According to SawyerMerritt on X, Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said the company will compete with Tesla’s large fleet by deploying more high dynamic range cameras and supplementing with LiDAR to improve safety in edge cases and accelerate training of vision models; he added that Rivian cut autonomy costs by bringing inference in house after previously using an Nvidia inference platform in customer cars (as reported in a new interview shared by MatthewBerman on X). According to MatthewBerman on X, Scaringe outlined an autonomy roadmap emphasizing real driving data collection on upcoming R2 vehicles as a “data machine,” a combined sensor strategy of vision plus LiDAR, and a near term focus on scalable, safer driver assistance rather than speculative robotaxi timelines. As reported by MatthewBerman on X, Scaringe also noted that once models are very robust, the sensor suite could be simplified, but he cautioned it is not yet clear that corner cases can be fully covered without LiDAR or additional sensors, underscoring a pragmatic, safety first path to commercial autonomy.