Valet Key

[Bill AGT]

Just learned about the “Valet Key”.

It has NOTHING to do with valet. To use it you hold it near the pillar, open the door and then put in your PIN. So for a valet, you must give them your PIN.

Better to give them a key fob. Which means I need to get a faraday bag, which is being delivered today.

I am told that some updates may be coming for the valet key soon OA, which will make it more functional.

 

[CDrury]

You can create a guest pin for valet key

 

[RAF42]

Just learned about the “Valet Key”.

It has NOTHING to do with valet. To use it you hold it near the pillar, open the door and then put in your PIN. So for a valet, you must give them your PIN.

Better to give them a key fob. Which means I need to get a faraday bag, which is being delivered today.

I am told that some updates may be coming for the valet key soon OA, which will make it more functional.

Actually if you hold the key card up to the microphone above you, you do not need to enter a PIN (that's for Air, I *think* you have to place it somewhere in the Gravity). So it would work for a valet. That said, the odds of the second Valet knows this as they are going to retrieve your car are negligible. A picture on the card might help, but might not. If Lucid gave us the option to not need a pin if the car was opened with the card, then it would be viable.

So while it technically could function as a valet key, at this time it's more likely to cause confusion. I only use my FOB for car washes (touch-less) and for the rare times we use a Valet.

Edit: as @CDrury points out, you could use a guest PIN and likely have to put that # on the card which would probably reduce potential confusion.

 

[DrK]

The card is most definitely NOT A VALET card. A- too new for valets to understand how to use B- does not limit any access if used successfully. C- guest pin needs continual changing to have any significant security.

Any valet parking with a busy team of valets is just setting up failure. It’s hard enough to teach one who often has to teach two more?

Somebody should rename the card so new owners are not mislead. For me it is a BackUp Card or BUC but that is in no one’s vocabulary.

Conceptually the Tesla system putting pin in owners possession is better. I would improve that by giving the owner ability to set time window for valet accessibility to persist and phone app ability to modify that.

 

[borski]

The card is most definitely NOT A VALET card. A- too new for valets to understand how to use B- does not limit any access if used successfully. C- guest pin needs continual changing to have any significant security.

Any valet parking with a busy team of valets is just setting up failure. It’s hard enough to teach one who often has to teach two more?

Somebody should rename the card so new owners are not mislead. For me it is a BackUp Card or BUC but that is in no one’s vocabulary.

Conceptually the Tesla system putting pin in owners possession is better. I would improve that by giving the owner ability to set time window for valet accessibility to persist and phone app ability to modify that.

They don’t call it a Valet Card. The manual refers to it as “Lucid Key Card”

 

[joec]

The card is most definitely NOT A VALET card. A- too new for valets to understand how to use B- does not limit any access if used successfully. C- guest pin needs continual changing to have any significant security.

Any valet parking with a busy team of valets is just setting up failure. It’s hard enough to teach one who often has to teach two more?

Somebody should rename the card so new owners are not mislead. For me it is a BackUp Card or BUC but that is in no one’s vocabulary.

Conceptually the Tesla system putting pin in owners possession is better. I would improve that by giving the owner ability to set time window for valet accessibility to persist and phone app ability to modify that.

Completely agree. Call the card something else. Create an actual Valet mode (like Tesla did) that limits the car appropriately until the OWNER types in a PIN to disable.

Seems like Gravity is a step in the right direction by eliminating PIN to drive. Now do the rest. And do the same for Air.

 

[borski]

Call the card something else.

They do.

 

[joec]

They do.

They do now. Not when I got my Air.

So that’s two steps in the right direction.

 

[Miami_Lucid_Man]

Valet mode a la Tesla is really all they need (plus give them the fob). I'm shocked they haven't implemented a speed reduction, lock all but essential controls-type mode like that via PIN set by owner as of yet.