2.8.0 Software Update

[ups238]

Got the update! Installing now. Add another tally to 2025 model (Touring) getting the update.

 

[RMSko]

Question: In order to use hands free, will I need to activate the “eyes on the road” monitor (i.e., will I need to toggle that to on)?

 

[suchluke]

Weird. Not back for me yet.

After vehicle showing offline I did receive the 2.8.0 update. Maybe this is an indication that uodate is downloading to the car?
I also had the same message about batter dangerously low first time opening the app after an update even though SOC was 81%.

 

[Halodde]

I've been following this thread and others about 2.8.0 and wondering if I should be excited about it. But, unless I have missed something, I don't feel like there's anything earth-shattering in this OTA. Please correct me if you feel like there is.

Although, I might be trying to convince myself that there's nothing earth-shattering because I just got the update notification but don't have time to update the car before I have to leave for a 300+ mile day lol

Thoughts? (on either subject )

 

[dahan55]

Finally! The extra money I put down to have Dream Drive Pro on my Lucid seems worth it. I do a lot of highway driving to/from work everyday and this update is what I wanted when I paid for it almost 2 ½ years ago. Let the car drive me on (most) highways; I’ll drive it everywhere else. Thank you Lucid. I’m good now.

 

[pyle112]

Curious if there's any noticeable enhancements to the drive assist. I haven't tried it yet since I've been traveling, but it's it any more than removing the hands on the wheel nag? I'm sure it is with such a big update but curious nonetheless if anyone can provide a comparison.

 

[Miami_Lucid_Man]

After vehicle showing offline I did receive the 2.8.0 update. Maybe this is an indication that uodate is downloading to the car?
I also had the same message about batter dangerously low first time opening the app after an update even though SOC was 81%.

So after the logo reset last night before bed I woke up to the update finally pushed to the car. Seems like a randomly and coincidentally timed “freeze” on the car side of things that the reset cured.

 

[Bdr100]

What a shame. After years of over charging and under delivering on Dream Drive Pro, Lucid finally delivers on DDP potential and yet it is totally unavailable on any in stock cars and not available to order until fall. On the Gravity side, there are rumors that DDP is in very short supply there also. This could really help boost Lucid sales if they just had DDP parts available.

 

[bproberson]

Are you connected to WiFi?

Yes I was. The update ended up taking 3.5 hours.

 

[Haggy]

What a shame. After years of over charging and under delivering on Dream Drive Pro, Lucid finally delivers on DDP potential and yet it is totally unavailable on any in stock cars and not available to order until fall. On the Gravity side, there are rumors that DDP is in very short supply there also. This could really help boost Lucid sales if they just had DDP parts available.

They didn't understand deliver because they didn't make specific promises for specific features when they sold it. Rawlinson did mention at the earnings call that the car would have hands free, and I got it within five days of the announced beginning of rollout, which is relatively early. Feedback has been positive.

Perhaps the biggest difference I see between Lucid and Tesla in this regard is that with Lucid, early feedback tends to say that things work well, perhaps better than expected. With Tesla, they tend to work well enough for people to say "yes, the car has this new feature," but it takes months or a couple years of very small refinements over many updates to gradually work its way up to that level. The exception is FSD which took many years to get to the quality that Lucid gives for a release of new features.

Lucid could have released this a few months ago, Tesla style, and the feedback might have been that hands free sort of works, as long as you grab the wheel...

As for price, it's currently $6750, which when adjusted for inflation is quite a bit less than I paid Tesla for the lowest paid level of Autopilot in 2017. It doesn't have hands free nor did it promise it. It does have features that Lucid doesn't, that I'd like to see, but Lucid never promised. Overall, the price doesn't seem out of line to me.

 

[Bunnylebowski]

Can we retitle this thread “members come
here to take a crap on everyone’s enthusiasm?”

 

[Bdr100]

They didn't understand deliver because they didn't make specific promises for specific features when they sold it. Rawlinson did mention at the earnings call that the car would have hands free, and I got it within five days of the announced beginning of rollout, which is relatively early. Feedback has been positive.

