Opinions about Hey Lucid

[HC_79]

Today I said, "Hey, Lucid, lower rear sunshade."

It answered, "I cannot do that. You will have to do that yourself. Please manually lower it." I was a bit bemused at how uselessly instructive the response was.

As I was driving, I did not want to go into the screen menus. A minute later, the sunshade suddenly lowered.

It's so hit and miss. The other day I said "Hey Lucid, my seat is cold" and it turned on the seat heater. Next day I tried the same comment and I got a lecture on how to do it myself. Yesterday I said "Hey Lucid, navigate to LAX" and it tried to route me to here

Not sure how it was excepting me to get over the Atlantic .

 

[DeaneG]

I'm just wondering how much Lucid paid SNL's Debbie Downer to provide the voice...

Little known fact: Hey Lucid, the NAV Lady, and Sad Marvin from Hitchhiker's Guide are actually siblings. They all wish they were somewhere else.

 

[Ktw13]

I have either read or heard somewhere from Lucid that the decision to develope hey Lucid is due to some restrictions from Google.

 

[Ktw13]

It's so hit and miss. The other day I said "Hey Lucid, my seat is cold" and it turned on the seat heater. Next day I tried the same comment and I got a lecture on how to do it myself. Yesterday I said "Hey Lucid, navigate to LAX" and it tried to route me to here

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Not sure how it was excepting me to get over the Atlantic .

Wow, Lucid is officially an AI company.

 

[borski]

I have either read or heard somewhere from Lucid that the decision to develope hey Lucid is due to some restrictions from Google.

Citation needed.

They developed Hey Lucid because Alexa sucks and Amazon wasn’t investing in it anymore. Nothing to do with Google, as far as I’m aware.

 

[Ktw13]

Citation needed.

They developed Hey Lucid because Alexa sucks and Amazon wasn’t investing in it anymore. Nothing to do with Google, as far as I’m aware.

I stand corrected, it was Alexa that only has limited functionality for automotive usage hence Lucid had to develope their own voice control to further develope the functionality.

 

[pjdcorp]

It's so hit and miss. The other day I said "Hey Lucid, my seat is cold" and it turned on the seat heater. Next day I tried the same comment and I got a lecture on how to do it myself. Yesterday I said "Hey Lucid, navigate to LAX" and it tried to route me to here

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Not sure how it was excepting me to get over the Atlantic .

That should be no problem. There are no traffic cops en route so it should be a pretty quick, albeit, damp trip.

 

[hmp10]

Not sure how it was excepting me to get over the Atlantic .

Pontoon and prop kit coming. Watch the Lucid store.

 

[Demosthenes]

My experience with Hey Lucid is that it’s quite slow, unreliable, and sometimes inexplicably incompetent. But @hmp10’s story is making me wonder if it’s diabolically brilliant instead…

 

[A Fischman]

That should be no problem. There are no traffic cops en route so it should be a pretty quick, albeit, damp trip.

No wear and tear on the tires.

 

[hmp10]

My experience with Hey Lucid is that it’s quite slow, unreliable, and sometimes inexplicably incompetent. But @hmp10’s story is making me wonder if it’s diabolically brilliant instead…

I think it may have a sense of remorse. I mean, after rather imperiously telling me to lower the sunshade myself, it did relent a minute later and lower it for me.

I try to avoid excessively moody people. But now this . . . ?

 

[hellolucid]

i just want it to stop waking up every time i mention Lucid in a conversation.

 

[joec]

My experience with Hey Lucid is that it’s quite slow, unreliable, and sometimes inexplicably incompetent.

To me, that's a perfect description of every voice assistant computer interface I've ever used.

There's a reason we all make fun of these things.

Is Hey Lucid worse than some of the others? No question. But are any of them good? Not in any universe where I'm the judge and jury.

Now that Lucid has made this move, they have no choice but to at least get LA up to par with the other assistants out there. I think they can pull that off. Might take a while, though.

 

[Keith]

i just want it to stop waking up every time i mention Lucid in a conversation.

This is why I renamed my (home) Alexa to "Computer" .. everytime my husband talked about his Lexus, she'd chime in

 

[DeaneG]

To me, that's a perfect description of every voice assistant computer interface I've ever used.... are any of them good? Not in any universe where I'm the judge and jury.

Respectfully, you and I are going to differ on this. We find the native Google Assistant in our other EV to be generally accurate and capable. Google has said their next step is to replace Assistant with their Gemini LLM. I'm looking forward to it.

 

[hmp10]

What I find interesting (and confusing) is that when I ask "Hey, Lucid" to do something, the written readout it displays is usually perfectly accurate, right down to properly spelling the sometimes odd names of artists. Yet it either can't execute the command at all or does something totally off base. So the issue doesn't seem to be accurately perceiving what is said, but not being able to analyze its content.

 

[DeaneG]

What I find interesting (and confusing) is that when I ask "Hey, Lucid" to do something, the written readout it displays is usually perfectly accurate, right down to properly spelling the sometimes odd names of artists. Yet it either can't execute the command at all or does something totally off base. So the issue doesn't seem to be accurately perceiving what is said, but not being to analyze its content.

I've seen the same. I think this is a potential area of rapid improvement.

 

[Negan1000]

Hey Lucid is very useful for turning on/off your seat heaters.

 

[joec]

What I find interesting (and confusing) is that when I ask "Hey, Lucid" to do something, the written readout it displays is usually perfectly accurate, right down to properly spelling the sometimes odd names of artists. Yet it either can't execute the command at all or does something totally off base. So the issue doesn't seem to be accurately perceiving what is said, but not being able to analyze its content.

Yes. Same. The trouble is definitely not getting the words that were spoken right. At least not for me. Others, depending on accent, could have other experiences. But it's the understanding of what is actually being requested that is a work in progress.

 

[borski]

i just want it to stop waking up every time i mention Lucid in a conversation.

Turn off the hands free option in settings. You can still hit the mic button on the steering wheel.