Can Rivian and Chevy Beat Tesla's FSD? Let's find Out! (Full Test)

0:00 Self-driving technology has become a big selling point in vehicles nowadays. And here's the three leaders in my opinion. So, we have GM's Super Cruise on this brand new Chevy Traverse. You have Tesla with their full self-driving technology on this 2026 Model Y. And then on this R1S, you have Riven's autonomy platform with their universal hands-free driving system. I have the 46 update on this R1S. So today, I'm going to show you the capabilities of these different self-driving technologies, show you where certain ones fall short and where other ones exceed, and ultimately come to a conclusion of which one is the best. Or maybe there's one of these that doesn't do all of the features, but gives you what you want at a lower cost.

0:47 So, with GM's Super Cruise technology, that is a $3,995 add-on package to this Chevy Traverse. This gives you the capability to self-park and it gives you the capability on mapped interstates to change lanes and stay within your lane so you can sit there and relax on your drive. So, first we're going to start with parking capabilities. I'm going to show you where Super Cruise cannot be used and then we're going to show you on the highways the capabilities that it has. So, first we'll start with parking. All right. So, on the main screen here it says auto park assist. So, you click that and then it asks you how you would like to park. We're going to do perpendicular right. And you can see up out ahead there's just a wide open parking lot here. I'm curious to see if

1:32 it needs a reference point because you can see I will let you know when we are in position to back in. Obviously there's there's 90 spots open over here and it's not showing any. So it probably needs a reference point which is going to be the cart return. All right. Didn't uh didn't see any there. No parking spaces. See if it does it this way. There we go. Okay. Do you want to park in the space you see behind us? Yes.

2:18 Take your hand. All right. And then you can see here the this green light. I'm trying to point to the green light. This green light down here lights up showing that it is in super cruise mode. So we're backing up. Stay alert. We're so alert right now. It's crazy. If Rich If Rich the Kid said how alert we are right now, he'd say, "Stay alert like a rebel." Maybe. Um, okay. Steering wheels moving along here nicely, guiding us through life. Car hasn't really moved here in a couple seconds.

3:05 Bug just ran into the screen. Do you see that? We just killed a bug in park mode. Backing up. Stay alert. All right, let's get out of the car. I have a feeling this is bad. Let's take a look at this. I mean, it parked itself, but this is a for sure door ding. You know, after you just went to war in IKEA in there, you come out and some idiot parked his traverse like this next to your car. Unacceptable. So, it did park itself. It did a very poor job of it. Also, as we were testing the system off camera, it parked in that spot with the cart return, but as we came around and started to film on camera, it for whatever reason didn't recognize that as a spot. So, we're finding some

3:51 inconsistencies and it also did a poor job here. Uh, so next, let's test the Model Y and see how it does in this spot. So now in the Model Y, uh we are going to turn into the same lane where we just parked the traverse. A key with self-p park in the Model Y is you have to be going 8 miles per hour or less. So if we go nine, it disappears. If we go back under eight, all the spots disappear. Now, here's what's really nice about this. All of these spots are popping up. I don't have to go and hit any button. I'll expand this. I don't have to go hit any button here. It shows me all the spots. I can pick this spot. I can pick this spot. So, let's see. Uh, let's do the same spot as the traverse. So, that is this spot. And then we're

4:37 going to go start. Okay. So, there's all of our visualization. And it's going to back us in right now. This also has the capability to pull in uh frontwards now, but you can't you can't choose if you want to go backwards or frontwards. I'm sure in the future you will, but right now you can't. So again, same parking spot. Wow, the Tesla's Okay, it fixed it. I was like, it's okay. And there's the completion of that. Again, that was the same spot. And you can just see the ease of use with

