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Is there anyone who likes the GRAVITY GRAND TOURING H.U.D..

I need to go drive a Gravity with it. I heard it was blurry which would be a non-starter for me.
 
MGRMLN said:
I need to go drive a Gravity with it. I heard it was blurry which would be a non-starter for me.
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I leave mine off. It's a disgrace when compared to the likes of BMW, Mercedes, GM, and other brands at the same price point or cheaper. Blurry, too high on the windshield even on its lowest setting, provides virtually no information, terrible reflections on the windshield including the blue blob at certain angles, and the frame is also of a material or finish that reflects off the windshield. If they didn't tie the enhanced ambient lighting to getting the HUD, no Gravity buyer should ever invest in this debacle.
 
If you are tall, the HUD is completely invisible. I have to scrunch way down in a comically unnatural position to see it.

Never had this issue with any other HUD.
 
CJGravity said:
If they didn't tie the enhanced ambient lighting to getting the HUD, no Gravity buyer should ever invest in this debacle.
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I’ve discovered something rather interesting about Lucid’s enhanced ambient lighting package through my numerous service visits.

As we know, Lucid bundles enhanced ambient lighting with the HUD. I’ve long suspected this was a deliberate packaging decision to encourage customers to purchase the HUD, because I imagine far fewer people would pay for it if the enhanced lighting were offered separately. For those unfamiliar, enhanced ambient lighting adds two things:
  1. Additional lighting along the upper door cards and dashboard.
  2. Dynamic dashboard lighting that responds to charging and Sanctuary modes.
Lucid has stated that enhanced ambient lighting requires the upgraded wiring harness associated with the HUD. But here’s where things get interesting. During one of my many service visits, my driver side passenger door card was replaced because of an issue with my pop-up screen. Sometime afterward, I noticed that the upper portion of the replacement door card was illuminated.

I don’t have the HUD. Yet there it was, additional ambient lighting functioning perfectly in a vehicle supposedly incapable of supporting it without the upgraded wiring harness. This tells us that at least the upper door-card lighting can function independently of the HUD package. It doesn’t necessarily mean the dynamic dashboard lighting can, but those are two entirely different features. And frankly, the dynamic dashboard lighting seems rather pointless to me anyway. Lucid deactivates the strip while driving, so one of the most visually appealing ambient lighting elements isn’t even available during normal use. What’s the point of having it if you can primarily enjoy it while parked?

I have no issue with Lucid charging extra for a HUD or more sophisticated dynamic lighting. But why should customers have to purchase the HUD simply to get additional illumination on the upper door cards when I’ve personally experienced that lighting working without it? We’re talking about a six-figure luxury vehicle in 2026. Mercedes was offering more extensive ambient lighting over a decade ago.

I love the engineering behind the Gravity, but some of Lucid’s product and packaging decisions are genuinely baffling. Just like developing the mold for the key fob in the center console tray yet the end goal is to offer PAAK? Thus will end up as wasted space. Give customers the option to have proper ambient lighting without forcing them into an unrelated feature package.
 
FirstLucidFL said:
I’ve long suspected this was a deliberate packaging decision to encourage customers to purchase the HUD, because I imagine far fewer people would pay for it if the enhanced lighting were offered separately.
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Packaging decisions are almost always designed to maximize profit by:
  1. Reducing permutations which simplify build costs.
  2. Grouping items that are sufficient to encourage people to pick an entire package and spend more than they might have versus à la carte.
 
FirstLucidFL said:
I’ve discovered something rather interesting about Lucid’s enhanced ambient lighting package through my numerous service visits.

As we know, Lucid bundles enhanced ambient lighting with the HUD. I’ve long suspected this was a deliberate packaging decision to encourage customers to purchase the HUD, because I imagine far fewer people would pay for it if the enhanced lighting were offered separately. For those unfamiliar, enhanced ambient lighting adds two things:
  1. Additional lighting along the upper door cards and dashboard.
  2. Dynamic dashboard lighting that responds to charging and Sanctuary modes.
Lucid has stated that enhanced ambient lighting requires the upgraded wiring harness associated with the HUD. But here’s where things get interesting. During one of my many service visits, my driver side passenger door card was replaced because of an issue with my pop-up screen. Sometime afterward, I noticed that the upper portion of the replacement door card was illuminated.

I don’t have the HUD. Yet there it was, additional ambient lighting functioning perfectly in a vehicle supposedly incapable of supporting it without the upgraded wiring harness. This tells us that at least the upper door-card lighting can function independently of the HUD package. It doesn’t necessarily mean the dynamic dashboard lighting can, but those are two entirely different features. And frankly, the dynamic dashboard lighting seems rather pointless to me anyway. Lucid deactivates the strip while driving, so one of the most visually appealing ambient lighting elements isn’t even available during normal use. What’s the point of having it if you can primarily enjoy it while parked?

I have no issue with Lucid charging extra for a HUD or more sophisticated dynamic lighting. But why should customers have to purchase the HUD simply to get additional illumination on the upper door cards when I’ve personally experienced that lighting working without it? We’re talking about a six-figure luxury vehicle in 2026. Mercedes was offering more extensive ambient lighting over a decade ago.

I love the engineering behind the Gravity, but some of Lucid’s product and packaging decisions are genuinely baffling. Just like developing the mold for the key fob in the center console tray yet the end goal is to offer PAAK? Thus will end up as wasted space. Give customers the option to have proper ambient lighting without forcing them into an unrelated feature package.
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Between the HUD and the Dynamic Lighting, the whole package is a bit of a disaster. It’s nowhere near what Lucid promoted in the early days. You get very little lighting effect in normal driving and half the videos they showed making use of the dynamic lighting never even landed on the car. Not one new Sanctuary video has landed on the car since deliveries started and yet they showed a number of them in the marketing videos.
 
CJGravity said:
Blurry, too high on the windshield even on its lowest setting, provides virtually no information, terrible reflections on the windshield including the blue blob at certain angles, and the frame is also of a material or finish that reflects off the windshield.
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Beyond turn, by turn, arrows, I forgot to mention distance to a given turn is now displayed. At times, it's uncanny as it drops within 50 feet, making 4-6 way intersections/rotaries crisper to navigate. This is my first HUD, so I understand those who've had better but that's no cause for inaccuracy or being unaware of what it offers.
 
HC_79 said:
Between the HUD and the Dynamic Lighting, the whole package is a bit of a disaster. It’s nowhere near what Lucid promoted in the early days. You get very little lighting effect in normal driving and half the videos they showed making use of the dynamic lighting never even landed on the car. Not one new Sanctuary video has landed on the car since deliveries started and yet they showed a number of them in the marketing videos.
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If you are the driver, you only see the light when parked and in the passenger side of the dashboard. I don't get it... why have it then? There should be a light on the driver side (the last MX does it well) and the option to keep them on while driving.
 
I am a big supporter of Lucid and the Gravity, but I wish my Gravity Dream did not come with the HUD. I find the reflection issues to be an outright safety issue when it blocks the view of the road. So, my HUD has been covered with felt (which blocks the reflections) and turned off since day one. I wish they could develop a film to block the reflections, but right now it is a hazard not an enhancement. Other than that I love the car now that the software has gotten to the acceptable stage.
 
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