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This just in: Hands free coming soon. Rawlinson not only said so in today's earnings call, he made a not so subtle slight at Musk and anybody else who preannounces far in advance and doesn't deliver. He said that companies should not announce things unless they are coming soon.

I checked mine from Aug 22, and it was included. And therein lies the problem. If we had to check the paperwork, it means that the change in sound wasn't obvious enough to show a substantial improvement. Perhaps it will be much better when I get the update, but I can't tell how the system would...

I found that on some curves, there's either still a need to take over or the car shows me a red line for lane departure warning even though it was driving. Some reports about the update that was just released indicate that Lucid addressed some of that, and that perhaps the car is too cautious. I...

Unfortunately, the ratings systems fall far short of what they should be doing to be helpful. The idea behind NHTSA's system was supposed to be to differentiate vehicles. If it now says that they are essentially all good, that doesn't say much. They need to have testing standards that go far...

The refresh did a few things, although it could have done more. Some basic things such as an A pillar or mirror blind spot indicator are still missing. Camera views are in the wrong place for when making turns, and unlike in the Lucid, where the camera view is a viable substitute for a mirror...

It's not clear to me how that works. I understand that they control the release cycle, and control when a given release comes out. I also understand that they work with manufacturers with respect to integration. Clearly, a manufacturer can't send out a new release of Android Auto that Google...

The easiest way to implement a hands on requirement is to have a message pop up telling users that they should keep their hands on the wheel at all times. There are plenty of things that drivers are required to do that cars don't check for. I'm pretty sure that the car does not check for hands...

The could implement the hands free simply by not checking to see if there's any torque. They are already checking people's attentiveness. Most cars on the road have nothing that checks to see whether or not anybody is holding the wheel, even though it's most important in cars with no ADAS at...

A lot of people were under the mistaken impression that Tesla was profitable only because of carbon credits, when it was never really the case. If you ignore the fungibility of money, you could single out any source of profit bigger than the profit margin and make that claim, but the reality is...

Yes, the original Bush era EV tax credit had no income limits. The Democratic version came with income limits, provisions for material sources, and proposals were for differing amounts based on union worker status of people who made the cars. They didn't help Lucid or Tesla in particular...

Call me conservative, but I'm of the belief that people should get jobs because they have qualifications and relevant experience rather than because they are friends with somebody.

The problem is that making something standard should be based on something other than simply what you like. I've had plenty of cars with the windshield stalk on the left side, and given that EVs don't need a shift lever mounted in the center console, and given that the right side has been a...

There are people who love to float those arguments but what they overlook is that the notion that people buy EVs solely for the environment is way off base. There's nothing wrong with caring about the environment, but most people who buy EVs simply like the cars better. Show them the car, talk...

Lucid can have that clause in a warranty, but they'd have a hard time making a case in court. There's lots of precedent allowing that sort of thing to be enforced if it's what led to a failure. A company can deny replacing an engine if a person never changed the oil and the engine was damaged as...

He did say that, but context matters. He said that EV credits, along with oil industry subsidies, are a bad thing and he'd like to see all of them go away. He'd gladly see EV tax credits go away if oil industry subsidies did, and the result was that people had to pay for gasoline what people do...

I for one was glad. The Model S and X were out first. People who bought the Model 3 didn't deserve anything that went to 11. The sound system is loud enough and the climate control works well enough, but they didn't even get numbers. It's just a bar that goes from off to maximum. So they can't...

The Tesla Model S and X have volumes and fan levels that go to 11. The Model 3 and Y do not. Those poor folks!

I'm mostly with you on that but would add Hey Google to add back a lot of what Alexa did that wasn't car related, such as opening and closing the garage door. The other big advantage, not specifically related to Lucid, is that if you ever rent a car with AA, there won't be a learning curve...

Tesla's system is a hybrid. It uses Google maps for the on-screen display for the center screen, but not for the binnacle. The cars store a separate map database that's used for routing, which works even without cell service, but the center map won't display in that case. The route overlays the...

I haven't, but I know that some cars have a windshield wiper control stalk on the left, and others have them on the right. Signal stalks are going to be on the left side in rhd countries and it's a harder mistake to make, but I'll admit to cleaning my windscreen in Australia and New Zealand...