5:23 using self-p parking in the Tesla is really intuitive. You look at the screen, you find a spot, you click it, it parks. It can also do parallel parking. The Traverse can also do parallel parking. There's just no parallel spots around here. So, let's take a look at the quality of the park job. How about this? Get out of Do you ever do this? You're thinking about something else? Got your seat belt on? All right. Quality of park job. Yeah. That's an A. That's an A. That's a 95% A. I'll give it a 95. Do we give it a 100? Do you think 100? Yeah. See here? Look at this. Perfect clearance in the back. We'll give them a 99%. That was an excellent park job. The software is intuitive. It's very easy to engage. So, let's go check out the R1S's

6:08 self-p parking technology. All right. Now, for the self-p park, see what type of self-parking we have here. Yeah. So, we we searched around. The Rivian has no self-parking technology. Just for the fun of it, we did timed their Chevy. We timed the Tesla. Let's see how long it takes me to back into a spot in comparison to the best AI has to offer. So, yes, unfortunately, there's no self-parking technology in the Rivian R1S. I don't know if it's in their pipeline as a feature they will add. However, I will say Rivian absolutely has the capability to make this a feature with over-the-air updates. So,

6:54 it might come in the future. That's the nice thing about a uh softwaredefined vehicle is when they do it correctly like Rivian and Tesla do, you can send these updates out. Hopefully, they do that. So, let's see how the human does. Human, what are you doing down here in the realm? Shout out Timatoa. All right. All right. We'll just go for the timer. begin. Your boy goes crazy with it. I think I'm a little off to be honest with you. So, park. See how we did.

7:44 Tell you what, these robots have a long time to go before they're beating me. Tell you that. I will say I did pull in a little bit deep. Little bit deep on the spot, but overall, mission accomplished and mission accomplished quickly, so I can get on with my life. So, those are the self-driving features. I will say obviously Rivian last. It doesn't have any features. Uh Chevy second because it did it, but the technology is a little bit inconsistent as we saw. And Tesla wins this one just because the software is intuitive and it works and you can pick any spot you want. You can be more I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it. Sentient, right? Sentient means we're like one with robots or something. So, uh, now we are going to go on to the highway. This is the real technology that people love

8:29 to use on a daily basis. It makes long road trips easy. And for this, once again, we will start with the Traverse to show you what their Super Cruise does. All of this self-driving technology is cool because it reduces stress while driving. And today's video sponsor, Monarch Money, wants to do the same with your finances. Monarch is a private adfree personal finance platform that brings all of your accounts into one clean dashboard. It automatically tracks your spending and net worth and helps you stay financially aligned. Instead of just showing you where your money went, Monarch makes it easy to see the full financial picture, make smart adjustments, and progress towards your financial goals. For example, I like this feature right here where you can either save up for something or pay down some debt. So, to those of you who are looking to buy a Tesla or Rivian or

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10:03 are going to get on the road here. I think this has a one cylinder engine. To activate it, we are going to turn on uh the cruise control and then click the other button. Super cruise is engaged. You can see this little green. I really like that this is right in front of you here and it shows you that it's on. We're going to increase our speed using this left little switch here. I'm going to activate my turn signal for auto lane change because it's turn signal activated. Wow, looks like it's doing it. Nice. So, it's kind of drifting to the right here. I had this issue the other day where it kind of seems to not be aware of what's around it at times or the lane centering is slightly off. Kind of bobbles. Now, we're on the left side of the lane.

10:51 But overall, it's doing its job. So, it does have automatic lane changes. Hopefully, we get one here. So, we're going 66. We're going fairly slow with this truck in front of us. Let's see if the And it's falling to the left. So, yeah, it's doing my commands, but it's not doing its auto lane change. And then for whatever reason it doesn't turn the turn signal off even though we've already changed lanes. So I'll turn it off. The other thing we can do is a half press with the turn signal. So I'll just tap it. Right. Okay. And that that turns off the turn signal automatically. So you don't need to do the full press of the turn signal.

