Mini road trip

[L-Dude]

I just returned from a minor road trip in my '25 AGT. This car is phenomenal. We set out Thursday midday (worst possible timing) for a wedding (no, not that one) and had traffic the whole way. The lowlight was sitting at a dead stop on the interstate for 30 minutes while they cleared an accident. The trip was only 250 miles each way, so range was never an issue. I charged to 100% before leaving, and charged to 90% at the hotel when we got to our destination. Easy peasy. We did stop at a gas station, but that was to get some coffee and a danish. Mmmmm...nothing like convenience store coffee and pastries to get the bowels working

For some reason, DDPro was completely unavailable on the trip out. No cruise control, no nothing. This was not a big deal because to traffic was so heavy that I would have had very limited use of any ADAS. When we got to our hotel, I did the brake-X-mic reset (I think that's what it was--I haven't reset my car much, so I always have to look up the procedure), but that didn't seem to resolve things. However when we got on the road for the trip home, everything was working. I find Hands Free to be really good, but I'm not 100% comfortable with it. Cruise control is flawless, but I wish you could allow the car to follow more closely than the car (on it's most aggressive setting) will allow. Every car I've owned has been like this.

Hands Free gets 8.75 out of 10. It is very good, but as others have said, the lane changes are just a little too aggressive. They're fine, but a little smoother would be better, and I suspect they will find the Goldilocks setting with the next update. Otherwise, it was great. I only had one or two bobbles when passing weirdly configured off-ramps, but that was about it.

This car is soooooooo much fun to drive. The ability to blast around some weirdo who feels it is ok to hang in the left lane doing 64 mph in a 65 mph zone is super cathartic. Yes I'm talkin' bout you blue Prius with Florida plates. The trip out took 5 hours, but the trip back took just 3.5.

One of the great things about the car for me is the infotainment system. I run almost everything through CarPlay, which works really well for me. SirusXM or content directly from my iPhone works perfectly (cell service required). Full disclosure: I never use anything other than CarPlay, so I don't experience some of the infotainment issues others may have mentioned here.

I don't want to drive anything other than my Air. My wife suggests taking her SUV from time to time, but I insist. On this trip, she really wanted to take her hybrid, because she was worried about range/charging etc. After seeing how far the car goes on a charge, and how easy it is to recharge overnight at a hotel, she is 100% sold. One note: she was commenting on how hard the seats were, and I showed her the heating/cooling and massage. She likey.

 

[drb3333]

Thanks for taking the time to report your experience!

For me, because of OTA updates, input like this helps me characterize changes and improvements secondhand.

 

[gaskiller]

I just returned from a minor road trip in my '25 AGT. This car is phenomenal. We set out Thursday midday (worst possible timing) for a wedding (no, not that one) and had traffic the whole way. The lowlight was sitting at a dead stop on the interstate for 30 minutes while they cleared an accident. The trip was only 250 miles each way, so range was never an issue. I charged to 100% before leaving, and charged to 90% at the hotel when we got to our destination. Easy peasy. We did stop at a gas station, but that was to get some coffee and a danish. Mmmmm...nothing like convenience store coffee and pastries to get the bowels working

For some reason, DDPro was completely unavailable on the trip out. No cruise control, no nothing. This was not a big deal because to traffic was so heavy that I would have had very limited use of any ADAS. When we got to our hotel, I did the brake-X-mic reset (I think that's what it was--I haven't reset my car much, so I always have to look up the procedure), but that didn't seem to resolve things. However when we got on the road for the trip home, everything was working. I find Hands Free to be really good, but I'm not 100% comfortable with it. Cruise control is flawless, but I wish you could allow the car to follow more closely than the car (on it's most aggressive setting) will allow. Every car I've owned has been like this.

Hands Free gets 8.75 out of 10. It is very good, but as others have said, the lane changes are just a little too aggressive. They're fine, but a little smoother would be better, and I suspect they will find the Goldilocks setting with the next update. Otherwise, it was great. I only had one or two bobbles when passing weirdly configured off-ramps, but that was about it.

This car is soooooooo much fun to drive. The ability to blast around some weirdo who feels it is ok to hang in the left lane doing 64 mph in a 65 mph zone is super cathartic. Yes I'm talkin' bout you blue Prius with Florida plates. The trip out took 5 hours, but the trip back took just 3.5.

One of the great things about the car for me is the infotainment system. I run almost everything through CarPlay, which works really well for me. SirusXM or content directly from my iPhone works perfectly (cell service required). Full disclosure: I never use anything other than CarPlay, so I don't experience some of the infotainment issues others may have mentioned here.

