Rivian CEO says supervised point-to-point self-driving will arrive this year, and he's comparing it directly to Tesla's FSD

TL;DRRivian CEO RJ Scaringe says supervised point-to-point self-driving arrives this year on Gen 2 and R2 vehicles, with eyes-off driving in 2027.

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said the company will ship supervised point-to-point self-driving on all of its second-generation vehicles and the R2 later this year, describing the capability as “very similar to Tesla’s FSD.” Speaking at the Masters of Scale event in Anaheim on Thursday, Scaringe laid out a three-stage autonomy roadmap: supervised point-to-point driving in 2026, eyes-off unsupervised driving in 2027, and a commercial robotaxi service with Uber beginning in 2028.

The announcement represents a significant jump from Rivian’s current driver-assistance system. Universal Hands-Free, which rolled out in late 2025, handles steering and speed on roughly 3.5 million miles of marked roads in the US and Canada. It does not navigate turns, traffic lights, roundabouts, or parking lots.

Point-to-point driving would extend the system’s capabilities to handle complete journeys from origin to destination, similar to what Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Supervised already attempts. The leap from highway lane-keeping to full urban navigation is the hardest problem in autonomous driving, and no company has solved it without significant constraints.