11:37 Just do the half press and it shuts off and still changes lanes for you. So that's good. Now we are heading into a section of highway that's fairly new. So, I'm curious to see how this handles it. Really like this display up here, giving you your map view. Then you can change that with some other views like the super cruise view. So, all right. Just drifting into that lane a little bit. Really enjoy this how the steering wheel looks. I think that's cool. Again, this section of highway we're currently in is newer. Seems to be handling it fine. The lane lines are all over the place, too. Hands-free. Unavailable. Take control. So, so you'll see right here, it'll pop up with a steering wheel when it's

12:23 available again. So, through this section of road that's newer, it failed. You had to take over. All right, now it popped up again. So, we'll hit the button and Super Cruise is available again. Um, so now there's one other scenario we need to check its availability. I misspoke earlier about the lane changes. Automatic lets either the signal handle it or it will automatically adapt to traffic as that description just showed. It just wasn't available while I was moving. So, automatic mode is either automatic or manual. It will do both. So, another interesting feature here is it shows you your seconds till impact for the car in front of you. So, you see 1 second reaction time if the car 0.9 if it hits the brakes, which is kind of a unique feature. I haven't really seen that on

13:09 any other vehicle. Now, the final boss in this test are B- roads. Just like this. You get off the interstate, you come onto one of these roads. And this can be useful when you have kids. You need to reach into the back seat and the car can pay attention. So, yeah. So, unfortunately, it does not work. These roads are not mapped for super cruise. So, let's jump into the R1S and see if it can redeem itself after not being able to park. There is one more feature that the traverse has with super cruise within auto park because you can see it says park and then it says exit. So if I click how would you like to exit? We'll exit out to the right. Car is driving itself. Put it in gear and it will pull us out of a

13:55 parking space. So again, we're going very slow, but it's doing it. Maybe you're uncomfortable doing that. And it's nice that it has this technology. And I think it's just a onetime fee. I don't think you have to pay. I think it's, you know, you pay for the feature and you always have it. Whereas Tesla now is a different story which we'll talk about shortly. Not sure what we're doing here. We're backing up. Okay. So, exit park now complete. So, we're going to start testing. This really isn't even a B-roll. I'm curious

14:40 to see if universal hands-free will work. It does. So, this is not a pointto-point system yet, meaning it's not going to follow navigation commands, but let's say you're here and your child screaming. The car is paying attention and driving itself. So, you can kind of go like this while it is doing what it's doing. So, it's actually impressive. If it's working on a smaller road like this, you can also adjust the aggressiveness of it. So, we're in mild and then you tap this, then it says medium. And then spicy has a little chili pepper on it. So, it's actually cool. It shows that. So, again, Riven has the right software engineers. They're heading in the right direction in terms and you can look at this. I'm interacting with it. So, it lets you interact to a certain point

15:27 as well, which is cool, too. So, that's cool. So Rivian takes a step up on Chevy there. Even though it can't park itself, it's self-driving technology. Can actually work on 3.5 million miles of road, which is in the US, that's basically all marked roads. It went from 100,000 to 3.5 million. So it's a massive update that Rivian just went through. So now we're going to go on to the highway and show you some of the features there and how you can interact with the vehicle. So to engage the universal hands-free, you just pull back on this twice. So now we are engaged. Universal handsfree is on. Uh if you tap the turn signal, it does automatic lane changes for you. It shows there's cars in that

16:12 lane. So those caution tape comes up. So there it goes. It's selected its spot and now it's changing lanes. Now when you adjust the driving modes, so I'm going to go to medium. I've noticed the lane changes. like sometimes it overshoots the lane. That lane change was fine that we just did. And then to adjust your speed, you just go up on the scroll wheel, up or down, and it will drive along here. So, we'll do another lane change. Did fine on the lane change. So, this is really good. I use this going to Vegas and back. And there's just there's truly are, you know, you'd go 20 miles and you really wouldn't touch the wheel and you get very comfortable. So, this system actually is a massive upgrade. Again, my car did not come with this feature. It

16:58 came as a software update. Here's the thing to know about this. It's going to be free until March of 2026 and then it's going to be a paid feature. Rivian has said this is going to like it's going to cost like a paint option. So, Rivian paint options are fairly expensive. That's between I think $600 and $3,000 is the most expensive paint option. So, the exterior of this is called Storm Blue. That's a $3,000 paint option. And that's what I'm thinking this universal hands-free is going to cost. So, it is cheaper than Super Cruise, but this also costs uh a lot more than like an entry-level Tahoe. This starts at $75,000. This specific model is a tri motor with the off-road package. It's $117,000. So, I think Rivian needs to on the

