the replace sooner in one among two methods:

1. Go to Settings -> Automobile -> Updates in your dashboard show and faucet Replace Now.
2. Within the Rivian cellular app, go to About -> Automobile Software program Settings. If the replace is prepared, you’ll set off it right here.

It’s best to be capable of get the replace through both Wi-Fi or mobile, with or with no Join+ subscription, however we advocate utilizing Wi-Fi — it is liable to be quicker and extra secure.