New to the Lucid Family - From Model X to Gravity Dream Edition

[Ron_Burgundy]

DDP is Tesla Enhanced Autopilot to be honest at this point. I'm wondering if there was a reason they went with Nuro for autonomous driving portion of the Uber collab, might take too long to finish up DDP in-house?

Activation one DDP from steering wheel is not consistent, sometimes require a second click, same with changing drive modes, I wonder if it's just the button responsive or software? Or me? Sometimes I glide and press on the capacitive buttons, but I thought the capacitive portion is only the direction pad, and not the button actuation bottom section.

Lane change is pretty abrupt, it starts to ease into the lane, then seems like a quick jerk and you're in the lane. Try this multiple times with same results.

Happened multiple times to me, it drives at my fixed cruising speed, then suddenly drop to posted speed limit, but setting are not set to match posted speed limits.

slight ping ponging on the lane when driving straight (I-5 in CA).

Y splits on highways are a problem. it does not know which split to take, no association with GPS destination and roads. To me, it recognizes the road and lane markings, but no intelligence behind it for decisions. and usually (in my experience) takes the split to the left if you're on left lane, and takes the split to the right if you're on the right lane. Now I'm trained to either turn off DDP or yank the squircle when a split comes up.

Lane biasing works.

once in a while, if I changed the following distance, it didn't seem to make any difference on the actual following distance.

It's good enough on the highway, that I can use it to help with driving long distance on road trips. But not as good as FSD when I don't think much about it anymore. DDP you have to be consciously thinking about it, and know it's on DDP but you're ready to do something.

These are all software fixable. So I'm not worry about it, just going to give it time to improve. FSD really improves when it hit v13.

-iThinkEV-

Super helpful overview. Very much appreciate it. “Had” to get DDPro as wife is used to FSD but was expecting it to be a step back with DDPro for foreseeable future.

 

[jered]

DDP is Tesla Enhanced Autopilot to be honest at this point.

I agree with this assessment. It feels a lot like my X did in 2019.

It's fine; I definitely like having it vs not. Adaptive cruise control and lane-keeping are table stakes for me in a new vehicle. Lane change works, although not quite as smoothly as the Tesla today. It does not self-initiate lane change. DD2P does not interact with navigation guidance in any way.

One thing that's frustrating is that it is very noisy with alerts. Even though it can manage busy traffic just fine, any time there's a slowdown it starts beeping like crazy and flashing red steering wheels in case you need to take over. This gives me a lot of concern over its actual safety parameters -- can I use it in congested highway conditions or not? That's the situation I most want driver assistance.

I'm wondering if there was a reason they went with Nuro for autonomous driving portion of the Uber collab, might take too long to finish up DDP in-house?

I'm not convinced Nuro has anything to do with Lucid's plans. As I mentioned in a different thread, Uber has been spraying money out around the world in hopes of partnering with a viable Waymo competitor. They liked the Nuro driver, Nuro and Uber needed a vehicle partner, and Lucid probably was willing to play ball on integration costs and provide a sexy launch vehicle for the announcement. I would not assume there's anything more to it than that.