CarPlay is here! - Megathread

[steveairgt]

To go a step further, the time on the top left of the screen says 10:52 when the carplay image says 12:31.
Someones joke.....

 

[thecodingart]

It looks photoshopped. Look closely at the corners of the carplay border. The corners are rounded then you see black triangles as it is cut and pasted.

To me, its not real. Someone is joking.....

You’re right, this is definitely photoshopped

 

[rbbarry]

The person who posted this on Reddit just added a comment:

I’m a Touring reservation holder and was invited to Lucid’s test drive event in Newark earlier last month. After the drive, we stopped by the open pre-production car in the 1st floor of the office to check out the UI for longer - and saw there was an option on the pilot panel for CarPlay! No idea if this is reproducible on customer vehicles. Plugged in my phone to test it out, and saw this. Touchscreen was functional and interactive. Better than nothing, but as-is still awkward looking. Hoping Lucid’s in-car experience team finds a way to integrate the CarPlay UI with their screens’ shape better.

 

[hydbob]

The person who posted this on Reddit just added a comment:

Kind of seems like a huge oversight for Lucid to allow a "leak" like that? They have normally been too damn good at keeping info contained until they want to announce it officiallly.

 

[zkhan2]

Article from Teslarati: Lucid Air spotted testing Apple CarPlay for update next quarter

 

[zkhan2]

Article from Teslarati: Lucid Air spotted testing Apple CarPlay for update next quarter

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After looking at the details, time discrepancy, and if you blow it up in PS you will see that they forgot to crop the edges, where the black corners are still there. The perspective is off as well. Totally photoshopped in my opinion.

 

[thecodingart]

After looking at the details, time discrepancy, and if you blow it up in PS you will see that they forgot to crop the edges, where the black corners are still there. The perspective is off as well. Totally photoshopped in my opinion.

This. Video or it didn’t happen . Also, others should be able to verify this.

 

[HC_79]

Even if it is photoshopped it's not really going to get much better than that when it is implemented. The top screen isn't really designed well to fit the CarPlay box so unless Lucid is going to put it on the bottom screen then it's going to look like what is in the image. If its placed on the bottom screen then can assume it will look like Polestar \ Mach E implementations. Either way, it's going to be an ugly implementation because of how restrictive CarPlay is when it comes to screens. iOS 16 CarPlay may look better but that's not coming anytime soon so for now, it's just going to be a box on a screen.

 

[rbbarry]

Even if it is photoshopped it's not really going to get much better than that when it is implemented. The top screen isn't really designed well to fit the CarPlay box so unless Lucid is going to put it on the bottom screen then it's going to look like what is in the image. If its placed on the bottom screen then can assume it will look like Polestar \ Mach E implementations. Either way, it's going to be an ugly implementation because of how restrictive CarPlay is when it comes to screens. iOS 16 CarPlay may look better but that's not coming anytime soon so for now, it's just going to be a box on a screen.

I hope it is not on the bottom screen, even if it would look better. I don't want to look down to use Waze or Google Maps...

 

[joec]

I hope it is not on the bottom screen, even if it would look better. I don't want to look down to use Waze or Google Maps...

To me, the encouraging thing here, if this is accurate at all (I agree it looks Photoshopped) is that Lucid is smart enough to know it has to live on the upper screen, not the Pilot Panel.

Until we get the new CarPlay implementation (likely in 2024), this, or something very much like this, will have to do. And if that gets me to higher-quality music streaming from my phone, I'll be fine with it.

 

[Bobby]

If they slide it all the way to the left, and put something else at the right it would look fine.

 

[joec]

If they slide it all the way to the left, and put something else at the right it would look fine.

I've seen BMW do something similar with their wider screens. They throw a clock or compass over on the right. Even just aligning it left and leaving the remaining space blank would be better than floating it in the not-quite center like that, I agree.

 

[HC_79]

To me, the encouraging thing here, if this is accurate at all (I agree it looks Photoshopped) is that Lucid is smart enough to know it has to live on the upper screen, not the Pilot Panel.

Until we get the new CarPlay implementation (likely in 2024), this, or something very much like this, will have to do. And if that gets me to higher-quality music streaming from my phone, I'll be fine with it.

