Rivian owners can now watch their EVs remotely

Rivian on Wednesday began rolling out a major software update to owners of its trucks and SUVs, allowing them to remotely check the onboard cameras on their EVs. The feature is called Gear Guard Live Cam, and is mainly intended to let you scope out alarm notifications from the Rivian mobile app for iPhone and Android. You can also tune into video at any time, however — say if you’re camping, and want to make sure that bear has finally wandered away. It’s loosely similar to the Sentry Mode available to Tesla owners.