I’m more annoyed about the silence than anything. Mine was obviously bundled into the GT but for those who paid $10K it’s a shady thing to do with no explanation.
Everything was standard on GTs in the very beginning. Later on, items were made optional.
I paid the 10k, but I never expected hands free driving soon since it’s a new company. But nice to know you have the tech when anything gets added. Why would you think Lucid will miraculously have Tesla like FSD so soon? It took Tesla 20 years!
Oh ye of little faith
I never expected Lucid to have FSD 3 years in. What I did expect is for them to add things like auto lane changing and auto park/summon etc. like promised.
The Korean group is HL group (HL Klemove) that they are rumored to be working on ADAS sensors with. HL is one of the bigger 24GHZ radar sensor suppliers and are actively trying to move into the 77GHz radar sensors which are used for all of the Air radar modules. With respect to Here maps, I doubt that Lucid will move away from Here maps.
The problem is that hardware outdates very quickly, it doesn't become obsolete but it goes through upgrade cycles. Is the LiDAR sensor fitted in the car today still relevant to the LiDAR sensors that are available today, are the cameras still relevant to what cameras are available today, etc. Lucid dragging its feet on the software portion of DDPro will only make this gap worse.
The Airs LiDAR resolution and field of view is still very much state of the art. 150m range, 120 degrees horizontal field of view and 25 degrees vertical with 0.05 degrees of angular resolution. I think the bigger issue for becoming obsolete is the NVIDIA compute power. Lucid is using a newer sensor fusion strategy is referred to early fusion compared to the legacy automakers. In early fusion, all of the sensor information is combined before target identification. The advantage is that all sensor information, rather than filtered targets, is available for the perception algorithm. The disadvantage is that it requires a very high power central processor for the fusion. Since it is a newer strategy, the perception algorithms are not as well developed and hence the delay in rolling out new Dream Drive features. It is also the reason that the NVIDIA processing power is key to making Dream Drive Improvements.
Is it your opinion that our cars do not have an adequate process server? If so, how can Lucid remedy that on existing models? I assume Gravity will have much more capacity.
I have no opinion on the adequacy of the Air's NVIDIA central processor because we do not have enough information about what is needed or the current capability. It is only my opinion that the central compute power will become obsolete before the sensors. We do know that Gravity will have significantly better central compute power than the Air.