17:45 higher trim models just include it. But it, so let's say it's a $3,000 option in the future. It needs to have more features in this than this, but more features are coming. This is going to be a point-to-point system, meaning I will type in a destination, and it will drive me there and steer me there. And you can see they've already made nice strides towards that because it can drive itself on those roads, like those B-ros that aren't uh these major highways. So now again, we're coming up to the section of the newly mapped road. Let's see if this guy just dropped rocks everywhere. Let's see if this thing can go through this new section without any interventions. Very solid so far. This is right about where the Chevy failed. It's keeping centering nice.

18:38 Looks like we made it. So, yes, we made it out the other side of this newly formed highway here. Universal hands-free handled it perfectly. So, yeah, uh, Rivian's done a nice job updating this. Again, this is a overtheair update that I received. Did not come with this feature, and I really like to see that out of uh, EV companies. EVs are supposed to be cutting edge technology, and uh, this Rivian's doing a really nice job of flexing their brains, we'll say. Rivian's flexing their brains nicely uh showing what they can do with software. Also, if you're considering uh purchasing a Rivian, they have a referral program. You can use my code as you see it on the screen that gives you 3 months of free charging at Rivian Adventure Networks and you get credit to

19:24 the Rivian shop based on what trim of car you go with. So, you can get up to $500 toward a charger or ski racks or bike racks or whatever is in the Rivian gear shop or some merchandise. Um, you can get credit. So, if my videos have helped you in your purchasing process, um, or you just enjoy the channel, uh, consider using the code because there's really no reason you shouldn't considering uh, the benefits. If you take a road trip and are going to charge at a Rivian charger, that's free energy that you get. Also, my buddy Travis created a really cool tool. It's a lease calculator for Rivians. I will have that linked in the description as well. Shows you if it's a good lease deal or not based on current incentives. So, I think that that is really cool that he made that. Again, it will be linked below. All right. So, we're on again one of these uh non-highways here. We're in a

20:10 single click and we are now in full self-driving. So, the other thing the f the step further what Tesla is starting to integrate is AI voice commands. So, we click on this Grock button right here and say, "Can you navigate me to downtown Phoenix?" >> Sure. Navigating to downtown Phoenix about 10 miles away. ETA around 20 minutes depending on traffic. >> Start navigation. Navigation started to downtown Phoenix, 14 miles away, arriving around 12:30 p.m. Turnby turn directions are up on the screen. So, there you go. I didn't even have to touch anything, and it has

20:55 uh full navigation started up with Gro's AI. This is the visualization system. Now, in a Model Y and a Model 3, they cost a lot less. And in the Model S and X, you have that screen in front of you. And people will say like, "Oh, don't you miss having something here?" I will say yes, I would prefer, I think, to have something here, but it's not a big deal. I mean, your speed's right there and this screen is so big that it really isn't an issue over time. It's just when you get in from one of those other vehicles into a Model 3 or Y, even the Cybert truck, there's nothing here. So, it feels a little bland, but when you're driving it every day, you really don't care. This is also a pointto-point system. So, I just typed in a navigation command. It is going to take me to downtown Phoenix, wherever the heart of

21:41 downtown Phoenix is, and it will park the car. So, that is really cool. It also has driving profiles. The one downside currently, I think, to full self-driving is you can't set the speed limit you want to go. So, if I go into Mad Max mode, that's the most aggressive. There's a bunch of different settings. Mad Max, hurry, standard, chill, and sloth mode. So, those are the what is it? Five different drive modes. And you can also see at your destination, do you want to park or do you want to go curbside or do you want to go to a parking garage? It's really indepth in terms of the software and what they've developed so far. This also runs off of neural nets. A neural net is a nerd term for the car has a brain. So it makes decisions based on its surroundings and based on things that

