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- Mar 7, 2020
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- Naples, FL
- Cars
- Air DE-P, 2 Gravity DEs
- Air DE Number
- 395
- Gravity DE Number
- 067
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- Referral Code
- 033M4EXG
Make no mistake, the Gravity UX/UI is a significant step-up from the Air's quite decent set up in terms of screen layout and usability. However, there are three areas in which I find the Air's UI considerably better.
1. Font Size -- Some of the fonts in the Air are larger and therefore more easily read. For instance, I can read the temperature and time in our Air easily from either front seat. In our Gravities, I have to squint, or lean forward, or even sometimes put on my reading glasses. There is plenty of screen real estate even within the black background insets to enlarge the Gravity fonts (including for music displays). Even better would be an option to adjust font size. Many Lucid owners are "of an age" where reading glasses are just an inescapable fact of life.
2. Homelink -- The Homelink operation buttons pop up reliably when exiting or approaching our garage in the Air. And they operate with an easy tap. On our Gravities, the buttons often fail to pop up upon leaving the garage (although they always pop up upon approach). And it can be devilishly hard to get them to respond to the same tap that works in the Air. Sometimes it takes several tries to get the buttons to activate the garage doors.
3. Suspension Height Adjustment -- I prefer to drive in the low suspension setting in almost all circumstances, and I often switch driving modes depending on road and traffic conditions. It is extremely frustrating to have to punch a button to put the suspension at low height every time I engage "Smooth" or "Swift". It's great to be able switch drive modes with the steering wheel button on the Gravity, but I've almost hit a few mailboxes taking my eyes off the road to get to the Home Screen and then find and punch the "Low" button for the suspension. Even though the Air suspension height is not adjustable, I now get a cheap thrill when I switch drive modes without also having to adjust suspension height.
A Lucid chassis engineer told me they debated whether to make low the default suspension height for Swift mode but finally decided to make it standard height.
Why can't Lucid allow users to select the default suspension height for each drive mode?
P.S. The good news here is that Lucid has finally gotten the Gravity software to function well enough for the car to be a dependable daily driver that I can now move on to such complaints as those above.
1. Font Size -- Some of the fonts in the Air are larger and therefore more easily read. For instance, I can read the temperature and time in our Air easily from either front seat. In our Gravities, I have to squint, or lean forward, or even sometimes put on my reading glasses. There is plenty of screen real estate even within the black background insets to enlarge the Gravity fonts (including for music displays). Even better would be an option to adjust font size. Many Lucid owners are "of an age" where reading glasses are just an inescapable fact of life.
2. Homelink -- The Homelink operation buttons pop up reliably when exiting or approaching our garage in the Air. And they operate with an easy tap. On our Gravities, the buttons often fail to pop up upon leaving the garage (although they always pop up upon approach). And it can be devilishly hard to get them to respond to the same tap that works in the Air. Sometimes it takes several tries to get the buttons to activate the garage doors.
3. Suspension Height Adjustment -- I prefer to drive in the low suspension setting in almost all circumstances, and I often switch driving modes depending on road and traffic conditions. It is extremely frustrating to have to punch a button to put the suspension at low height every time I engage "Smooth" or "Swift". It's great to be able switch drive modes with the steering wheel button on the Gravity, but I've almost hit a few mailboxes taking my eyes off the road to get to the Home Screen and then find and punch the "Low" button for the suspension. Even though the Air suspension height is not adjustable, I now get a cheap thrill when I switch drive modes without also having to adjust suspension height.
A Lucid chassis engineer told me they debated whether to make low the default suspension height for Swift mode but finally decided to make it standard height.
Why can't Lucid allow users to select the default suspension height for each drive mode?
P.S. The good news here is that Lucid has finally gotten the Gravity software to function well enough for the car to be a dependable daily driver that I can now move on to such complaints as those above.
agree on this