Lucid UX 2.0 is worth the wait

[asds999]

Just upgraded to 2.0.8 and everything after 2.0.5 has been astounding.

Navigation: Much smoother interface and always has the travel time and mileage showing on the navigation panel now, also the car remembers to disable turn by turn voice.
Homelink: It will now pull up when you approach your garage so all you have to do it tap it.
Dreamdrive: Lane Centering is now on the car, only downside is that this is geofenced to interstates while my Tesla will lane center on any road.
Parking Cameras: Much improved, 360 is a lot smoother now, object detection doesn't obstruct the screen at all anymore and makes parking close to things much easier.
Blind Spot: Instantly shows up without fail every time the turn signal is used.
Phone Key: Works well so far, every time I have approached the car, the car knows I am there and is ready for me.
UI Improvements: Lane departure disabled light has been moved and is much smaller, menu buttons have been placed to the left of the screen instead of the far right, menus are snappier and much more responsive.

Improvements I want to see: Navigation could be a smoother still and they need a better API to update locations (a new buffet opened in my town and my Tesla can see it but the Lucid does not see it), 360 camera could be a little quicker to open up, switching profiles is still a pain in the butt and takes too long to load.

All in all, this feels like a brand new car to me. With 1.0 I was very skeptical of how the software would be handled going forward, now I can't wait to see what the team does next.

 

[hmp10]

Homelink: It will now pull up when you approach your garage so all you have to do it tap it.

That feature has been on our Air since delivery at the end of 2021. What's still missing is for the Homelink buttons to pop up when we back out of the garage, as they do on our Tesla. (We have the 2.0.12 update installed.)

I agree that Navigation has been considerably improved. However, I and at least two other posters on this forum now have satellite images that have darkened almost to the point of unreadability. No information as to why only some cars experienced this with the software updates.

 

[Fishkabob]

Navigation: Much smoother interface and always has the travel time and mileage showing on the navigation panel now, also the car remembers to disable turn by turn voice.

Can you separately control the turn by turn voice level, or is it still on and off?

 

[Fishkabob]

Phone Key: Works well so far, every time I have approached the car, the car knows I am there and is ready for me.

This is a great upgrade for me as I don’t use the FOB. But, is there a tradeoff of higher vampire drain?

 

[asds999]

Can you separately control the turn by turn voice level, or is it still on and off?

No control that I can see currently to adjust the volume of the voice (besides changing the car volume entirely).

This is a great upgrade for me as I don’t use the FOB. But, is there a tradeoff of higher vampire drain?

I have not noticed any vampire drain, I will keep an eye out to see if this is affected due to better phone key recognition.

 

[asds999]

That feature has been on our Air since delivery at the end of 2021. What's still missing is for the Homelink buttons to pop up when we back out of the garage, as they do on our Tesla. (We have the 2.0.12 update installed.)

I agree that Navigation has been considerably improved. However, I and at least two other posters on this forum now have satellite images that have darkened almost to the point of unreadability. No information as to why only some cars experienced this with the software updates.

Interesting, I must have had a different software build previously because I have never had homelink menu open automatically when approaching the garage and it was listed as a feature in the 2.0.5 update I had received.

 

[DBordello]

Silly question, how does one get 2.0?

 

[joec]

Silly question, how does one get 2.0?

It has not been widely released yet. There were internal beta testers, a slightly larger group of testers, and now a small, limited group of testers from the forum here that were selected a week or so ago.

So the short answer is, you have to wait until Lucid finishes polishing 2.0 and releases it to the general fleet. Should be in a matter of weeks.

Downside, more waiting. Upside, when they do release it, there will be fewer bugs this initial testing group is experiencing.

 

[Bbamrah]

That feature has been on our Air since delivery at the end of 2021. What's still missing is for the Homelink buttons to pop up when we back out of the garage, as they do on our Tesla. (We have the 2.0.12 update installed.)

I agree that Navigation has been considerably improved. However, I and at least two other posters on this forum now have satellite images that have darkened almost to the point of unreadability. No information as to why only some cars experienced this with the software updates.

Really what is missing is auto sending the command at a pre determined distance from the gate or garage door. Opening and closing.

 

[SDHacker]

Glad you’re excited and want to share with the forum about how great 2.0 is but until the software is being sent to everybody, we need to preface new 2.0 threads with something that says the software is in beta and not available for distribution yet. Every thread that talks about 2.0 gets a response asking how they can get it.

Regarding lane centering - there’s a reason this version of it is called highway assist. Hopefully traffic jam assist or another future upgrade will address lane centering on streets although I doubt I would use it.

 

[Percentage]

That feature has been on our Air since delivery at the end of 2021. What's still missing is for the Homelink buttons to pop up when we back out of the garage, as they do on our Tesla. (We have the 2.0.12 update installed.)

I agree that Navigation has been considerably improved. However, I and at least two other posters on this forum now have satellite images that have darkened almost to the point of unreadability. No information as to why only some cars experienced this with the software updates.

I agree. It is inconvenient to navigate to close the garage door.

 

[SaratogaLefty]

So I am one of the latest batch of "beta testers" and I have just finished fully updating to 2.0.12 last night. Heading out for a drive later this morning to try out some of the new features. The "instant" startup commences as soon as you open the door which is very nice but for me the slower startup wasn't really that bothersome. Here's the thing that maybe hasn't been adequately mentioned. The "new" Lucid software team has completely rebuilt the entire platform with these updates and that will continue to pay dividends as future updates are released (Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, etc.). I know there will be posters on this forum still clamoring for more of this or that, but for me I say "hats off" to the software team for all their efforts thus far and I am excited to see what future updates will bring.

 

[borski]

Lane Centering is now on the car, only downside is that this is geofenced to interstates while my Tesla will lane center on any road.

Not just interstates, to be clear - highways. For example, the 101 in CA is not an interstate and it works fine on that. Same for the 85 and 17.

 

[hmp10]

Not just interstates, to be clear - highways. For example, the 101 in CA is not an interstate and it works fine on that. Same for the 85 and 17.

I'm not sure what criteria Lucid is using to define a highway. My Highway Assist is working on I-75, but it is not available on County Road 846 where I live, which is a wide 6-lane roadway on which our Tesla Autopilot works.

 

[Bobby]

This is a great upgrade for me as I don’t use the FOB. But, is there a tradeoff of higher vampire drain?

A little but low. Easily recovered while driving.

 

[asds999]

Not just interstates, to be clear - highways. For example, the 101 in CA is not an interstate and it works fine on that. Same for the 85 and 17.

I kind of wish it wasn't limited at all and let us have free range to test it out but I also understand why that would be a bad idea.

 

[borski]

I kind of wish it wasn't limited at all and let us have free range to test it out but I also understand why that would be a bad idea.

Over time, I’m certain they’ll add more roads as they continue to gain confidence. Everywhere else, ACC does still work.

 

[Novecento]

Is it just me or you are experiencing the same.....My sun visor mirror doesn't stay open. It seems like they installed it backwards. When lifting the flap up you have to hold it open with one hand in comparison to my Tesla it opens to the bottom. The only cheap feature I found on this car for now.

 

[SDHacker]

Is it just me or you are experiencing the same.....My sun visor mirror doesn't stay open. It seems like they installed it backwards. When lifting the flap up you have to hold it open with one hand in comparison to my Tesla it opens to the bottom. The only cheap feature I found on this car for now.

Yes, it’s just you.
You have to fold the flap with the seam going up and magnets hold the two halves together

 

[noobzilla]

Good to hear about software improvement.