Hands-free Trunk/Frunk opening

[slairt]

Hi All! I have an Air touring. I also have an ICE car. I am sure a lot of you have or had an ICE car.

I am so used to having the hands-free trunk opening (waving foot near the trunk) with my ICE car. Most ICE cars have this feature. Lucid does not have it.

Do you think this will come in a future OTA update?

 

[Amster]

Hi All! I have an Air touring. I also have an ICE car. I am sure a lot of you have or had an ICE car.

I am so used to having the hands-free trunk opening (waving foot near the trunk) with my ICE car. Most ICE cars have this feature. Lucid does not have it.

Do you think this will come in a future OTA update?

I don't know that most do. This is my first full EV and I've never had an ICE car that did that. But all have been sedans or compacts. I think that's a feature on larger vehicles. But it would be a cool update.

 

[Neurio]

Hi All! I have an Air touring. I also have an ICE car. I am sure a lot of you have or had an ICE car.

I am so used to having the hands-free trunk opening (waving foot near the trunk) with my ICE car. Most ICE cars have this feature. Lucid does not have it.

Do you think this will come in a future OTA update?

The hands free opening uses a sensor under the bumper to detect the foot motion. The Air does not have that, so there's no way to add it in a software update.

 

[SaratogaLefty]

GV60 has it.

 

[Lucken]

I had it on several cars and always found it too awkward to use. In many cars that have it, you have to hit the sweet spot as you swing your leg awkwardly under the bumper. Sometimes it would work sometimes it wouldn’t.

My electrified G80 was the last car to have it, and although it was easier to use, it was also annoying. You‘d stand behind the trunk for something like 3 seconds and the trunk would pop open. Sounds nice in theory. The only problem is that would happen frequently when you didn’t want it to happen. There were times you might be wiping down the car or talking to someone and then the trunk would beep & open unnecessarily.

Fortunately you could disable the feature which I did. So I don’t miss this feature at all.

 

[crareman]

I have had it on several cars. It was great when I wanted it to work. Many a time I sat on the rear bumper putting my golf shoes on/off and the thing wanted to eat me as I put one foot down and raised the other to put a sock on.

 

[Bobby]

GV60 has it.

Some cars do, some cars don’t.

 

[joec]

I've never had a car with this feature. I've seen others attempt to use it, waving their legs like goofballs, with limited success. Thus, I've never sought it out in any car I've bought.

There are aftermarket sensors for some cars that can add this sort of functionality. Someone may offer that for Air down the line, perhaps?

 

[DeaneG]

I'd welcome it on the Gravity. We have foot-operated hatch opening on our Volvo EV. It works well if you go at it with confidence.

 

[Keith]

when it worked I'd ask my Apple Watch to "Open/Close the Frunk/Trunk" .. I'd be a happy camper when that functionality starts working again

 

[borski]

when it worked I'd ask my Apple Watch to "Open/Close the Frunk/Trunk" .. I'd be a happy camper when that functionality starts working again

For what it's worth, you can set this up in Home Assistant and Siri if you want to set up Home Assistant.

 

[EVCar]

I’ve always accepted it as it is what it is, but does anyone know the rationale behind the time-out feature for trunk/frunk power closing? Genuine question since I haven’t seen it before.

 

[MGRMLN]

We have it on our Porsche Cayenne. I love using it but my wife hates it since she's short and has to walk very close to the rear bumper to get things out of the car and it triggers, trying to close the hatch on her head!

 

[koflo]

I know the car doesn’t have the sensor to achieve this but it’s still very much an OTA viable thing. Another manufacturer uses your proximity key positioning relative to the car. If you stand close to the trunk for a long enough time then the trunk will automatically open. Now this option definitely isn’t fool proof but I do think would be something more useful then not (especially if you can toggle it off). The hard part is that Lucid still can’t figure out the mobile key consistency (yes I’ve done all the workarounds and had my antennas replaced), let alone be able to detect your mobile key from the back of the car. Seems improbable at this point based off what I’ve seen from the mobile key reliability but it is possible.

 

[MGRMLN]

I don’t think there are sensors at the rear of the car. It’s an omission.

 

[Steveinarizona]

I have had it on several cars. It was great when I wanted it to work. Many a time I sat on the rear bumper putting my golf shoes on/off and the thing wanted to eat me as I put one foot down and raised the other to put a sock on.

I had it on my BMW 5 series and sort of on the GV60P. Sort of in that one doesn't have to put the left foot in and take right foot out/ one merely has to stand behind the vehicle. I sit on the edge changing my golf shoes several times a week and have never had it try to move while I was there.

 

[Leftlane]

I know the car doesn’t have the sensor to achieve this but it’s still very much an OTA viable thing. Another manufacturer uses your proximity key positioning relative to the car. If you stand close to the trunk for a long enough time then the trunk will automatically open. Now this option definitely isn’t fool proof but I do think would be something more useful then not (especially if you can toggle it off). The hard part is that Lucid still can’t figure out the mobile key consistency (yes I’ve done all the workarounds and had my antennas replaced), let alone be able to detect your mobile key from the back of the car. Seems improbable at this point based off what I’ve seen from the mobile key reliability but it is possible.

This - just got it on my Tesla with the latest update - stand behind the trunk with your mobile key and it will open after 3 beeps. You can turn it off in the car if you want - not crucial but it’s a nice feature. No sensors back there that I know of and was added in the last OTA.

 

[koflo]

This - just got it on my Tesla with the latest update - stand behind the trunk with your mobile key and it will open after 3 beeps. You can turn it off in the car if you want - not crucial but it’s a nice feature. No sensors back there that I know of and was added in the last OTA.

Yeah that was the vendor I was hinting at. Very intuitive way to pull this off. Still unsure if Lucid could pull this off though. I am unsure if they can get that precise with their phone key. But I guess they could relay on the backup camera + proximity key. We will see if we ever get something like that though. Seems like that’s in the 1% category.