Air Dream Deliveries?

[dawktah LucidGT]

Incoming text pops up on the right screen. It can be read to you, have to push the button. Haven't figures out how to reply, normally don't like texting while driving.

My 2014 Toyota Tundra I can reply with preset responses...

Not necessarily. I have an iPhone Pro Max in an Apple leather case. It charges, fine, but even with it inserted all the way down, it still protrudes above the sliding cove, so you can’t shut the cover all the way.

I wonder what phone they used as benchmark?

 

[hellolucid]

I wonder what phone they used as benchmark?

definitely not a Max/Plus sized phone.

 

[hydbob]

I have an A42 and my dad has a Note 9 amd they both fit fine and can close the cover

 

[Lucidisthebest]

Do you all have to stand in front of your Lucid for 15-20 seconds before it will recognize you and unlock the door?

 

[Alex]

Do you all have to stand in front of your Lucid for 15-20 seconds before it will recognize you and unlock the door?

The car only recognizes you when you're inside the car. I have't heard about it doing camera recognition outside, although that would be interesting. With a key or phone app in your pocket, the car will unlock the doors when you approach - that part seems to work pretty reliably for me. It recognizes me "instantly" when I sit down, but I only have my profile in there at the moment.

 

[Lucidisthebest]

The car only recognizes you when you're inside the car. I have't heard about it doing camera recognition outside, although that would be interesting. With a key or phone app in your pocket, the car will unlock the doors when you approach - that part seems to work pretty reliably for me. It recognizes me "instantly" when I sit down, but I only have my profile in there at the moment.

The car will unlock as soon as you approach? First thing in the morning, when the car is "asleep", it takes 15-20 seconds to boot up i guess and unlock

 

[hydbob]

I've noticed that after being "asleep" for instance, overnight, the proximity unlock is not active reliably. No problem really for me, pushing the handle to unlock is still just as responsive so for the first drive of the day, I push the handle to unlock the and then during the day the proximity unlock works fine.

 

[Alex]

The car will unlock as soon as you approach? First thing in the morning, when the car is "asleep", it takes 15-20 seconds to boot up i guess and unlock

Yes, I walked to my house garage door. When I open the door and walk a few steps to the car, which is about 5 feet from the door, the car unlocks immediately. Most of the time I have both the key and phone in my pocket. I just tried it with only the phone/key and it unlocked the same way. I actually stood about 4 feet from the car.

The only time I have had a problem is when I am hanging around the car and it decides to lock the car. Rather than leaving and coming back, I find I can press the driver's door handle. It mostly depresses in and stays there. A second press causes it to unlock. Possible if I held it in for a while it would also unlock.

 

[Lucidisthebest]

Is the company telling anyone when DreamDrive will be ready? Can't wait for those features.

 

[Alex]

Is the company telling anyone when DreamDrive will be ready? Can't wait for those features.

I was told (before my car arrived), that there would be an update that would enable most of the DreamDrive features a few weeks after I would take delivery (30-Dec). During delivery they told me that there would be another update next month – they didn't specify for what, but was in response to my complaining about lack of ADAS.

 

[mac26mac]

I got a notification today on my app that there was a software update available. I clicked on it and it opened the app, but didn't tell me what was new. My car is parked for a few months (winter in the Upper Midwest), so I have no idea what changed, if anything.

 

[Buddyroe]

We had a 2015 Model S P90D and now have a Model S Plaid. Throughout the time we owned the 2015, we had recurrent screen freezes and blackouts. The car frequently sent collision warning signals from the front left of the car even when driving on open roads with no nearby traffic or obstacles. Every couple of weeks we'd start the car only to get a message that driver assistance and accident avoid features were not available. Sometimes the problem would disappear at the next restart; sometimes it would persist for a couple of day before mysteriously disappearing. The microphone for voice command failed to work as often as it worked. And the voice recognition was endlessly creative in interpreting what I was asking it to do.

And these were the inadvertent problems. There were also the features that Tesla deliberately removed as time passed. Although I had paid $3,000 for the Autopilot option in 2015, which included lane change assistance and operation on properly marked two-lane roads and allowed for choosing a speed more than 5 miles above the speed limit (to avoid getting rear-ended on Florida's public dragways), those features were later removed when Tesla migrated them into FSD. By the time I traded the car this summer, all I had remaining from the $3,000 I had spent was lane keep assist and adaptive cruise control, features included in the price of my 2018 Honda Odyssey that cost 1/3 as much.

The Plaid has had its own share of software quirks, and it was our experience with the earlier Tesla that taught us that paying $10,000 for FSD (that is actually something entirely different from true autonomous driving) was a fool's game, as we were completely at the mercy of what parts of it Tesla might choose to take away at a future date unless we ponied up more money.

All those problems and you bought another Tesla?

 

[blueice89]

Did the Air dreams that are delayed hear a better date yet?

 

[Bbamrah]

I am receiving mine tomorrow or Thursday.

 

[blueice89]

That is great, and I assume you had one of those fit/finish part delays @Bbamrah?

 

[Bbamrah]

I did

 

[blueice89]

Doesn't seem like much delay, and really happy for you to receive your new car

 

[Bbamrah]

I did receive number 163 today. Very excited

 

[blueice89]

I did receive number 163 today. Very excited

Congrats !! Post a picture !

 

[blueice89]

Just thinking of math, what % of Dream Owners do you think exist on this forum. Say 520 cars, would we say 5% of dream owners live here? and 95% are somewhere else.
IE, if 5% of the owners was say 5 people that didn't get fit and finish parts, does that imply 100 people didn't get fit and finish parts. Just trying to run napkin math.