Opinions about Hey Lucid

[DennisIS]

Brand new 2025 AGT owner.

My 2013 Audi S6 had BMW's attempt at spoken commands -- useless - I tried twice and then gave up.
My wife's Audi S60 Recharge has Google platform. Integrates with Chrome on her PC. Excellent natural language in both directions. Doesn't perfectly control all car functions but it's super easy to get it to do things that matter.

Lucid Assistant has awful speech, an awful GUI ("listening" then proudly tells me the words it heard" - like a 5-year old learning english) and - like my ancient BMW - makes you learn what "it" calls things or you get "not supported in this client" or other useless replies.. My old BMW knew enough to show me prompts / things I could say "next"/ a path to getting it to do things. Lucid just leaves me guessing.
UNWORTHY of this vehicle.

 

[BJR]

I was driving singing along to Box Scaggs-What can I say? And the music stopped and I heard a voice say "You can say anything you want." I wanted to slap the car. I turned Hey Lucid off.

 

[hmp10]

We can't mention Lucid (no "Hey, Lucid" involved) when we're in the car without the speech tracker activating. I was watching a video review of a Touring yesterday, and it activated unbidden while the reviewer was wrapping up his review. From his reaction, you could tell it wasn't the first time.

I may just throw in the towel and turn the damned thing off if I can live with my partner asking me to hit the mic every few minutes while he is trying to figure out what he wants to listen to.

 

[Cuestix]

I recently sold a 2006 Mercedes E350 wagon that had a fully working set of voice commands for the limited functions it could perform (nav, cruise control, basic infotainment). I rarely used the voice commands because there were tactile buttons for pretty much anything that arose while driving. I've not had much experience with "Hey Lucid" so far, but would find a fully baked version most welcome since I need to glance at the pilot panel to do almost anything useful aside from volume adjustments, temperature controls and the DDP / audio controls on the wheel. I'm really excited for updates to Hey Lucid because I'd love a set of voice commands that are specific to the car and make CarPlay obsolete.

My "Hey Lucid" experience so far involved asking it to turn on the heated steering wheel (which it couldn't understand or do) and then having my Tidal playlist reset to the first song. I'd like to be able to set and change the wipers, adjust lights, reset trip, maybe check tire pressure an similar functions while driving without needing to hunt though menus or look away from the road to make sure I'm pressing the right spot on a screen. Maybe some of that is already working, but I haven't managed to make it happen, yet.

 

[scal_air]

Hey Lucid is definitely a work in progress...
I'm hoping that it become the next area of focus after Android Auto comes out.

 

[FA14]

Hey Lucid - Worst thing ever….amongst other things in this car. One software update breaks 5 other things at same time and the other one to fix does the same.

 

[Bobby]

Hey Lucid - Worst thing ever….amongst other things in this car. One software update breaks 5 other things at same time and the other one to fix does the same.

Well that’s not really true.

 

[gavram]

I don't use Tidal or Spotify and really miss being able to ask Alexa to play a specific song. I also used it a lot for general info questions beyond the cars functions.

 

[Grewsome]

Hey Lucid is definitely a work in progress...
I'm hoping that it become the next area of focus after Android Auto comes out.

If they get android auto working, there will be no need for hey lucid. I don't understand why car companies spend resources developing subpar voice assistents and navigation when Google already does it better than they ever will and would be easier to add than developing a whole new system.

 

[stratus]

Hey Lucid - Worst thing ever….amongst other things in this car. One software update breaks 5 other things at same time and the other one to fix does the same.

That’s a bit harsh. Yes, Hey Lucid is a bit silly at this point and there are often software bugs introduced with new updates. The latest error, with surround cameras occasionally non-functional after 2.5 is a bit frustrating but it will be fixed. I suspect Hey Lucid will take a long time to mature; hopefully owners will be patient and appreciate all the great things about the car, even when we have disappointments.