Lucid Motors is set to roll out a software program replace on July 30 that may allow hands-free freeway driving on its Air sedans, a serious step ahead for the corporate’s superior driver help system.
The rollout will put Lucid Motors on a brief record of firms which have made hands-free driving attainable in america. Ford has a system referred to as BlueCruise, Normal Motors has Tremendous Cruise, and Mercedes-Benz has Drive Pilot, though it’s not as widely available. In the best situations and in automobiles outfitted with an in-cabin digicam, Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) can also be used hands-free.
Lucid says the hands-free replace is simply coming to the Air sedans for now, with an replace rolling out to house owners of the brand new Gravity SUV slated for later this 12 months. (The corporate has barely began transport Gravity SUVs anyway, with Cox Automotive reporting this week that solely 5 have been delivered within the second quarter.) The system can be solely accessible to prospects who purchased an Air outfitted with the $2,500 “Dream Drive Professional” bundle, which features a “complete suite of 32 sensors” that features lidar, radar, cameras, and ultrasonics.
The corporate declined to say what number of prospects have bought the Dream Drive Professional bundle to this point. Lucid has delivered round 20,000 automobiles since 2021.
Drivers must hold their eyes on the street forward and be able to take over at any second, very like the competing driver help techniques. Lucid says this will likely be executed with an infrared camera-based system within the automotive that sits on high of the steering column. They’ll additionally solely be capable of use the hands-free system on “suitable” pre-mapped divided highways.
Replace: Added details about pre-mapped highways and the system’s infrared digicam.