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I thought I found a workaround for the Lucid Air not waking up. I keep getting a message from the Lucid app telling me to keep the app running in the background (I believe it is).
Today, after the car wouldn't wake up after a week of reliable wake up I am motivated again to complain. Don't get me wrong...we are ex-Tesla and won't go back. We like our Air. We don't like the software. Also, I know it's early.
There was an article in the New York Times on December 15, 2024 that points out that today's car makers are facing technologies they have little experience with: "Others have struggled to build appealing electric vehicles and develop software, an increasingly important element of car design." Nailed it.
I get it. I am a veteran of the early days of real-time software design. Lots of bugs. Spaghetti code. Bad design "fixed" by "patches." Software was just not in the DNA of new systems we were designing to replace electro-mechanical systems.
It's notable that "pure" software companies such as Google, Meta and that ilk seem to have taken such enormous strides. Sure, they have their problems and users have their "wish-lists" but car makers seem to be far behind.
I hope that Lucid management is listening and is learning who their hires need to be.
Today, after the car wouldn't wake up after a week of reliable wake up I am motivated again to complain. Don't get me wrong...we are ex-Tesla and won't go back. We like our Air. We don't like the software. Also, I know it's early.
There was an article in the New York Times on December 15, 2024 that points out that today's car makers are facing technologies they have little experience with: "Others have struggled to build appealing electric vehicles and develop software, an increasingly important element of car design." Nailed it.
I get it. I am a veteran of the early days of real-time software design. Lots of bugs. Spaghetti code. Bad design "fixed" by "patches." Software was just not in the DNA of new systems we were designing to replace electro-mechanical systems.
It's notable that "pure" software companies such as Google, Meta and that ilk seem to have taken such enormous strides. Sure, they have their problems and users have their "wish-lists" but car makers seem to be far behind.
I hope that Lucid management is listening and is learning who their hires need to be.