Rivian’s new update could make your EV feel like Knight Rider (or Back to the Future)

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Rivian’s getting into the Halloween spirit by adding caller “car costumes” to its electrical vehicles that tin taxable retired its screens to look similar the Time Machine interface from Back to the Future oregon KITT from Knight Rider. (It’ll animate reddish KITT-like scanner lights connected the beforehand of the car, too.) There’s besides a non-IP-specific “Haunted” taxable that displays a ghostly static TV surface wrong the car.

The costumes volition travel via a bundle update Rivian volition rotation retired close aft midnight section clip contiguous (October 18th astatine 12:01am). R1T and R1S vehicles indispensable already person the 2024.39 update installed to get the caller features, arsenic good arsenic the latest mentation of the mobile app.

KITT Driver screen.

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KITT halfway screen.

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There are immoderate diagnostic differences to support successful caput based connected whether you person a Gen 1 oregon Gen 2 Rivian vehicle; for instance, Gen 1 won’t get the exterior KITT reddish scanner airy beam.

BTTF Time Machine operator screen.

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Rivian rear surface with Back to the Future theme.

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Once you get the update, they enactment arsenic follows:

Knight Rider

To acceptable Knight Rider arsenic your Car Costume, find the Get Spooky paper connected the main leafage of your Rivian Mobile App. You’ll prime the Gear Guard dressed arsenic Michael Knight to activate. From there, your interior show strategy volition diagnostic K.I.T.T.’s diagnostics connected surface and play the archetypal amusement intro music. For Gen 2 owners, the exterior lightbar volition cascade a reddish beam conscionable similar K.I.T.T. and exude its iconic scanner dependable effect, creating the eventual Knight Rider experience.

Back to the Future

In the mobile app, you’ll spot Gear Guard dressed up arsenic Doc Brown. By selecting ‘Time Machine’ arsenic your car costume, you’ll spot the interior surface amusement the iconic Back to the Future interface, arsenic good arsenic euphony and the Time Machine acceleration dependable effect from the film.

Haunted Rivian

Hit Gear Guard dressed arsenic a scarecrow to trigger our Haunted Rivian Car Costume done the mobile app. This Car Costume has 8 antithetic dependable effects and 3 antithetic colour themes to take from, ranging betwixt purple, yellow, red, and green. This volition instrumentality implicit your interior show surface with static and ghosts. Gen 1 owners volition get a greenish animation connected the vehicle’s exterior, and exclusively for Gen 2 owners, the exterior airy barroom volition bespeak whichever colour enactment you take from, for a frightfully amusive experience.

Haunted theme.

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Rivian vehicles typically amusement pedestrians, cars, and bicyclists that are astir you connected its operator screen, and with the Halloween update, it volition present crook them into zombies and headless horsemen. There are different easter eggs arsenic well, including crows, pumpkins, and greenish flames successful the Camp mode, positive “spooky” 3D artwork connected the vehicle’s antithetic thrust modes.

More KITT theme.

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Rivian’s Halloween taxable ideas are successful enactment with immoderate of the easter ovum bundle updates that Tesla often releases, including synchronized Christmas euphony airy shows, a Mario Kart-esque rainbow road, and 2001: A Space Odyssey-themed Sentry Mode information system. Tesla didn’t person support to usage that past one, truthful the institution changed it to Portal turret bots.

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