Perhaps the biggest difference I see between Lucid and Tesla in this regard is that with Lucid, early feedback tends to say that things work well, perhaps better than expected. With Tesla, they tend to work well enough for people to say "yes, the car has this new feature," but it takes months or a couple years of very small refinements over many updates to gradually work its way up to that level. The exception is FSD which took many years to get to the quality that Lucid gives for a release of new features.

Lucid could have released this a few months ago, Tesla style, and the feedback might have been that hands free sort of works, as long as you grab the wheel...

As for price, it's currently $6750, which when adjusted for inflation is quite a bit less than I paid Tesla for the lowest paid level of Autopilot in 2017. It doesn't have hands free nor did it promise it. It does have features that Lucid doesn't, that I'd like to see, but Lucid never promised. Overall, the price doesn't seem out of line to me.

Tell that to the guy who did a 3 year lease on a 2022 Air with DDP. For his $6,000+ investment, by the time his lease was up, his ADAS feature set was equivalent to what I got on my 2021 Mercedes for $2500 (oh, and those features worked from the beginning in 2021). I am not comparing Lucid to Tesla (the champion of over promise/under delivering), I am comparing Lucid to the rest of the luxury market.
My main reason for posting was to say that it is a shame that when Lucid finally delivers (and reviews seem very promising on how well it is working), Lucid is not positioned to take advantage of this development.

 

[Sandvinsd]

Okay, what happened!

Lucid knocked the ball out of the park. No one will believe this is their first iteration of Handsfree; it’s that perfect. The car was planted and very confident than me. I drove with zero issues.

Distance: 35 miles on I-4 (between Orlando and Tampa, with less traffic).

I’ll go with what’s missing first: there’s no automatic lane change unless you trigger the signal. Some zones are not yet marked for handsfree (a complex intersection with a sharp curve and multiple lanes joining). Maybe Lucid is being curious and unmarking them.

Positives: I’m very confident in the marked zones.

Following lines are way better than previous versions, even at sharp curves.

I found this surprising: it detected construction and mentioned it, asking me to take control. It disabled hands-free, but Drive Assist is still active.
It monitors you. I closed my eyes, and it caught me.
I closed one eye, and it caught me.
I closed one eye half, and you know what happened.

If they call it the first version, I couldn’t wait for the coming versions. I need them!

Thank you very much to the Lucid team for their efforts. They put it into this and made it almost perfect. I’ll keep posting my findings back home if anything changes.

I found the hands free lacking. It kept going from hands free to not hands free every few miles. So essentially it was not hands free….

 

[Lucken]

I've been following this thread and others about 2.8.0 and wondering if I should be excited about it. But, unless I have missed something, I don't feel like there's anything earth-shattering in this OTA. Please correct me if you feel like there is.

Although, I might be trying to convince myself that there's nothing earth-shattering because I just got the update notification but don't have time to update the car before I have to leave for a 300+ mile day lol

Thoughts? (on either subject )

If you value hands-free driving, as most who ordered this feature do, it’s a great update. If you don’t then there’s not much to get excited about.

 

[sri]

I found the hands free lacking. It kept going from hands free to not hands free every few miles. So essentially it was not hands free….

I think it all depends on the how roads are marked.
On my way back home, i have handsfree all the way for 35miles, no disengagement at all.

 

[Bdr100]

Can we retitle this thread “members come
here to take a crap on everyone’s enthusiasm?”

Oh, I am very enthusiastic about this development. I have a Gravity on order and had been debating including DDP. Based on this and the other improvements Lucid has made to it over last year, I am firmly in the want it category and willing to wait until it become available.

 

[Haggy]

I found the hands free lacking. It kept going from hands free to not hands free every few miles. So essentially it was not hands free….

It's a given that hands free will work only in areas where it's supported. There have been a number of reports of it working for many miles, but I expect that there will be some locations less amenable that don't comply with the requirements for it to be available.

Thanks for the feedback, and it would be helpful to know what triggered it to go to "not hands free" when it happened. Since it's not self driving, we all expect it not to work in some areas. Now it's a matter of finding out which ones.