Hands free Drive Assist! Jul 30. Air first!

Thank you for acknowledging this and letting others know about the massive undertaking that is "implementing Sentry Mode". Yes, the Air has cameras, and effectively none of the other elements that are required to provide a customer with a fully-functional, park-and-forget, sensitivity-adjustable, remotely-viewable, BMS-compatible, geo-fenced, 24/7, 360° surveillance system.

As for Hands-Free Drive Assist, I only hope that the Air's ADAS has seen a massive improvement over the arguably dangerous Out of Spec showcase from six months ago. After seeing that video and reading several posts concerning "phantom braking", I haven't touched Drive Assist. Thankfully, I'd rather be the one driving the Air 99% of the time anyway.
Maybe you should try it vs just relying on reports and one YouTube video to never use it again even though you have it and can see the recent improvements for yourself. The last update to DD Pro for the Air provided significant stability.
 
I have the same concern/question as well! Hopefully my Ray Bans prove to be a surmountable challenge! For me the eye tracking/detection has been hit or miss with sunglasses on...which stands to reason because its not sunglasses tracking..but eye tracking....hopefully Lucid has already thought of this...
yeah I'm not so sure (/optimistic) .. I thought that there was a suggestion to go in to the car and create an additional face profile while wearing the glasses but I couldn't find where to do that. Do you know? Yeah I suspect it's actual eyeball / iris tracking .. not sure how that's possible but it does a good job when I'm not wearing glasses at knowing when I am really looking at the road and when I'm looking too long at the display. I'm thinking it's fully within that third party eye tracking system so maybe not tunable by lucid, not sure. So all in all, I'm not so sure it can work without seeing the eyeballs (as I had to turn off my distracted driving warning unfortunately, it was losing my eye too much with my gradient sunglasses).
 
Thank you for acknowledging this and letting others know about the massive undertaking that is "implementing Sentry Mode". Yes, the Air has cameras, and effectively none of the other elements that are required to provide a customer with a fully-functional, park-and-forget, sensitivity-adjustable, remotely-viewable, BMS-compatible, geo-fenced, 24/7, 360° surveillance system.

As for Hands-Free Drive Assist, I only hope that the Air's ADAS has seen a massive improvement over the arguably dangerous Out of Spec showcase from six months ago. After seeing that video and reading several posts concerning "phantom braking", I haven't touched Drive Assist. Thankfully, I'd rather be the one driving the Air 99% of the time anyway.
Agreed on Senty, disagree on hands free. As @HC_79 said, it's a mistake to write off the entire system and never revisit it. It being less than perfect does not mean it's unusable. Also, half of the comments in that video appear to show a lack of understanding of its operation (or don't take into account the circumstance they were in, such as a lane change to the left, during a left turn, with traffic oncoming in the next lane (not the target lane, but one lane beyond that). They then called the lane change "lazy" without taking any of those things into account.

Also, DDPro was upgraded significantly within the last 6 months, making the majority of the video irrelevant. You would really be best off trying it out...just keep your hands loosely on the wheel and be ready to take over if you don't like it.

I don't love how conservative it is with accelerating after a lane change (humans start accelerating midway through a lane change if they're going to overtake, whereas automated systems to not, they wait...WAY too long, to determine if the new lane is clear, THEN accelerating, slowly). That aside, I think it performs very, very well.
 
Is this going to fix the right-lane-phantom breaking introduced a couple updates ago? Yesterday again it slammed on the brakes a couple time, with dashboard alerts and everything.
 
What would really be awesome is if they rolled out the equivalent of "basic autopilot" to all Airs regardless of DD Pro or not.
 
What would really be awesome is if they rolled out the equivalent of "basic autopilot" to all Airs regardless of DD Pro or not.
I'm sure that'd be nice, but as someone who has spent quite a bit of time using Drive Asst on recent long trips, I'd say this IS pretty awesome. If you're not actively driving (ie, you are using Drive Assist), it's frustrating to have to keep hands on wheel.
 
great news!! thanks Lucid team!!
 
@borski do you have any takes on any of the above, or do you have any awareness of where they are in terms of developing that functionality?
I know it's in active dev for Gravity. No idea re: Air.
 
Exciting news! My only concern is that because the eye detection camera is located behind the steering wheel and is easily obstructed (as reflected by frequent "unable to detect your face" error messages for stop and go function), it would disengage suddenly and the car will rapidly decelerate d/t regen braking. Hope they will include some warning prior to this for driver to be able to take control over the car...
 
These sorts of updates are probably why they went through their recent cloud update. Portents of additional upgrades to come???
 
These sorts of updates are probably why they went through their recent cloud update. Portents of additional upgrades to come???
I'm not convinced there's a correlation between the cloud update and an additional software release?
 
I'm not convinced there's a correlation between the cloud update and an additional software release?
Probably not but it’s the internet and everyone loves to speculate. Could be related or could just be pure coincidence.
 
WOW!!!

Lucid is on a roll!!!! I love the focus and momentum on the software front!! Drive Assist lane change, Android Auto, processor hardware upgrade option, and now Handsfree Drive Assist! I love it!! Hopefully dashcam/sentry mode is right around the corner!

Keep up the great work!
As an AGT owner, also a former Tesla model S owner, I remember the day that autopilot first appeared. I was so excited.

As I was driving home from work I decided to engage it. Within 5 minutes the car almost hit a guard rail before I grabbed the wheel to correct it.

It gradually improved over the years. You always needed to pay attention.

I’m very interested in seeing how good Lucid is with the first iteration.
 
The media/news release basically summarizes the entire "feature" set:

The updates to DreamDrive Pro will allow customers to experience easy to use and intuitive hands-free driving and hands-free lane changes (with driver activation of the turn signal stalk) on compatible divided highways.
So basically this is what we have already - just substituting eyes for hands. If that is all there is, then it's nice but not worthy of much fanfare.

At one point they were to have Highway Pilot that would change lanes automatically to get on the correct highways. They were also going to have Street Pilot, where it would stay in the lane on streets and possibly follow traffic up to a certain speed. There was also talk about honoring traffic lights.
 
So basically this is what we have already - just substituting eyes for hands. If that is all there is, then it's nice but not worthy of much fanfare.
Given how many people are annoyed the the repeated nag to torque the steering wheel, I think that this is a big step forward.
 
Oh yeah. My one way commute is 75 minutes each way multiply that be 6 times. I have to torque the wheel every 15-20 seconds. Now, I would just sit peacefully. Don’t get me wrong, when I want to rip, I will take control and drive like I stole ir 🤪
 
The media/news release basically summarizes the entire "feature" set:


So basically this is what we have already - just substituting eyes for hands. If that is all there is, then it's nice but not worthy of much fanfare.

At one point they were to have Highway Pilot that would change lanes automatically to get on the correct highways. They were also going to have Street Pilot, where it would stay in the lane on streets and possibly follow traffic up to a certain speed. There was also talk about honoring traffic lights.
I also remember a remote parking feature kinda like summon
 
Probably not but it’s the internet and everyone loves to speculate. Could be related or could just be pure coincidence.
My thinking on this is due to the nature of Lucid's OTA rollouts. It looks to me like they carefully manage the rollouts of their OTAs. This could be due to issues with their ability to handle large, high bandwidth OTA installations to tens of thousands of customers imultaneously, which perhaps they addressed with their recent cloud update. You don't upgrade something that is already robust.
 
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