Maybe they should've added Apple Music App as native instead of Tidal.

 

[Bunnylebowski]

The opening is fine. Both our gate and garage homelinks pop up when in range.I’m ok with just bushing one thing on the touchscreen. It is the closing I have an issues with. I can’t get to the home link button withoug turning off the back up cameras, they pulling it up, closing the garage and then turning on the cameras agan. It is convoluted.

No disrespect, but everything can be hacked. It's just a question of how motivated someone is. Actually on a more serious note, the reason why I even bothered to make the garage door opener "smart" was to avoid the possibility of driving a good distance away from home and then wonder whether I closed the garage door. Being able to link ADT to Alexa was just a bonus that came for free.

On the security front, I cannot open the garage door using Alexa unless I provide a four digit pin ("Alexa, open garage door using code one-two-three-four"). No pin needed for closing.

What kind of opener do you have, Chamberlain? It can be added to Apple HomeKit via Homebridge. I did this and it works awesome, I use Siri or my watch to open and close, works way better than Alexa did and is more secure. Let me know if you need info on how to set this up as it’s kind of complex and you’ll need to get a homebridge box like HOOBS or RaspberryPi, but it works!

 

[thecodingart]

To me, the encouraging thing here, if this is accurate at all (I agree it looks Photoshopped) is that Lucid is smart enough to know it has to live on the upper screen, not the Pilot Panel.

Until we get the new CarPlay implementation (likely in 2024), this, or something very much like this, will have to do. And if that gets me to higher-quality music streaming from my phone, I'll be fine with it.

Eh, the bottom screen can be the primary CarPlay interface. Many of the things like navigation directions and music controls/info can be reflected outside of CarPlay with the vehicle reading data from CarPlay and showing the info on native OEM software screens. That functionality already happens today on Mercedes’ EQS.

Implementing it this way removes the “old square” CarPlay display issues while still displaying navigation/call/music from CarPlay on Lucid’s un square screen.

 

[rbbarry]

LOL https://www.autoevolution.com/news/...rplay-running-internet-goes-crazy-193390.html

 

[joec]

Eh, the bottom screen can be the primary CarPlay interface. Many of the things like navigation directions and music controls/info can be reflected outside of CarPlay with the vehicle reading data from CarPlay and showing the info on native OEM software screens. That functionality already happens today on Mercedes’ EQS.

Implementing it this way removes the “old square” CarPlay display issues while still displaying navigation/call/music from CarPlay on Lucid’s un square screen.

True. But given next gen CarPlay is coming so soon, I would not be surprised if they did the simplest implementation possible for now, and then shifted focus to an eventual next gen implementation.

They have a lot on their plate right now. I’m thinking they may just want to tick the CarPlay and Android Auto boxes, since they are such high requests. But I’d love to be wrong and see them do more, even if it were just for a year or so.

Would it not be weird for that top right screen, which is touch sensitive, to suddenly become a “display only” area? Or is it possible with current CarPlay to translate touches on a secondary screen back to the phone?

 

[HC_79]

LOL https://www.autoevolution.com/news/...rplay-running-internet-goes-crazy-193390.html

Look what you started!!! lol

 

[rbbarry]

Look what you started!!! lol

lol - I didn't actually start it, the Reddit guy did but I did bring attention to it.

 

[thecodingart]

True. But given next gen CarPlay is coming so soon, I would not be surprised if they did the simplest implementation possible for now, and then shifted focus to an eventual next gen implementation.

They have a lot on their plate right now. I’m thinking they may just want to tick the CarPlay and Android Auto boxes, since they are such high requests. But I’d love to be wrong and see them do more, even if it were just for a year or so.

Would it not be weird for that top right screen, which is touch sensitive, to suddenly become a “display only” area? Or is it possible with current CarPlay to translate touches on a secondary screen back to the phone?

The top screen would just take some of the metadata for directions and music and display them in similar ways that say… Bluetooth does with music. It definitely wouldn’t make the area non touch based. It would just have limited data and controls that could be displayed using Lucid’s current UI. Directions would likely just be turn by turn information and you can’t perform a search in the top screen. Music would have playback controls.