Software and Tech Opinions

[Batteryman]

Yep, I almost pulled the trigger last week because Lucid had an offer I almost couldn't refuse: $60,000 up front ($21k in lease incentives + 39k for 2021 Model S) BUT in going to the showroom for one last look at test drive before signing, I got spooked by admittedly some minor issues. I had to press the door handle 2x to open (not a big deal but I noticed it), my phone wouldn't charge in the charging slot (after the salesperson assured me there were no issues charging phones wirelessly anymore) and the native nav for some reason locked up on us as we were driving.

Since my Model S works fine (more the only issue being politics), I decided not to play Russian Roulette now and will see what Lucid does with the Air in 2026 or 2027 (hopefully get a v2). Love the car but don't want to deal with early adopter headaches.

Minor issues, I never use phone slot, I plug in the cable. Don’t deprive yourself of the best sport sedan ever made.

2.5 years in, still get an itch to drive the car. It excites me like no other car!

If you want perfect reliability, only one car dies it- Toyota. Perhaps, a toyota EV is best for you? But compared to the Air, handling, driving, range, efficiency, looks, space - will be abysmal.

 

[SaaSManKS]

Minor issues, I never use phone slot, I plug in the cable. Don’t deprive yourself of the best sport sedan ever made.

2.5 years in, still get an itch to drive the car. It excites me like no other car!

If you want perfect reliability, only one car dies it- Toyota. Perhaps, a toyota EV is best for you? But compared to the Air, handling, driving, range, efficiency, looks, space - will be abysmal.

What about a BMW 850 Gran Coupe M series, Porsche Cayenne Coupe, Audi RSQ8, or even a Cadillac Blackwing? All are top ranked sports cars with more stable OS...

 

[borski]

What about a BMW 850 Gran Coupe M series, Porsche Cayenne Coupe, Audi RSQ8, or even a Cadillac Blackwing? All are top ranked sports cars with more stable OS...

They’re definitely perfect and have no issues whatsoever.

 

[SaaSManKS]

They’re definitely perfect and have no issues whatsoever.

I'd def like to compare a run down chart for time spent in the service center(and in transit) of any one of the above vs my lucid pure

 

[Baumer55]

Hi, I’m about two months in to the touring after 6 years of Tesla. I love the way the car drives, handling, blah. BUT wtf is up with the tech? I’m trying to love this car but the software needs a lot of work. I’ve looked through these forums with similar issues and apologize in advance that this is a repeat, but I’m hoping there’s some lucid goddess who will help. My issues are:

- mobile phone key. Mostly doesn’t work and constantly in waking up mode. It’s a fucking teenager. I’ve rebooted, re this and that. So annoying.

- mobile app in general simply doesn’t wake up. I live in a pretty dense city, wifi is not an issue.

- car kinks - I’ve had instance where the car won’t start. I have my key and phone, it won’t recognize. Sometimes the car will when wt eating stays my door is open? Its
lt, open and close and still not working. If I go to park then try to go back, n nothing. Is trading the power to go or shift to drive. I literally have to sit and wait. And trying all sorts of different movements to get the car to recognize it needs to move.

- had the car sleepy desire just go on for 2 minutes. Turned that setting off, I think.

- car play just sucks ass. The sound already is shit and then interrupted by my phone sounds.

I have been in too many situations in less than 2 months where the car is not responding. If this shit continues, I can’t do lucid. These seem like easy software updates so I’m hoping there is a fix. If anyone can enlighten me on these issues, please…

I drove the Tesla Model S for 12 years (3 different cars) and switched to Lucid almost 20 months ago. I agree with everything you've said. The car drives great, albeit the range is nothing near what the car says it should be, but there are definitely a lot of bugs in the software that need to get addressed. I've gotten used to most of them and some have improved with updates, but I doubt I'll re-up when my lease runs out unless things significantly improve. Enjoy the drive and don't get too worked up the software.

 

[Batteryman]

What about a BMW 850 Gran Coupe M series, Porsche Cayenne Coupe, Audi RSQ8, or even a Cadillac Blackwing? All are top ranked sports cars with more stable OS...

OS? They have ability to have OTA updates? I don’t consider those cars big into software. Lucid, Rivian and Tesla or on another level.

 

[SaaSManKS]

Lucid's software is it's weakest point, that is not a compelling statement. I will happily share a run down chart of how much time my pure has been in transit/at SC vs a RSQ8 which is what I am leaning towards as my next car.

While OTA's are cool, this maturity model is still in it's infancy.

 

[AZLucidGuy]

How well did it work in your Tesla? Oh, wait . . .




This sounds very much like the problems we had intermittently with the 2021 Model S Plaid we sold a couple of months ago. It would periodically go through stretches of several days when the car would not recognize the mobile key or the key fob. The only way to get into the car would be the key card. Even then, about half the time the car would not start until we rubbed the key card over the phone charge pad. The problem came and went the entire three and a half years we owned the car.

And the automatic gear selection feature for forward and reverse never worked reliably.

I could go on . . . but I just don't take seriously these claims that Tesla software is perfect.

