I really, really hope Lucid enables camera recording in its cars soon.
I was lucky in our Lucid Air accident last week when the young man who turned left in front of us was honest with the police about the collision, even though it resulted in his being held 100% responsible.
But three weeks earlier it went the other way. I was backing our Honda Odyssey minivan out of a parking space at a bank branch and was already fully in the travel lane. As I put the car in gear to pull forward, a car backing out of a space on the opposite side of the lot struck our rear bumper. The damage was minor (and only to our car), and I was just going to exchange information with the other driver. However, he said he had insurance but could not find his card. I got suspicious and told him I was going to have to call the police. When the police arrived, he suddenly remembered where his insurance card was. He then proceeded to lie about who hit whom. I asked the bank about their security footage in the parking lot, but they would not release it without a subpoena and said the process could take several weeks. After I showed his insurer, GEICO, a photo of the position of my car when it was hit, they agreed to pay half my repair costs, saying their insured was still insisting he was not at fault. I'm going to drop it at that as it's not worth a pitched battle.
But I really, really would like to have had the incident captured on the car's camera.
