2d ago

Owning A Lucid Has Been Super Disappointing

Living with my Lucid Air Touring has not been pleasant - it's a buggy mess.

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This video is the best advertisement I've ever seen for not replacing my old car without any smarts and mechanical-everything that's important.
In fairness, it's not really a criticism of electric vehicles, but rather a criticism of "cellphone cars". I have nothing against EVs, I just wish they came with simple controls that made them good vehicles.
- There are quite a few EVs that come with simple controls (respectively). It's just the companies spawned to make EVs that decide to reinvent the wheel.
  I've had a Chevy Bolt EUV and a Hyundai Ioniq 5 - both have physical buttons for most of what I want.
- I saw Marques Brownlee's review of the Xiaomi SU7 yesterday, and the contrast with this Lucid review is amazing. MB spent his time gushing over how amazing and bug-free the software was, how great the UI/UX, and all the little quality-of-life details in the hardware and design.
  
  I wouldn't buy anything a YouTuber ~~video salesmen pretending to be reviewers~~ recommends tho.
  And, especially not this guy.
  
  I still wish we didn't have to worry about cars being bug-free... That's something we rarely - if ever - had to worry about in the past.
- One of many reasons I ordered a Slate
  
  I replied without seeing your response. I have high hopes for Slate. Also I believe Rivian is going to make cheaper models in the next couple of years.
This video made me appreciate the software on Teslas a little bit more.
I like to shit on every single change they do, but they came out with the Model 3 in 2017 at full sprint with a fully working software suite (excluding "FSD").
If their Model 3 software was in this state back then I would have returned it.
- Yeah I mean it sucks in other ways but at least it is functional.
The early reviews agreed it’s got great hardware, which is a ln important starting point. Tesla still had/has significant build issues after years of experience. But it’s fair to criticize the software, especially when it makes up so much of the vehicle experience.
The first half of the video is all complaints I can live with, but I’d get annoyed with the issues towards the end. Savagegeese also has a complaints video and his as I recall had several issues that would drive me nuts.
The complaint about CarPlay grabbing another phone during a drive by happens every damn day with my partner’s car, which was made by a major manufacturer. It should associate by key, but that sounds complicated /s. The other CarPlay bug he mentioned where it forgets the phone also happened.
I still think I’d buy one if I was in that price range for cars. The problem is that I think people like me might see some of the reviews and stretch to get one and be really disappointed. I hope they fix the software bugs but they’re on a tight budget and also working hard on developing new models.

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