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Air 2.8.4 software update

Yeah, I didn't notice anything different. IE, even with the key fob it took entirely took long to unlock my car as I walked up to it from behind
 
No opportunity to notice any changes yet, but OTA updates now seems to be rolling out at warp speed. Over the course of almost two years, I have never received an update anywhere near as quickly as the last two, and this one set the record! I'll wager that the infrastructure changes that Lucid made are really paying off on this front. Nice!
 
Happy for the update, but still frustrated with Lucid not giving more information on what is being fixed or what if any added features are being added. Over three years of ownership with my GT and my excitement with the announcement of a new update gets tempered by the lack of detail. Ok, I feel better now.
 
Completely agree. I bought the car (which I love). Lucid is making modifications to my car. I have a right to know what they did and what has changed in the car.
 
I’m just hoping they fixed a few bugs. If so it was worth pressing a button on my app to update.
 
Same here… update took less than the 45 minutes stated, drove the car for about 30 minutes and did not notice anything different. But the Pilot Screen showed the Timothee Chalamet video on a loop and links to view other Lucid products. I was able to close that and display the standard Pilot Screen info.
 
Has my profile image always been on the top screen next to the Lucid AI logo? This is the first time it’s shown up in my car.
 
nashvillelucid said:
Has my profile image always been on the top screen next to the Lucid AI logo? This is the first time it’s shown up in my car.
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It was showing up on the top left of that screen for me with 2.8.0. Also on the top left of the pilot panel Settings screen.
 
groundhog said:
Happy for the update, but still frustrated with Lucid not giving more information on what is being fixed or what if any added features are being added. Over three years of ownership with my GT and my excitement with the announcement of a new update gets tempered by the lack of detail. Ok, I feel better now.
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Not every update has user-visible features. Some are quality of life updates that fix bugs under-the-hood, so to speak. There isn’t really a benefit to telling your customers “fixed memory leak in specific process” in release notes.

It’d be nice if they still did, but more people would misunderstand than find benefit in those kinds of updates.
 
I got the update last night and installed it this morning. I'm not noticing anything different, but robustness can be hard to identify.
The Android app now lets you schedule a time to install the update. I don't know if that was always there. I saw it for the first time last night.
 
Respectfully, that is exactly what I want to know. When the guy comes to fix your air conditioner he may say he fixed the framitz and the hemulator, and you may not understand, but they write it out and the ticket and usually tell you what they did. You are free to not understand it, or ignore it, but at least they provided you with the information you should have and are entitled to. I know this is an old argument, but as a project manager for a couple of multi-million dollar software projects I always believed the customer should know what we are doing and changing.
 
groundhog said:
Happy for the update, but still frustrated with Lucid not giving more information on what is being fixed or what if any added features are being added. Over three years of ownership with my GT and my excitement with the announcement of a new update gets tempered by the lack of detail. Ok, I feel better now.
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its probably stuff like "fixed potential memory leak on door LED module SOC controller on models produced from Apr-June 2023" or something totally uninteresting like that.
 
azguy said:
Respectfully, that is exactly what I want to know. When the guy comes to fix your air conditioner he may say he fixed the framitz and the hemulator, and you may not understand, but they write it out and the ticket and usually tell you what they did. You are free to not understand it, or ignore it, but at least they provided you with the information you should have and are entitled to. I know this is an old argument, but as a project manager for a couple of multi-million dollar software projects I always believed the customer should know what we are doing and changing.
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I actually agree with you, in principle.

Having run a software company that sold to the enterprise, however, I am extremely familiar with the fact that saying “fixed foo in bar” also leads to customers going “WAIT, FOO WAS BROKEN, I WANT A PARTIAL REFUND” which of course contractually they cannot have, or worse, “FOO WAS BROKEN, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO TRUST IT NOW”

Sound ridiculous? I agree. But it was a solid quarter of responses we got. So we, too, stopped making our release notes our commit logs and only putting the notes in there a customer actually needs to know about or care about.

To be clear: in service, they are extremely specific and detailed in their notes, just like your AC guy.

But if GE comes out with new software for your AC, I can pretty much guarantee the release notes will say something like “improvements and fixes. And a new feature!”
 
borski said:
I actually agree with you, in principle.

Having run a software company that sold to the enterprise, however, I am extremely familiar with the fact that saying “fixed foo in bar” also leads to customers going “WAIT, FOO WAS BROKEN, I WANT A PARTIAL REFUND” which of course contractually they cannot have, or worse, “FOO WAS BROKEN, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO TRUST IT NOW”

Sound ridiculous? I agree. But it was a solid quarter of responses we got. So we, too, stopped making our release notes our commit logs and only putting the notes in there a customer actually needs to know about or care about.

To be clear: in service, they are extremely specific and detailed in their notes, just like your AC guy.

But if GE comes out with new software for your AC, I can pretty much guarantee the release notes will say something like “improvements and fixes. And a new feature!”
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You make some good points. I've been on both ends of the IT world. as a customer and provider. I'd still rather know what has been done to my software. If it's been improved, tell me how, even if the improvements are more notional or invisible. I always treated my customers that way, and they seemed to appreciate it.
 
I think the details are nice when Lucid addresses specific user requested (albeit minor) fixes. For example, I among others who navigate parking garages would like to see the automatic 360 degree view not turn off at only 6 MPH. As an issue, it rests somewhat lower than whale poop in the scheme of things, since hitting the restart button turns the cameras back on until the old 16 MPH, but it would be one of those little niceities... and probably an easy fix. I don't see a downside to pointing out stuff like that. I get that they could take three screens trying to explain some of the more nebulous improvements that they implement, such as tweaking performance and efficiency, and people like me would be still baffled if they did. (BTW, the 360 degree camera change is not in 2.4.4. Just fine by me.)
 
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