Rivian R1T Channels Its Inner Cybertruck and Crushes Carrots in the Frunk Test

Tesla is a divisive brand, and that means it gets a lot of attention online every time it, for example, allows one of its vehicles to cut a carrot with its auto-closing trunk. But it’s not the only American electric vehicle maker that may be struggling to protect its owners’ fingers.

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Last week we saw a Cybertruck owner get his finger caught between the trunk lid and the vehicle’s frame, but today Rivian is in the hot seat. Its all-electric pickup, the R1T, may also be doing too little to protect users’ limbs, a recent round of carrot testing appears to show.

Read: Man puts his finger where it shouldn’t be to test Tesla’s Cybertruck update

In a short video posted to the r/Rivian subreddit, an owner shows the R1T’s trunk lid cutting a carrot. Perhaps the most disturbing thing about the video is that the truck does not cut cleanly through the vegetable, but stops when it initially encounters resistance, then continues to push downward until the tip of the carrot breaks off.

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The way the R1T’s trunk lid seems to be working hard to break up the vegetables seems to indicate that there is something wrong with the anti-pinch feature, and that owners are worried about their fingers and the fingers of their loved ones.

The test is a bit confusing as a previous video performing the same test showed that the R1T’s auto-closing frunk safely stopped closing when it encountered resistance. In fact, the Reddit user who posted this video said that the anti-pinch device worked on the first try, “but not on the second and third.” The video is from the third.”

Commentators suggest that this could mean that the R1T is designed to grip harder the more times it is asked to close its trunk. That could be because engineers assume that an owner who tries to close the lid multiple times wants it to close over a bag (or other item) that’s slightly too large to fit into the storage compartment to fit – although that remains a guess at this point.

We reached out to Rivian for more information about this video, but the automaker has not yet responded. In the meantime, it seems prudent to advise people to keep their fingers away from the closing doors (and lids) of all vehicles, regardless of which manufacturer made them.

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So… ehh… watch your fingers
byu/alexmaknet in Rivian