The Rivian R1T and its SUV sibling the R1S are revolutionary autos with distinctive options. An proprietor lately came upon precisely how the emergency or parking brake features by unintended trial and error by urgent the Park button. And so they simply occurred to be on the freeway after they did it.

First posted over on the Rivian Group Fb web page and picked up by The Drive, R1T proprietor Daniel Goldburg kindly posted what initially was a warning to different Rivian drivers. “Harmful… has anybody pressed the park button by mistake whereas driving?” he asks the group. Goldburg was trying to activate his windshield washer jets however merely hit the flawed button.

It seems that if you happen to hit after which maintain the park button whereas the automotive is in movement that it’ll decelerate quickly. As Goldburg places it, he “let go of the button shortly… and there was no problem. However I may see somebody doing this and it doubtlessly inflicting an accident.”

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Fortunately, different homeowners chimed in not lengthy after to clarify what was occurring. Urgent and holding the Park button prompts the Rivian’s emergency brake. It’s even within the proprietor’s handbook underneath “Emergency Deceleration.” There, it tells homeowners “If the brakes don’t work correctly, press and maintain the Park button to instantly decelerate. An emergency deceleration notification seems on the motive force show.”

It additionally notes that if you happen to launch the Park button the car will cease decelerating. House owners may also press the accelerator pedal to cancel the emergency deceleration. That’s actually just like what Goldburg appears to have skilled. Curiously, he’s not the one Rivian proprietor to assert that they’ve made the identical mistake.

“Even after collaborating on this put up this morning I hit the park button to cycle the windshield wipers as we speak,” mentioned one remark. “Ive [sic] performed it too. Scared the crap out of me. I don’t prefer it. It’s the place cruise features are positioned,” learn one other. A 3rd remark about it mentioned “Yup. Identical occurred to me whereas making an attempt to study the cruise management features. Pucker issue was off the charts. I used to be shocked the truck tried to cease.”

The doubtless troublesome design isn’t distinctive to Rivian autos although. One commenter known as out Tesla for an similar design.