Yay Hardware upgrade CPU and memory

Can’t help but have mixed feelings about this. Seems like a lot of what it’s improving is stuff that doesn’t work properly in the original infotainment, which seems like it should be covered by warranty since the original system doesn’t really work as sold. The branding of it all as an upgrade is obviously designed to avoid any admission that there were glaring issues with the infotainment as sold. Which is legitimately surprising given how many substantial upgrades and improvements HAVE been covered under warranty since 2022.

Meanwhile, my software issues have gotten dramatically worse (as in, the entire system takes twice as long to start when I try and get the car going, and I’ve had to reset it quite a bit more often to even get all the screens going) since the last software update. Now that we know about this, it feels likely that the latest software was designed for the upgraded hardware and wasn’t really designed for the original unit. Yes, that’s something phone manufacturers have been doing for over a decade, but to have it start happening to cars (where the software gets updated to the point that the hardware stops working properly unless you pay to upgrade it) is pretty concerning if it becomes a pattern.

I’ll reserve final judgment until we have some real world reports regarding the process and the change, but I’m curious if other people have suddenly finicky software issues that arose with 2.7 that just miraculously go away when they spend $950… it IS great to have optional upgrade paths for consumers if that’s truly all it is, but if future software updates continue to work poorly on the system as sold, that would be a problem. Because then it’s not really optional or an upgrade.
Cars are now phones on wheels, this is the new norm. They will be software driven. I would give credit to Lucid for offering this. You do understand tonnes of new features and functionality has been added since the car was introduced? If you want those improvements, you need to accept software bugs. Or, you can just drive around with a dinosaur, you can’t have it both ways.
 
If you’re in the NYC area, Plainview is taking appointments but doesn’t have the hardware in yet— so they’re making appointments for late August. For now they said it’s only at the service center, but might be offered as a mobile tech visit by then.
 
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