The Future of Cars EP 2

[GeraltOfRivian]

Very good series on the Gravity

 

[hydbob]

hmmm wonder why the took this video down...

 

[bryway]

I thought the same thing. Managed to watch the whole video last night and LOVED all the additional insights from the engineering team. Wonder if he went too far with some of his coverage, and they asked him to yank it for a re-edit (although I can't imagine he'd post that original I saw without first giving folks at Lucid a chance to review).

 

[Gravitas]

hmmm wonder why the took this video down...

On their Patreon page, message is "This video was removed at Lucids request". Does not say why.

 

[bryway]

Wow. I guess he went too far. Maybe the team that allowed him to capture all that footage got a little ahead of their skis, and someone in leadership was like: WTF?!!

 

[Gravitas]

Wow. I guess he went too far. Maybe the team that allowed him to capture all that footage got a little ahead of their skis, and someone in leadership was like: WTF?!!

Lucid thinks that they showed too much.

 

[DeaneG]

Dang, missed it

 

[sri]

Lucid thinks that they showed too much.
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Felt the same watching yesterday. They have shown too much of what Lucid did for Gravity.

 

[hydbob]

Felt the same watching yesterday. They have shown too much of what Lucid did for Gravity.

Like...in a good way or bad way? Also, SG didn't think to get the sign off first?

 

[sri]

Like...in a good way or bad way? Also, SG didn't think to get the sign off first?

In a good way understanding how hard they worked on Gravity, but it definitely show so much what they have done and the practices being used.

 

[HC_79]

Felt the same watching yesterday. They have shown too much of what Lucid did for Gravity.

Surprising. Any secret sauce that was inadvertently shown would be no doubt patented anyway.

Not like the competition aren’t going to buy one to tear down.

 

[bryway]

Surprising. Any secret sauce that was inadvertently shown would be no doubt patented anyway.

Not like the competition aren’t going to buy one to tear down.

Yeah, for sure.

Although, teardowns don't always expose the thinking and debate that lead to the design decision. SG captured the Lucid engineers covering a lot of that. Frankly, I was surprised at the level of candor -- for example the NVH engineers painstakingly walking us through the way they capture NVH events then use that data to test isolated parts of the vehicle structure, and their process for round-tripping any 'failures' back to design. I'm sure every car company does that, but the methods SG exposed were fascinating. He even teased the third episode where he said he intended to go in-depth on crash performance.

Wonder if he'll re-edit episode two and re-post, or if that's the end of the series.

 

[DeaneG]

Surprising. Any secret sauce that was inadvertently shown would be no doubt patented anyway.

Companies do not patent everything of value. A large portion of IP may be kept as trade secrets instead - particularly for manufacturing methods where you can't tell how something was made just by looking at the end result.

 

[Batteryman]

Lucid should have looked at the video before approving.....

 

[JB67]

I have been wondering what happened to these videos as the original one said they release them every Wednesday.

Maybe the Lucid review is taking longer than expected?
Having been on the receiving end of management reviews before, it can take a looooooong time.

I did get the chance to watch all of it, but there didn’t seem to be anything earth shattering there, but automotive engineering isn’t my specialty.

 

[bryway]

Lucid should have looked at the video before approving.....

I'm sure their PR or Social Engagement folks did -- but odds are good the 'right' people (or person!) in leadership didn't.