Rivian said Thursday that he plans to launch a hand version of the driver’s aid system for running the highway “Within a few weeks”, and an “Sy-Off” version in 2026.
The hand system will allow Rivian to compete with companies such as Ford and General Motors, both of which have started similar systems in recent years. (Ford has named his BlueCruise system, while the GM has supercruise.) The full system of self-direction (supervised), which is not fully autonomous regardless of its name, requires users to hold their hands on the wheel .
Departure comes while Rivian is anticipating another challenging year, driven in a large part of the uncertainty about what the Trump administration changes can do in regulatory policy. The company posted its first gross positive profit in the fourth quarter of 2024. This was increased by a cost reduction effort throughout the enterprise in 2024, but also an increase in software and services revenue.
The ambitions of Rivian’s autonomy were money and centers when the company broke the robbery in 2018. At that time, CEO RJ Scaringe was talking about dream scenarios, where Rivian owners could begin an increase and their vehicles autonomously drive meet them at the end. But autonomy took a back place in the years since – at least publicly – while Rivian focused on the end of its IPO, and the release and scaling of three different vehicles.
Rivian has now posted years under construction and distribution of about 50,000 vehicles, and has a large-scale breathing room with Volkswagen finalized at the end of last year-to focus on overturning features as a system of the hands.
Rivian is training his driver’s aid platform using what is known as “End to End” training, a similar approach to what Tesla is making with its full (supervised) self-direction software. Instead of writing difficult -coded rules, Rivian uses data from cameras and radar sensors to train models that strengthen his driver’s help system.
Like Ford and GM, Rivian is starting by allowing the hand feature to be used only on the highway. Scaringe said on Thursday that after the eye version begins in 2026, Rivian will slowly allow the driver’s aid system to expand beyond other types of roads.
“After all, the final situation, we think without hands, the eyes should be essentially available everywhere,” Scaringe said.
To reach that point, Scaringe said Rivian is appreciating a “variety of truly creative ways, we can access a significant amount of GPUs without having to put Capex ourselves” in order to train the models of his self-direction-a noticeable break from how Tesla is spending billions of dollars on GPU.
