Recent content by TahoeMichael

My perspective is that Lucid employees seem to have their heart in the right place, but they also seem to lack any functioning methodical process to make caring for customers more than just an individual effort by single employees. Falling through the cracks thus seems to be occurring...

I'd much rather have an Air Sapphire. It's a practical car that can actually be driven down the road, while still delivering more performance than I'll probably evem learn to properly handle. And I predict it'll turn out to be much more affordable to purchase.

Unfortunately, being willing to acknowledge problems is not something that corporate America is good at, certainly not the auto industry. It's not a Lucid specific problem at all. I suppose it's somewhat understandable. The huge development costs of a vehicle mean that they're very reluctant...

I agree. Starting manufacturing a vehicle is hard enough when you have the established industrial base for such things. The Saudi's aren't just trying to get Lucid to build vehicles in the country, they're trying to kickstart the full industrial base, including a big fraction of the supplier...

No. It's small potatoes if you want to inflict economic damage on the Saudis.

Well, one should understand the various motivations that investment banks have. Those motivations sometimes (but not always) motivate them to distribute highly biased analysis. It got so egregious during the dot-com bubble that the feds enacted some pretty strong reforms. Some of which have...

Stupid question, but are you washing the vehicle with the frunk open? Or is the stop coming out when washing the car with the frunk closed? I guess it never occurred to me that one would wash the car with the frunk open, but I guess that's actually totally fine to do with the Gravity?

I suspect that the majority of us would be perfectly happy if the mods just started deleting Tesla posts that aren't in a Tesla thread. But I do respect the amount of work you all already do, and it's understandable if you collectively don't want to go down that road. But at least consider...

To me, I'm not that interested in autonomous driving tech until it's so good that it doesn't need supervision. And I think that autonomous driving that works 99.99% of the time is worse than a system that works 99% of the time. The 99% system fails frequently enough that the driver is likely...

Initially I was very enthusiastic about the HUD, and the promise of the AR features that would come. But now that it's clear that the HUD suffers from a double whammy of hardware design flaws and a software team struggling to fulfill the promises Lucid has made, I'm ordering a car without it...

That seems understandable (but extremely annoying) for a random repair shop. But when a mechanic has received Lucid training and their stamp of approval? It rises to the infuriating.

This don't know details of Lucid's design, but I wouldn't expect that the 12V system is normally powered from the 12V battery. Rather, I'd expect there to be a DC-to-DC converter powered by the high voltage battery, and you'd only be drawing power from the 12V battery in less common situations...

I'm pretty sure PAAK will communicate with the car the same way the fob does, so there's not much reason to believe that PAAK will be more reliable than a fob. It avoids bugs specific to the software and hardware in the fob itself, but also opens up the chance of bugs unique to the PAAK...

I think it's fair to critique auto companies for bulky fobs. The fob for my Toyota Highland is extremely compact, includes an NFC backup, and I see little reason why manufacturers make fobs any bigger. I appreciate a compact fob, and was a bit mystified when some here started talking about...

No, there really doesn't need to be a key card backup. For my other two vehicles (Toyota Highlander and Ram 2500), the fob has a built-in backup if the battery dies, and neither vehicle ships with a key card backup. And that's been 100% fine with me, and has never caused me a problem. It...