The car is awesome, handles very well, accelerates instantly at any speed, and is extremely comfortable. The following are issues that I am putting down here just so Lucid will see them and our forum members may be able to help with a solution. This is based on just a few hours with the car. I may have more in the future.
- Turning off navigation audio – extremely annoying. If anyone knows how, please let me know.
- Eye/distraction monitoring – way too sensitive, they need to put a sensitivity scale on it. The warning constantly goes off and interrupts music being played (not sure what it would do if I were on a phone call). Yes, I know I can turn it off – but would like to have the safeguard where I can adjust sensitivity.
- Homelink – cannot get it to work. I follow the procedures; it reads my clicker and then it goes into this 1-2-3 step and after that it asks if the garage door operated, and I click on “No” and the process starts all over again. If someone else has run into this issue, please help.
- Stereo system – I have said this before, it is underwhelming – The components for the Tesla Model X stereo sounds much better (fuller and louder).
- Side mirrors – I know the car has an incredible and sophisticated 360 screen for the car, however, I still like to see my mirrors when I park into very tight spaces (my garage). The mirrors do not have a tilt feature when the car is placed in reverse. This should be a very easy software fix and I hope they do it.
- SiriusXM – I still hear that this will be a future option. This would only be possible if the hardware is being installed on every car. Unless they cut a deal where only the streaming service is integrated into the infotainment system.
- CarPlay - this issue has been beaten to death, let's just hope it comes. I currently use a cupholder dock so my phone can show Waze and I can access other music apps, such as SiriusXM.
Happy driving everyone!
After driving the car for a week, all my issues with the car are software. The two hardware related issues were quickly fixed by the mobile service techs. Here they are:
Coming to the car from sleep, my car takes around 60-70 seconds before all the displays are on and the icons are showing. There have been a few times where it just would not go past the Lucid logo on the lower middle screen and I had to lock the car, walk away and come back a couple of minutes later.
All the apps are sluggish. Tidal and Bluetooth do not maintain continuous connectivity (have not tried the other streaming services). Tidal will stop working and then when it comes back it will start from the beginning of the album or playlist I was listening to. Has anyone been able to direct dial a radio station in? When I try the numbers are greyed out.
Navigation seems to randomly refresh and with the sluggishness, it takes time for the map to patch back together and the mute on the nav voice turns back on.
Although Homelink pops up when I get close to my home, I have to back into the garage due to the placement of the wall charger (currently using Tesla with adapter). Homelink is not easily accessible once you are parked. The cameras continue to display on the screens. You have to manually exit the cameras, then a couple of click before you can press the Homelink button. They should have Homelinkas as a one or two touch icon.
The lane warnings are way too sensitive and not accurate, particularly on turns.
Phantom drain is higher than expected.
Based on discussions with my tech about these issues, he said that Lucid is aware of the sluggishness of the entire infotainment system. He does not believe that optimization will solve all the issues, be believes that the processing unit used by Lucid cannot handle demand from the apps. He thinks (and I think not) that Lucid will upgrade all the Dreams and GTs to a faster processing unit.
BTW - does anyone know what carrier they use for connectivity?
Regardless of the above, what a car! Just a thrill to drive. I have left it in smooth 98% of the time and it still is fast. Love this car.
