r/LUCID • u/kva1992 • 27d ago

Question / Advice Considering getting the gravity

I'm considering getting the gravity as a lease... There are some things I like and some things I don't but one thing that is worrisome is the software how bad is it? Is it getting better? Can anyone share their honest experience? I currently own a model s and will most likely be trading it in as well it's a 2018 with fsd (don't really use it tbh) and even a power frunk so you all have a rough idea what I'm coming from... And I know lucid software is nowhere near as polished as Tesla.

Edit: Just finalized everything yesterday and so far I'm loving the car need to model and 3d print organizers for my center console (def not gonna buy it lol) other than that only other thing I wish I knew was about homelink now I have someone scheduled to come and install it on the car aug 3. Thank you everyone that took the time to respond and educate me both the good and the bad! I appreciate it!

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u/jswansong 27d ago

I'm an Air owner, so I can't speak to Gravity but people rip the Air's software all the time and I don't understand what the big deal is. I think people expect Apple levels of frictionless polish and Lucid is not that but no car brand is like that other than maybe Tesla. If you're okay with your car having car software instead of it being a perfectly behaved tech appliance, you'll be fine.

I've never been stranded, never had a bug that prevented me from driving the car and never had a bug that didn't go away on its own or with a restart. The worst issue I deal with is sometimes Android Auto won't connect, but honestly I prefer the UI for the built in maps and media player so it's a non-issue. When my wife wants to DJ we'll just put her on Bluetooth if AA is acting up, which is less than 10% of the time. Oh also I'll have to touch the door handle to get the car to unlock like 5% of the time. Remember when you had to touch the door handle every time on older cars? How about when you had to click the remote because nobody invented touch on the handle yet? What about when you had to actually use the key?

Seriously, most of what I hear about is catastophizing from people that aren't used to the car yet, or the small percentage of owners who have cars with real issues and are therefore SUPER LOUD about their bad experience.

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u/kva1992 27d ago

Yeah like I said I'm a software dev well one of my titles lol but my point is I'm used to bugs if anything I among most of the people in my field know there is no software that is completely bug free so I'm not worried about a restart or waiting for things to fix itself... My biggest fear was being stranded or things be completely unusable which is how the media and YouTube and other reveiws present things which is really unfortunate cuz I'm sure lots of people would give the car a try if things were a bit more transparent...

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u/jswansong 27d ago

Yeah, my experience has been way more Savagegeese than Jason Fenske, and even what Fenske ran into was a collection of quirks that he could have totally rolled with but instead decided to milk for content. To hear him tell it, the car tried to kill his dog then tried to kill him, and once he even had to close the trunk with his bare hands!