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Rivian’s Gambit for Full Autonomy
Official Source8 September 2026

Rivian’s Gambit for Full Autonomy

Executive Briefing & Key Highlights

I’m sitting in a Rivian R1S SUV as it drives itself down the leafy streets of Palo Alto, Calif., through areas crowded with touchstones of tech history. We cruise near the landmark HP Garage, the one-car workshop where Hewlett-Packard, and, arguably, Silicon Valley, was founded in 1939. I skirt Stanford University, where a team led by computer science professor Sebastian Thrun won a US $2 million

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