Whatever software problems Lucid has -- and they are certainly there -- I'd still take the room, comfort, ride compliance, more precise handling, luxury materials, interior quietness, and structural solidity of our Air over a Tesla any day of the week (and we've owned Teslas since 2015).

Agree. I love my 2022 Air GT. Software has/is problematic at times, but MUCH improved from the version 1.x.x days. I also have two Tesla model 3. A 2023 and 2024. Both have problems with the phone access at times as well. Not as frequently as the Lucid, but it happens. Today I got into the 2024 Model 3 and my iPhone unlocked the car but would not let me drive it demanding a card key on the center console. I did not have it. I am the OWNER, not an added driver. So I had to delete the key and re-create it. So Tesla has been at this EV game for a decade longer than Lucid and still has issues, fewer, but still issues.

 

[emoylv]

From all the opinions here, you can see that there is a lot of variance. You might want to check into the various owner's forums (fora?) for the other vehicles and see if the quality of their software checks out.

 

[Bunnylebowski]

Are you claiming that they know how to write good software but don't? One of the easiest ways to improve on the software is to have procedures for capturing logs and being proactive about catching bugs even before the users notice them. There is nothing even close to what Lucid does.

And let's not even mention how bad they are at communicating.

BTW, according to friends Rivian's software is pretty good. So, not ALL companies go through "growing pains". If I mention to somebody that I can't start driving my car for few minutes if I turn on the AC remotely, I'll get laughed at. But I had to do it for FEW MONTHS because Lucid can't get their ... act together.

You’re factually wrong. Lucid has both employed testers and also a group of owner testers which get OTA early to find bugs in various vehicle incarnations before wide release. This is partly why the Android Auto release took time. I am not one of the testers. While I do not disagree that random intermittent glitches seem to get introduced with OTA, the OTA also fix others, such is the complexity of software releases, see Volvo/Polestar. Hyundai/Kia/Genesis don’t really even do OTA.

And for gods sake just use the Fob to get into and out of the car. It’s not that hard. If the handles don’t present with fob in pocket, push in rear passenger door handle. If that doesn’t work double squeeze the fob. My car was built March 2022 and has had almost no connectivity problems partly because I don’t use mobile key. Is it annoying the mobile key on the phone isn’t always reliable? Yes. So just use the fob which is really very little inconvenience aside from having to change the battery every 4 months or so. Since your situation is so intermittent it’s probably due to either your phone or fob being in just slightly too close proximity to your car when in your house and the car auto-disables passive unlock for a period of time so your car isn’t just sitting there unlocked for anybody to go hop into.

 

[Pragmatic]

I use the fob exclusively, pushing the door handle to get in and to lock the car. Passive lock/unlock is turned off, range is too short to be worthwhile. First set of batteries lasted 4 months, current batteries have been in the fobs for 14 months. Car keeps telling me to change the battery but I'm waiting it out.

 

[Bunnylebowski]

Also I got into the car today, there was literally no sound, no turn signals, no music, just totally dead audio. Took an infotainment reboot which seemed to take an eternity of holding down the reset button. Except there’s one caveat….that was my wife’s 2024 Volvo V60 Polestar PHEV. I was just moving her car out of the driveway. Then I got into the Lucid and drove to store without any software hiccups.

 

[DeaneG]

Also I got into the car today, there was literally no sound, no turn signals, no music, just totally dead audio. Took an infotainment reboot which seemed to take an eternity of holding down the reset button. Except there’s one caveat….that was my wife’s 2024 Volvo V60 Polestar PHEV.

Same here with our Volvo. Sometimes it reboots spontaneously when I enter. Even without the reboot, it can take several minutes for Google Maps to start working.

Lucid's software may not be perfect, but it's ready to go when I enter the car. Though this could be because I sometimes give it 15 seconds' warning while trying to unlock the door .

 

[borski]

BTW, according to friends Rivian's software is pretty good. So, not ALL companies go through "growing pains".

Yeah, no issues at all. And that's just the latest update! Gosh, the forum is full of happy people!

They definitely don't have battery issues either.

No growing pains whatsoever.

I'm not dumping on Rivian. I like Rivian; I think they make great cars. My point is that saying they've had no growing pains is an absurd statement, as evidenced by their very forums similar to this one. Now, you and I are both well aware that forums amplify the negative, not the positive, so forming any judgment based on that would be wrong, but hey - people do that here all the time.

The grass is always greener, until you're on the grass and realize it's actually turf.

 

[SaaSManKS]

The grass is always greener, until you're on the grass and realize it's actually turf.

Agreed!

 

[hmp10]

For what it's worth, @tarator is not verified as a Lucid owner.

 

[Lucidicrous]

What you talking about?! Problems fixed! Go take a test drive….

 

[Batteryman]

Go look at Reddit Rivian forums, you will see their owners have issues as well. It’s nit all rosy their either.

Software and tech “totally” unreliable? This statement itself shows the over exaggeration. Totally means all the time, every time. Wonder how he even gets in the car? You should be realistic, not over the top.

