Recent content by debsen63

Your fob battery is shot. This happened to me last weekend on a Lucid loaner car. They had to remotely open the door and I had to key in the PIN. It has happened to me before in my own car. We change the battery every two months or so. I love the car. But this fob—and the overall idea of the...

Thank you. I live in two residences. Every week, I drive two hundred miles to go back and forth. One is in the country, not around fancy city, and it has a charger. The other is in Brooklyn, a city of many million people, and I have to depend on chargers. The problem I saw was not related to...

Hello, hmp10 ... thank you for responding. Thanks for your comments And others as well. I do want to draw attention to one thing: if we want EVs to succeed, and Lucid to succeed, we need to be very clear-eyed about the problems because there are so many. In the use case that I wrote about, the...

I want to describe the sheer hell of owning an EV in general, and a Lucid in particular. We drive back and forth between Brooklyn and Rhinebeck, NY, a distance of about 100 Miles. Last night, the temp was around 19 degrees. The car had been parked curbside overnight with about 170Miles. When I...

pretty straightforward. you can tap on the daytime running lights icon and it dims it. alternately, to turn it all off, you can simply lock the car, while you are sitting inside, with your key. that will shut everything down. the car will go dark, all systems will shut down. (great for watching...

no comments! we all know what we are talking about!

Or it could also be ... a famous steakhouse is selling shite steaks at caviar prices. And, since it is well established that some people derive a lot of value from experiencing shite steaks at caviar prices for the bragging rights, it works out for all, right? In NYC, we have a situation with a...

"crips and clear but not especially noteworthy" ... that about sums it up. I agree with the feeling of "not much output" ... in the sense that a symphony or a good rock song doesn't fill up the car. The sound at low volumes –a tell tale sign of a good system– is not satisfying. I wonder if it's...

Thanks! But I am a fanatic when it comes to platform integration. I am on only one: Apple Music (or FM). So far, this has served me very well until I got the Lucid. I think that's the clearest test of a car's stereo relative to others. Everything is the same except the car.

Thank you for your suggestion. You may be correct about Tidal. But I am not about to chase the tech to go to a particular service to get the most out of it. I was very satisfied with my base-line stereos in the previous cars mentioned tuned to their default settings etc.; I can't say the same...

you should be thankful that you didn't shell out even more on the pro system! I did. there is nothing "pro" about the pro, except the money. I mainly listen to podcasts, rock n' roll and classical music from my wired iPhone and FM radio. the pro offers no distinctive improvement over my last...

Yes, the wallpaper of Apple CarPlay is configurable, and I have it set to black, for much the same reason; it just makes it more fluid that way. You can set the wallpaper from AppleCarPlay/Settings. I have been thinking about this for a while now. I don't see myself using anything other than...

Sometimes, manufacturers or all stripes, kinds and sectors offer innovations that aim to improve nothing. These key cards or retracting door handles are two examples. Why? is the big question. "drag coefficent" is often the bright-eyed answer. Or "why not?" is the smug answer. I wonder what...

An update on the malfunctioning Highway Assist: I got an OTA update on Sunday morning. Per the release notes, it addresses "stability issues". At any rate, the Highway Assist functionality issue is now fixed.

An update: Lucid customer service suggested a reboot. Which I did. A day later, I got an OTA update from Lucid. Later that afternoon, we drove through some rain and the wipers worked adequately. I do not know what caused the issue in the first place, and if it was corrected by either of the...