No one knows, because they haven’t started charging yet. But Tesla charges $10 per month, I think?
Adaptive cruise control works better for me because I can keep my distance from semis on the right and you have to have your hands on the wheels with highway assist so might as well move them. I’ll miss the surround camera, but not enough to spend another $2,500.had the same thought - since i'm pretty sure not everyone that got the email today bought on the same day! anyway - since we can upgrade at any time, i'm opting to go a bit without the ddp - i actually love driving the vehicle, so not sure if i'll miss the ha... except on the long highway drives. we'll see - probably just get much worse kw/mi with me in control!
We’ll find out in 7 days
To the Lucid company employees on this forum, The surround view is now table stakes with a lot of less premier brands on their vehicles. Not a class move for a class vehicle. Is this desperation for revenue or executives hired from other companies who do not know any better.
Let’s be careful not to identify a singular feature and generalize to the car and the entire company. Please review our guidelines about this very narrative. Thank you very much.
My counter argument is go build cars with Porsche, Mercedes, BMW, Ferrari, etc and see what features are included in the base price of anything. Less premier brands have to offer features to add value to their offerings, luxury brands don't. Whether or not Lucid has established itself as a luxury brand is a separate discussion.
Makes sense and agreed. Point is be very clear upfront with complete terms and conditions shared. If that level of due diligence was not followed, introduce that on a certain date and move on when the system is mature. Time for Lucid could be better spent focusing on other things, this is from a shareholder angle. Would like to see them focus on big things and fast, instead of spending bandwidth on small items.
Ferrari charges $4,000+ for CarPlay. https://www.motorbiscuit.com/most-expensive-apple-carplay-new-cars/
Hmm. Seems pretty petty for a $120k vehicle to have to pay $10 extra per month to be able to use the tech that was pitched to sell the vehicle (especially since it is installed - now they won't let you use it?). So CarPlay, Spotify, Alexa, none of that would work without connectivity? Which is pretty much the whole tech panel?
Also a shareholder (it has been a really rough year) and I believe that seeing more Lucids on the road with happy owners is part of the future success. I get stopped on the street, in parking lots, all over and asked about my car. It is not uncommon to spend 10-15 minutes opening the car up, showing the storage, talking range, demoing tech. Happy to do it. $120 a year (if that is what it is for connectivity) is obviously noise, but isn't it sort of short sighted to not have just rolled that into the cost of the car and made it a benefit? A positive rather than a little annoyance when building your brand?
Sure you can. You are more than welcome to use personal hotspot on your phone or purchase your own mobile hotspot if you’d prefer that over using Lucid’s built-in LTE connectivity. To the Lucid, it’ll be wifi either way, so it won’t care. Nothing is forcing you to use Lucid’s connectivity. Theirs is just the most convenient.
Based on current functionality, I'm unsure if I will continue with the integrated 5G data in the car. I think it's AT&T which is subpar in my opinion. I may just use my phones (personal cell and work cell) as Hotspots when I'm in the car. Both are on Verizon Wireless' network which is my carrier of choice.