 

[Mislucid]

Yep, I almost pulled the trigger last week because Lucid had an offer I almost couldn't refuse: $60,000 up front ($21k in lease incentives + 39k for 2021 Model S) BUT in going to the showroom for one last look at test drive before signing, I got spooked by admittedly some minor issues. I had to press the door handle 2x to open (not a big deal but I noticed it), my phone wouldn't charge in the charging slot (after the salesperson assured me there were no issues charging phones wirelessly anymore) and the native nav for some reason locked up on us as we were driving.

Since my Model S works fine (more the only issue being politics), I decided not to play Russian Roulette now and will see what Lucid does with the Air in 2026 or 2027 (hopefully get a v2). Love the car but don't want to deal with early adopter headaches.

I did not realize there were going to a variety of early adopter issues. I went thru this forum and checked out road trip because I’m going to drive from ca to az and it’s almost like the car or az wants to fail me. The drive is definitely very comfortable and 10/10. Here’s where my mental state goes on overdrive and not enough vodka to make me forget.

- have to do homework on charging stations for a long road trip. Dl’d ABRP and plug share, they both reccomend I stop at quartzite and will be at my destination with 10%. Cool, problem is I can see the mileage vs miles since last charge changing at a different rate. For example, screen shows charge 180 miles but start to drive, and it changes to 150, when I’ve only driven 10 miles from last charge. I just can’t rely on this.
- get to destination with 6 miles and now try to find a charger. There’s one 2 miles away. Need to find it and that’s a big gripe I have in areas I don’t know, I’m circling to find these small stations. They’re not clearly marked like Tesla. Find a blink station dl the app, it charges 10 miles per hour 6 or 8 kw. I hang out to get back to 12 miles so I can drive to a fast charging station. Literally drive out the lot, the miles goes to 8. I get nervous find the next crap station that is damaged with someone cutting off the cables. Stressed to find the next one that is another 2 miles. This one charges a little faster but 13kw still a time suck. I hang out at target until the car gets to 22 miles. Back on track to the fast station. Circle around 3 times and finally ask someone nearby and they say drive thru the gates, like how tf am I supposed to know. My miles are back at 5, I’ve driven in 105 az heat with no air cause I’m so low on miles. Get there, says blink but doesn’t take my card, QR code tells me to dl the app I already have. I call the number, miserable, I have to dl another app, enter my card info and then it worked. Charged up to 150 miles. That was 3 hours later.
- next am, my car has a flat tire. I had to uber and then call aaa to help determine if it’s just air, repair or replace. Turns out leak in tire, lucid was no help, ending up keeping the car at tire center overnight cause they don’t have the tire size. 600$ later waiting for the tire.
- I learned from this experience but I wish I didn’t have to. I want my Tesla back because it was something I knew and the times I had issues, Tesla towing came to the rescue.

I know a lot of people here will likely discount this sentiment but it’s frustrating and I don’t have the leisure of time trying to balance everything and figure out the car too. I would wait until they at least get the Tesla charging adapter.

 

[SaaSManKS]

I did not realize there were going to a variety of early adopter issues. I went thru this forum and checked out road trip because I’m going to drive from ca to az and it’s almost like the car or az wants to fail me. The drive is definitely very comfortable and 10/10. Here’s where my mental state goes on overdrive and not enough vodka to make me forget.

- have to do homework on charging stations for a long road trip. Dl’d ABRP and plug share, they both reccomend I stop at quartzite and will be at my destination with 10%. Cool, problem is I can see the mileage vs miles since last charge changing at a different rate. For example, screen shows charge 180 miles but start to drive, and it changes to 150, when I’ve only driven 10 miles from last charge. I just can’t rely on this.
- get to destination with 6 miles and now try to find a charger. There’s one 2 miles away. Need to find it and that’s a big gripe I have in areas I don’t know, I’m circling to find these small stations. They’re not clearly marked like Tesla. Find a blink station dl the app, it charges 10 miles per hour 6 or 8 kw. I hang out to get back to 12 miles so I can drive to a fast charging station. Literally drive out the lot, the miles goes to 8. I get nervous find the next crap station that is damaged with someone cutting off the cables. Stressed to find the next one that is another 2 miles. This one charges a little faster but 13kw still a time suck. I hang out at target until the car gets to 22 miles. Back on track to the fast station. Circle around 3 times and finally ask someone nearby and they say drive thru the gates, like how tf am I supposed to know. My miles are back at 5, I’ve driven in 105 az heat with no air cause I’m so low on miles. Get there, says blink but doesn’t take my card, QR code tells me to dl the app I already have. I call the number, miserable, I have to dl another app, enter my card info and then it worked. Charged up to 150 miles. That was 3 hours later.
- next am, my car has a flat tire. I had to uber and then call aaa to help determine if it’s just air, repair or replace. Turns out leak in tire, lucid was no help, ending up keeping the car at tire center overnight cause they don’t have the tire size. 600$ later waiting for the tire.
- I learned from this experience but I wish I didn’t have to. I want my Tesla back because it was something I knew and the times I had issues, Tesla towing came to the rescue.

I know a lot of people here will likely discount this sentiment but it’s frustrating and I don’t have the leisure of time trying to balance everything and figure out the car too. I would wait until they at least get the Tesla charging adapter.

Sorry for your loss