Recent content by idiot900

There is only so much draw that the batteries can support, so it's unlikely to be a motor limitation. It's still 798 kW total for Dream vs 618 kW for GT.

Hard to tell from the article how this was "AI" as opposed to just manually varying parameters in their FEA simulation. However recently in the sciences there have been more applications of machine learning to make better guesses about choosing model parameters from very large parameter spaces...

This may be a silly question but did you get the crossbars as well?

Makes sense particularly for Aston Martin as a small manufacturer with no designs on the mass luxury market as Lucid has. Their brand identity is presumably not at all dependent on their infotainment UX.

Would be interesting but it would require Lucid to effectively relinquish a lot of its infotainment branding inside the car, and control of its core user experience to Apple and its rules. Yes, it's user-selectable, but still. Maybe yet a good idea but I can see why they may choose not to do this.

Are they two separate Android instances, I wonder? Or are the left (dash) screens some kind of more robust RTOS, since I would imagine there are a lot of hard real time deadlines the dash software must meet that an Android system can't...

I have proximity unlock on. I just push a door handle in to lock the car and have no issue with the car auto unlocking or turning the wipers on while I hand wash. I don't need to change any settings.

If less energy is supplied to the front motors that would presumably account for reduced motor whine…although I’m very much speculating.

Every DA improvement gets us closer to hands free operation. I’ll gladly accept a 0.2 mi/kWh free upgrade! Those few extra miles can make all the difference when down to the wire.

Yes - I know I don't know what I'm doing and there is no chance I could drive a Lucid at the limit on a track without catastrophe :) Agree on the slow car fast philosophy. Sadly (happily?) I don't have physical space for a second car let alone a trailer...

I did not end up going though I'd hoped to do a PCA RTR event. Turns out NJMP does not allow EVs. Closest track that does is Pocono supposedly and I could not make any Pocono track day work with my schedule at that time. I do see there's an EA location in East Stroudsburg so maybe it's time to...

Anecdotally my mobile key has worked substantially better with 2.6.11 but maybe that isn't because of any intrinsic improvement in the firmwares of either car or phone...maybe there is just less interference lately in the 2.4 GHz spectrum where I park?

Only used EA a few times in recent months but it’s actually worked perfectly fine each time. Although each time I had to wait in line for the better part of an hour. Wish that the free charging were limited to say 90% state of charge so people wouldn’t sit there slowly charging to 100%.

Yeah, CR a bit unfair to the current model Air IMHO. But 3.5 hours to a service center is understandably a lot.

Yes, the updates are cumulative, even though not every car necessarily gets every version number.