Rivian CEO: The car drops you at the airport, then drives itself home | Invest 2026
Rivian founder and chief executive RJ Scaringe tells Pras Subramanian what a self-driving car you own would actually do: drive you to the airport and come home by itself, pick up the kids from school, let you watch a movie in the back. He calls the full version level four, where the car can drive itself empty, and says Rivian is launching point-to-point driving first as a step toward it. He also explains why a rules-based car falls apart at a roundabout, why Rivian trains what it calls a large driver model instead, and why he thinks robotaxis take American car ownership from around 95% to around 90% rather than to zero. Figures here are his own.
Featuring:
RJ Scaringe, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Rivian
Pras Subramanian, Senior Reporter, Yahoo Finance
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Timestamps
0:00 Why he started Rivian in the first place
1:13 R1 was the handshake. R2 is the scale product
3:33 The car drives you to the airport and comes home empty
5:50 Rules against neural nets, and the Missouri driver in New York
8:17 Robotaxis, and why he thinks ownership holds
10:49 “Instead of somebody like Doug Field, I’m gonna get the Doug Field”
12:14 Is AI moving too fast?
13:46 “It’s not a sentient being”
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