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Honestly don't know how else to describe this letter-U distortion besides "jank". Its very weird, check out the photos.

I'm backing into a parking spot, everything is normal when all of a sudden the image "janks" and the car slams on the breaks when I'm barely halfway into the parking spot (photos are after I pulled all the way in). I assume it thought I was going to hit something, though I don't know why the emergency braking would be using the camera instead of other proximity sensors. And that's actually pretty troubling if the image is going to randomly "jank"!

All I did was re-enter the parking cam and then the image was back to normal (second photo). Anybody seen this or have any idea what happened?
 

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Celeras said:
Honestly don't know how else to describe this letter-U distortion besides "jank". Its very weird, check out the photos.

I'm backing into a parking spot, everything is normal when all of a sudden the image "janks" and the car slams on the breaks when I'm barely halfway into the parking spot (photos are after I pulled all the way in). I assume it thought I was going to hit something, though I don't know why the emergency braking would be using the camera instead of other proximity sensors. And that's actually pretty troubling if the image is going to randomly "jank"!

All I did was re-enter the parking cam and then the image was back to normal (second photo). Anybody seen this or have any idea what happened?
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When that happens, does it say “rear parking protection engaged”?

The difference between the views looks like the wide angle lens vs telephoto lens (the icon on the right of the top screen).

If it senses a potential obstruction, it will switch views from the wide angle (which is default) to the telephoto (closer view) which might look janky if you’re not expecting it.

The rear parking protection would also be what slams on the brakes.

https://lucidmotors.com/media/document/Lucid-Air-Owners-Manual_en-US.pdf (page 138)
 
borski said:
When that happens, does it say “rear parking protection engaged”?

The difference between the views looks like the wide angle lens vs telephoto lens (the icon on the right of the top screen).

If it senses a potential obstruction, it will switch views from the wide angle (which is default) to the telephoto (closer view) which might look janky if you’re not expecting it.

The rear parking protection would also be what slams on the brakes.

https://lucidmotors.com/media/document/Lucid-Air-Owners-Manual_en-US.pdf (page 138)
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Thanks for the info. Interesting Wide Angle lens they're using to do that to the picture lol. Is there something in the manual that says switching views was the result of it sensing something as opposed to vice versa? Why they would ever show the user that view after an incident (false alarm no less) is a little puzzling, I thought it was a bug.

Almost wanted to call it fisheye before I realized that's a bend the other way.
 
borski said:
The difference between the views looks like the wide angle lens vs telephoto lens (the icon on the right of the top screen).

If it senses a potential obstruction, it will switch views from the wide angle (which is default) to the telephoto (closer view) which might look janky if you’re not expecting it.
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I think you have that backwards. The standard lens is the default when reversing, and it switches to the wide angle lens if cross-traffic (or what it believes to be such) is detected. I've had this happen to me on a few occasions while reversing into a parking space. Car will sense a perpendicular vehicle that's in an adjacent lot (i.e.: separated by a small median) and abruptly notify of the no-factor traffic and switch to the wide angle lens. Goes without saying that the wide angle view is terrible for parking and best serves its purpose for backing out of a space. This can really mess up the parking flow if you've got people waiting for you to complete the maneuver. Thankfully not a frequent issue.
 
Ooh, yes that makes more sense. It could have been cross traffic from behind the space and across the median. I did not clock that at all at the time obviously, but seems likely and you can see where it would be coming from in the picture. Much better explanation for why it would swap to that terrible view.
 
Chrome said:
I think you have that backwards. The standard lens is the default when reversing, and it switches to the wide angle lens if cross-traffic (or what it believes to be such) is detected. I've had this happen to me on a few occasions while reversing into a parking space. Car will sense a perpendicular vehicle that's in an adjacent lot (i.e.: separated by a small median) and abruptly notify of the no-factor traffic and switch to the wide angle lens. Goes without saying that the wide angle view is terrible for parking and best serves its purpose for backing out of a space. This can really mess up the parking flow if you've got people waiting for you to complete the maneuver. Thankfully not a frequent issue.
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That’s not the same thing. You’re talking about cross-traffic protection; I’m talking about rear parking protection. Two separate features, with two separate toggles in the settings.

But it could have been either. :)
 
Oh, I see. I swapped the two views in terms of which is default. Good point!

(But also, separate options :p)
 
borski said:
That’s not the same thing. You’re talking about cross-traffic protection; I’m talking about rear parking protection.
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Oh yeah, I get that. I just mentioned cross-traffic because I think that's what happened to OP, unless the automatic braking doesn't function for rear cross-traffic? I have the braking features disabled, so I honestly wouldn't know in that regard. The photos suggest to me that there's traffic in motion "behind" the parking space, and that's what triggered his camera to swap.
 
The cross traffic and other sensors that slam on the brakes are very sensitive. One time it actually almost caused someone to rear end me. They do need to tweak that a bit in future updates.
 
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