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Yesterday around 10am I was going to pick up a friend from a car shop, I used my lucid navigation to follow the address, when I got there I went to to business next door because the address took me there. When I noticed I was at the wrong business, in my mind the goal was to park somewhere and make a u turn. Out of nowhere the car started to accelerate without control, i tried press to break petal nothing work, I let go of the petal nothing work and I decided to put the car on park it was accelerate left and right from want to street to another. It hit bushes and the car still didn't stopped. After I gave up knowing the car would have just takes my life. And suddenly it got back on the road and cross the road and hit the wall and stopped. It was like something you watched in movies. Thank God, it wasn't rushed hour, no one got hurt. And I got out with minors injuries. I have a video as well but unfortunately I can't post here. Please I need an advice how to go about this
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You'll want to record the exact date and time of the occurrence, to the best of your knowledge, so a Lucid tech can see what was going on in the log files.
 
I believe Lucid’s braking and steering systems are hydraulic, not fly by wire. The brake having no effect and the car steering left/right on its own doesn’t make sense, especially since you were able to park with precision in your garage. I hate to say it, but most instances of unintended acceleration is the driver accidentally pressing the accelerator instead of the brake.

Your best bet is to get the log files. Our own minds tend to play tricks on us, so forensic evidence is the best way to get to the bottom of what happened. The logs will show which pedal you pressed at the time of the accident.
 
What's in the video? Were you able to somehow record the incident, or is it just a walk-around of the damaged vehicle after the fact?

Really bizarre story.
 
That is really scary

Please raise the case with Lucid and share with them your VIN number and see what is their response

the issue must be determined and why it happened


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Did the driver's seat have a floor mat, and if so, which one?
 
100% of these unplanned acceleration events with Tesla's have been proven to be driver input error. It could well be that Air's are different.
 
Macgreiner said:
100% of these unplanned acceleration events with Tesla's have been proven to be driver input error. It could well be that Air's are different.
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It's certainly true that uncontrolled acceleration usually turns out to be driver error. Realistically, the owners of expensive cars like Lucid skew older, and I'm well aware that someone is going to need to take away my keys at some point. I had to do that to my dad. But there are also incidents of design flaws causing the problem. I'd have to go searching to find the citation, but there was a case of the OEM floor mats jamming the accelerator pedal and forcing a recall. It's certainly worth pursing with Lucid, and I'd also report the incident to NHTSA. My impression is that they take reports of uncontrolled acceleration extremely seriously.
 
TahoeMichael said:
It's certainly true that uncontrolled acceleration usually turns out to be driver error. Realistically, the owners of expensive cars like Lucid skew older, and I'm well aware that someone is going to need to take away my keys at some point. I had to do that to my dad. But there are also incidents of design flaws causing the problem. I'd have to go searching to find the citation, but there was a case of the OEM floor mats jamming the accelerator pedal and forcing a recall. It's certainly worth pursing with Lucid, and I'd also report the incident to NHTSA. My impression is that they take reports of uncontrolled acceleration extremely seriously.
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The floor mat case was Toyota's if I am not wrong. I think it was the Prius (had one at the time)
 
Saksak said:
I believe Lucid’s braking and steering systems are hydraulic, not fly by wire. The brake having no effect and the car steering left/right on its own doesn’t make sense, especially since you were able to park with precision in your garage. I hate to say it, but most instances of unintended acceleration is the driver accidentally pressing the accelerator instead of the brake.

Your best bet is to get the log files. Our own minds tend to play tricks on us, so forensic evidence is the best way to get to the bottom of what happened. The logs will show which pedal you pressed at the time of the accident.
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Yes I will have them take a look on exactly what happened.
 
Macgreiner said:
100% of these unplanned acceleration events with Tesla's have been proven to be driver input error. It could well be that Air's are different.
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Or not. When the Toyota floor mat hysteria happened, nearly nobody remembers that zero of the unintentional acceleration events had anything to do with floor mats, and that all of them were drivers hitting the gas.

But instead everyone “remembers” that Toyota floor mats cause unintended acceleration

I’m not blaming the poster, and it absolutely needs to be looked into. But I’m not jumping to conclusions either.

Nobody has ever been able to demonstrate an actual software/hardware failure that would cause unintended acceleration (of the kind that would not stop if you pushed the brake pedal to the floor); nor show that Toyota floor mats were particularly likely to jam the pedals.

The Toyota thing was (almost to a moral certainty) a media-induced hysteria, with most cases being traceable to the usual cause of unintended acceleration - foot on the wrong pedal. ref https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3153815/

For those who are unaware: all reasonably modern brake/throttle-by-wire cars have software that will disable fueling and/or acceleration when the brake pedal is being pressed (that's why you need a special line-lock mode to spin the rears in your Mustang).
 
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