{"id":45307,"date":"2026-02-13T07:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/rivian-ceo-says-it-may-be-inconceivable-to-buy-a-car-that-cant-drive-itself-by-2030\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T07:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:11:16","slug":"rivian-ceo-says-it-may-be-inconceivable-to-buy-a-car-that-cant-drive-itself-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/rivian-ceo-says-it-may-be-inconceivable-to-buy-a-car-that-cant-drive-itself-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivian CEO says it may be &#8216;inconceivable&#8217; to buy a car that can&#8217;t drive itself by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/698e86aee1ba468a96abfe29?format=jpeg\" alt=\"RJ Scaringe speaking at a conference in Texas.\"\/><figcaption>Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said it will be &quot;inconceivable&quot; for a car to not be self-driving by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Amy E. Price\/SXSW Conference &amp; Festivals via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Rivian&#039;s CEO says self-driving capabilities will be as commonplace as airbags by 2030.<\/li>\n<li>RJ Scaringe said that it will be &quot;inconceivable&quot; for a car not to drive itself by the end of the decade.<\/li>\n<li>On Thursday, Rivian reported an 8% increase in annual sales for 2025 compared to 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said self-driving capabilities will be a &quot;must-have&quot; in a car in the &quot;very near future.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on a &quot;No Priors&quot; podcast interview, released on Thursday, Scaringe talked about how autonomous cars would become the norm by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think by 2030 it&#039;ll be inconceivable to buy a car and not expect it to drive itself,&quot; Scaringe said. &quot;Maybe that&#039;s sooner. We hope it&#039;s sooner, we&#039;re targeting a little sooner than that.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He added that today, it is hard to imagine buying a car without airbags or air conditioning, which &quot;at one moment in time were optional.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think in not too much time, a couple of years, it&#039;ll be hard to conceive of buying a car that can&#039;t drop you at the airport or pick up your kids from school,&quot; Scaringe said.<\/p>\n<p>Scaringe previously said that, beyond just being able to drive themselves, autonomous vehicles should progress to a point where they can run errands, such as getting items from the store or ordering spare car parts.<\/p>\n<p>Rivian is one of the handful of US-based automakers making inroads into the self-driving vehicle space, along with Tesla, Alphabet&#039;s Waymo, and Ford. They face strong competition in markets outside the US, where Chinese competitors like BYD, XPeng, and Baidu have gained market share.<\/p>\n<p>Rivian, based in Irvine, California, is expected to start delivering its R2 SUV later in the year. This model is its cheapest EV to date, priced at $45,000.<\/p>\n<p>Rivian released earnings on Thursday, reporting a full-year 2025 revenue of $5.39 billion, which was an 8% increase from 2024. The company said in the earnings report that it had delivered 42,247 vehicles to customers in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#039;s stock price dropped 5% after earnings but rose about 15% in after-hours trading. It&#039;s up about 12% in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said it will be &quot;inconceivable&quot; for a car to not be self-driving by 2030. Amy E. Price\/SXSW Conference &amp; Festivals via Getty Images Rivian&#039;s CEO says self-driving capabilities will be as commonplace as airbags by 2030. 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