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Maybe this was just a revelation to me, but I thought I'd share it...
I took my first drive with Hands Free last night. It was smooth to the point that I wondered if Lucid implemented other performance enhancements than just enabling Hands Free. That seemed unlikely to me, as I thought it made far more sense for Lucid to only make this one important change, and then monitor the result. Then, something occurred to me. With Drive Assist alone, while the car almost always stayed safely within its lane, it was seldom quite where I would normally have it positioned. (I think I tend to hug the left a little.) So, with torque-based Hands On driving, and since I had to nudge the wheel one way or another anyway, I would find myself nudging the wheel to where I wanted the car to be positioned, and the car subtly fought me on that. Hence, a little bit of a ping pong ride.
With Hands Free, I quickly got accustomed to just letting the car do its thing, and that ping pong effect disappeared. Looks like some of my software was interfering with the car's software!
Of course, I'll be keeping my hands either gently resting on the wheel or right next to it, but for the most part, I'll just start getting comfortable with letting the car do its thing. As nicely as it performed, that should be pretty easy.
I took my first drive with Hands Free last night. It was smooth to the point that I wondered if Lucid implemented other performance enhancements than just enabling Hands Free. That seemed unlikely to me, as I thought it made far more sense for Lucid to only make this one important change, and then monitor the result. Then, something occurred to me. With Drive Assist alone, while the car almost always stayed safely within its lane, it was seldom quite where I would normally have it positioned. (I think I tend to hug the left a little.) So, with torque-based Hands On driving, and since I had to nudge the wheel one way or another anyway, I would find myself nudging the wheel to where I wanted the car to be positioned, and the car subtly fought me on that. Hence, a little bit of a ping pong ride.
With Hands Free, I quickly got accustomed to just letting the car do its thing, and that ping pong effect disappeared. Looks like some of my software was interfering with the car's software!
Of course, I'll be keeping my hands either gently resting on the wheel or right next to it, but for the most part, I'll just start getting comfortable with letting the car do its thing. As nicely as it performed, that should be pretty easy.