22:28 it's been trained on in the past. That's what neural net is. Tesla developed their own AI chip. Rivian is doing the same thing. They're developing their own AI chip and you can also kind of coach it. You can hit the gas if you want to go if you're like it's good. If you can see it's good, you can coach the car to work with you. So, this is how all of that works. And it will also probably pick up these lights here maybe. Yeah. So, it still picks up those lights even though they aren't on. when you test them all back to back. In my opinion, the technology in this is remarkable, but we need to talk about what the software costs. Currently, as of late January 2026, this costs $8,000 to buy the license outright or it's $99 a month to pay for the subscription. But

23:14 Elon the other day just said, he tweeted this out, and I don't know if it will stand or not, that you will not be able to buy full self-driving as a license anymore. You have to pay for a subscription of $99 a month. Or will they change the subscription fee? I personally don't like this. I think that self-driving costs a little bit too much. I think $8,000 is too much. I think it needs to be $5,000 or less. I think the take rate will be more. And then when you compare it to like Super Cruise, for example, people will go, "Okay, I can get self-driving for five grand or I can get Super Cruise for four grand." and self-driving literally drives you there with all of these different profiles. I just don't know what the future holds for the cost of this. And then this car is a launch edition Model Y. It came with full

24:01 self-driving. So when I sell this vehicle, will it be worth more because there is a perpetual license attached to it? What's attached to the VIN or will it be wiped from the car and the new owner will have to pay a subscription fee? I don't know. Luckily, I will be grandfathered into this just being my perpetual license and I will have access to full self-driving. I just think it's kind of annoying that Tesla has headed into this. You have to pay to use this feature where I just think being able to buy the car, enjoy it, enjoy the software updates. I think it's kind of wrong of them to now change that. So, I hope they change that, but we'll see what happen. Te Tesla changes so much that uh I wouldn't be surprised. Now, earlier I talked about the speed profiles. You can't set your speed. So, we're going 80 right now. If I don't

24:47 want to go that fast, I put it into standard. So, the car slowed down. I'm actually surprised it didn't change lanes. I don't like this left lane camping, but you can work with the car. So, put my turn signal on. It will smoothly and immediately uh turn over, showing you your blind spot, showing you the full visualization. So, what have we learned during this video? All of these technologies cost something. Super Cruise is the $4,000. This is $8,000, but changing to a subscription service. Rivian is going to charge an expensive paint color, so around $3,000 for their universal hands-free. As far as what I showed you today, I think uh the Super Cruise is in last place. However, if you're just looking for a really good ADAS system on the highway, Super Cruise

25:33 is going to handle your needs on those big long boring road trips. I think it does an excellent job of that. And you can also do self-p parking, but it's kind of finicky. It takes a long time. You're going to end up probably never using it because it's going to be a drag. Rivian's universal hands-free is going to cost money. Maybe it will be a subscription in the future. It's tough to say, but they're just getting their feet wet in a point-to-point self-driving system, and I think Rivian in the market has themselves positioned nicely behind Tesla. Tesla currently is the leader. They've been working at this the longest and I'm curious to see if they're able to achieve it with the hardware for vehicles like this one and a vision system and without lidar. Rivian is heading towards LAR. They feel that is the best way to do it and I'm just curious to see what the end result

26:19 is. So, I think this software is a little overpriced. I think the capabilities are far beyond everyone else in the market, but I think the take rate isn't there because it's an expensive feature and I don't think everyone uh fully appreciates its full capabilities. While it's it is remarkable and it is vastly ahead of anything else um that I have tested, even the Chinese EVs that I just drove, they have a self-driving system, but this still seems to me uh to be the best. I don't care what car you buy. I'm just showing you the different features. I don't really have an agenda or anything. My agenda after this, I'm going to go eat Jimmy John's. Okay, that's my agenda. So, I hope this helps you in showing the current capabilities in 2026 of all of the self-driving technology. Uh, this actually has a lot more technology packed into it, which I

27:05 show in this video right here.