I know that you have 10x more posts than me and that you are a respected moderator but don't like your tone on this! Never mind that you are wrong, its the absolutist tone that is bothersome! It sends a chill to anyone (else) who wants to speak up. Maybe you're burning out, moderating all the chirping but you're starting to become more curt. That "sorry" was particularly disingenuous!
Oh, and back to you are wrong! It was one of the first objections that I had on 10/30/21! Noted it to Lucid within a week and they agreed that that internal whine was a flaw and they were trying to figure out how to dampen it. Maybe when they could not fix it they spun it to the rest as a design enhancement. Sorry to be the historian on this!
When the Air was in development, there were prototypes. And we know several pre-production cars were made. In fact, I recall a video with Peter himself driving around New York, talking about how they were making final tweaks, and that this button or that one would need to be replaced, rethought, etc.
Presumably, in the hundreds, if not thousands, of hours Lucid engineers and other executives spent driving the car before they released it to all of us,
one of those folks, if not Peter himself, noticed the motor whine. Heck, it’s the first thing 90% of us notice when we drive an Air for the first time.
So they very likely noticed it fairly early in development. And a decision was made they weren’t going to do anything to change it.
The alternatives are that a) no one noticed in all that drive time. And b) they felt they just didn’t have the engineering know how to change it.
Peter, who was lead on Model S, which doesn’t have the whine, just couldn’t figure out a way to dampen a motor sound? None of those wonderful audio engineers who designed the beautiful bespoke Dolby Atmos system could have lent a hand on acoustic muffling?
Or maybe they were too cheap to do anything about it? Also seems unlikely, given how many low-tolerance one-off parts went into the Air.
Seems more likely they felt the noise was something they were okay with, is all I’m saying.
Now after shipping, as they got complaints about it from some customers, did they try to do something about it in already shipped cars? Sounds like maybe from what you were told? Lucid reps have told us lots of things over the past few years. But short of doing something physical to all of our cars in an extremely expensive recall, it’s not clear what can be done. It’s not software. It’s the actual motor making noise.
And cars shipping now still have the noise years later.
I just find it hard to believe they didn’t consciously decide to leave it prior to shipping the car to customers. And they clearly haven’t considered it a big enough deal to change it for new cars. Which means someone at Lucid is good with it. It’s an intentional decision.
As I mentioned, I’m sort of ambivalent to it myself. If it went away tomorrow, I wouldn’t mind. Others genuinely love it.
I’m certainly not going to tell anyone they are Wrong! for not liking it. I’m just saying the chances they will do anything about it in our already shipped cars is next to zero.
I’m a pragmatist.
The Gravity, like I said, is another matter. Plenty of time to make that change before shipping. I’m genuinely curious if it will still whine like the Air or not.