I don't want to drive anything other than my Air. My wife suggests taking her SUV from time to time, but I insist. On this trip, she really wanted to take her hybrid, because she was worried about range/charging etc. After seeing how far the car goes on a charge, and how easy it is to recharge overnight at a hotel, she is 100% sold. One note: she was commenting on how hard the seats were, and I showed her the heating/cooling and massage. She likey.

I’m never buying a car without CarPlay……why’s some automakers don’t understand and get greedy is mind boggling

 

[Saksak]

I’m never buying a car without CarPlay……why’s some automakers don’t understand and get greedy is mind boggling

Because it takes time and engineering resources to implement CarPlay and Apple dictates the UI. CarPlay used to be good when car manufacturers had crappy UI’s.

I personally don’t use CarPlay, as I much prefer the Lucid UX. Using CarPlay feels like taking a step back in time compared to the Lucid UX. I’d rather have all the car manufacturers compete against each other for the best UX as a differentiator.

Competition and customer choice is good.

 

[7OaksTom]

I have been driving my new to me 2023 AT for 2 weeks now. I really don't like the Lucid Navigation at all. The routing is inefficient and the voice prompts say "Stay to the Right" at every major interchange in the freeway. As a result I have had to switch my 2 GB cell service to unlimited so i can use Google Maps via CarPlay. I wish we could see it on the Pilot panel.

 

[DeaneG]

I have been driving my new to me 2023 AT for 2 weeks now. I really don't like the Lucid Navigation at all. The routing is inefficient and the voice prompts say "Stay to the Right" at every major interchange in the freeway. As a result I have had to switch my 2 GB cell service to unlimited so i can use Google Maps via CarPlay. I wish we could see it on the Pilot panel.

It might help to download one or more offline maps to Google maps. But I've found ours too use a lot of data even with comprehensive offline maps downloaded.

 

[L-Dude]

I wish I had thought to try the Lucid nav for bit on this trip.

 

[DeaneG]

I wish I had thought to try the Lucid nav for bit on this trip.

It's OK. My issues with it are poorly timed voice directions ("Turn right!" too early), a lack of police/accident notifications and reporting, and a tone of voice that sounds like it would rather be doing anything else, anywhere else.

 

[AirDoll]

I just returned from a minor road trip in my '25 AGT. This car is phenomenal. We set out Thursday midday (worst possible timing) for a wedding (no, not that one) and had traffic the whole way. The lowlight was sitting at a dead stop on the interstate for 30 minutes while they cleared an accident. The trip was only 250 miles each way, so range was never an issue. I charged to 100% before leaving, and charged to 90% at the hotel when we got to our destination. Easy peasy. We did stop at a gas station, but that was to get some coffee and a danish. Mmmmm...nothing like convenience store coffee and pastries to get the bowels working

For some reason, DDPro was completely unavailable on the trip out. No cruise control, no nothing. This was not a big deal because to traffic was so heavy that I would have had very limited use of any ADAS. When we got to our hotel, I did the brake-X-mic reset (I think that's what it was--I haven't reset my car much, so I always have to look up the procedure), but that didn't seem to resolve things. However when we got on the road for the trip home, everything was working. I find Hands Free to be really good, but I'm not 100% comfortable with it. Cruise control is flawless, but I wish you could allow the car to follow more closely than the car (on it's most aggressive setting) will allow. Every car I've owned has been like this.

Hands Free gets 8.75 out of 10. It is very good, but as others have said, the lane changes are just a little too aggressive. They're fine, but a little smoother would be better, and I suspect they will find the Goldilocks setting with the next update. Otherwise, it was great. I only had one or two bobbles when passing weirdly configured off-ramps, but that was about it.

This car is soooooooo much fun to drive. The ability to blast around some weirdo who feels it is ok to hang in the left lane doing 64 mph in a 65 mph zone is super cathartic. Yes I'm talkin' bout you blue Prius with Florida plates. The trip out took 5 hours, but the trip back took just 3.5.

One of the great things about the car for me is the infotainment system. I run almost everything through CarPlay, which works really well for me. SirusXM or content directly from my iPhone works perfectly (cell service required). Full disclosure: I never use anything other than CarPlay, so I don't experience some of the infotainment issues others may have mentioned here.

I don't want to drive anything other than my Air. My wife suggests taking her SUV from time to time, but I insist. On this trip, she really wanted to take her hybrid, because she was worried about range/charging etc. After seeing how far the car goes on a charge, and how easy it is to recharge overnight at a hotel, she is 100% sold. One note: she was commenting on how hard the seats were, and I showed her the heating/cooling and massage. She likey.

“for a wedding (no, not that one)”