Well, what are those features precisely? And when are they coming? After how many years of depreciation and improvement by competitors will DDP really utilize that equipment?
My Lucid is a fantastic car with only a few minor annoyances, the worst of which ought to be fixed soon. But I don’t think being underwhelmed with DDP and the promise of improvement at an unspecified in the future is an unfair position...I’d call it more of an optimism mismatch
You have to remember that Lucid's first cars hit the market just over a year ago. After more than a decade on the market, there are many Tesla owners who paid thousands for FSD, owned their cars for several years, and sold them without ever having had full self driving. (Even at $15,000 today, you still don't get what it perpetually claims is coming.)
Lucid entered the market with primitive user software, as they were doing everything from the ground up and did not have earlier models in the lineup to draw from. If we had to wait for fully-fledged user software, all current owners would still be waiting to get our cars.
Let's compare Lucid to the company that claims to be "a software company", that's been at it over ten years, and that many people view as at the apogee of automotive software -- Tesla -- and compare it with what Lucid has already enabled since their cars first came out:
Satellite maps (with more functionality than Tesla's)
USB reading of music sticks (something our 2021 Tesla cannot do)
Apple CarPlay (not in Teslas)
Bird's-eye-view display (not in Teslas)
Distance indicators upon approaching objects (not in Tesla)
Front camera display during parking (not in Tesla)
Cross-traffic emergency braking (Tesla only displays a warning)
I have a feeling that we're going to see Level 2+ ADAS in our Lucids well before anyone sees full self driving in their Teslas.