QUESTION [Poll] Will you keep your order without HUD?

[gladtbx]

HUD or not, it is a question.

 

[CraZ8]

Since my color ( supernova bronze) is not available till fall it would appear my order will be delayed long enough for HUD to be available again. I suppose that will make my Gravity a 2026 but my Air will depreciate and be worth less. I’m just ticked that I won’t have the Gravity for all my summer trips

 

[Cosmo Cruz]

I thought HUD was a gimmick until I used it on the wife's Mazda. A transparent credit-card sized screen tips up just above the binnacle, both out of the way and in direct line of sight.

It's really nice. Not a deal-breaker, but all being equal had the edge.

 

[jered]

I thought HUD was a gimmick until I used it on the wife's Mazda. A transparent credit-card sized screen tips up just above the binnacle, both out of the way and in direct line of sight.

The pop-up displays are neat, but what Lucid is pitching is more like the MB AR-HUD. Here's a good article (with videos) that describes what that is like: https://spectrum.ieee.org/augmented-reality-car-hud

Being able to register eye position against the windshield means that actual things in your line of sight can be highlighted -- hazards, other vehicles, turn-by-turn directions. Someone in my household often misses turns when there are dense city streets and rotaries ("roundabouts" to some of you) even with voice navigation and the mini-map on the dash. Having the actual turn highlighted in front of you will be a huge difference.

I have really high hopes for this technology. As you can seen in some of the concept videos on the page above, you could literally never miss a red light or a stop sign because you'd see a virtual red barrier exactly at the stop line. Never be in the wrong lane or miss an exit. It's really cool stuff. The big challenge is integrating all the software together. It doesn't make sense to have multiple camera systems and multiple computers all doing scene analysis for different purposes (nav, ADAS, HUD), but that's the classic supply-chain model. It's much harder, however, to make the software work right so that everything runs centrally and is displayed through different output channels.

 

[Cosmo Cruz]

The Lucid Air can certainly use more visibility aids. Pretty sure a closed-up tank has better visibility. I've had so many close-calls with those enormous A-pillars...

a car with good driver visibility. I gave this up for the Air. I can't see ship out of the Air.

a horsey car