Not capacitive and not user friendly.
Test drove the R2. It'll probably be my next vehicle. Went in knowing the rear glass button is not capacitive and it was still hard. It needed to be press "just" right in order for it to work. The biggest not-so-user friendly discovery about this button I made is that --- if you stop pressing it as the glass is being closed then you've lost your 1st turn to close it.
In other words, to close the glass it requires you to press AND continue to press the button until the glass is all the way up. This wouldn't be 'that' much of an issue if said button was user friendly. But having to find "just" the right spot to press, having to press it fairly hard, and having to continue to press it until the glass closes are almost 3-strikes you're out!
If you decide to let your finger take a break from pushing the button as the glass is going up, then you will have to roll the glass all the way down so that it can again begin to roll all the way up. I found this very rare. Maybe fixable w/ an OTA - not sure.
The other surprise is - I test drove the R1S immediately after and those halo wheels that everyone at Rivian loves so much on the R2...well I was like, "these on the R1 scroll up/down and press in so the only difference is the halos push left/right and towards you". That halo wheel functionality not found on the R1S required precision. Pushing lefty/right w/out turning the wheel up/down was very tricky - same with pushing the halo in/out. I almost prefer the R1S and even on my Tesla the steering wheel wheels scroll up/down, and can be pressed in/out or left/right so vs a Tesla no functionality is gained in the much praised halos and my Tesla they take a lot less room and are actually easier to use with just my thumb on its thumb print area.
Posted Jul 11, 2026, 8:57 PM UTC · edited