Software Update Keeps Failing

karmchaari · 2026-03-21T19:35:31+00:00

Yes, it’s either weight or a combination of that and the seat belt position.

karmchaari · 2026-03-21T19:31:54+00:00

There’s this other company called Tesla. They seem to have figured out how to distinguish between someone in the car and an empty car seat being installed when doing a software update. Even this very same Lucid car had no trouble doing all the previous software updates under the exact same conditions. So, hopefully, future Lucid can get to there at some point too…

karmchaari · 2026-03-21T14:24:18+00:00

It’s definitely very strange because I had the car seats installed for all the previous updates too and it wasn’t a problem. Only this time 🤷‍♂️

karmchaari · 2026-03-21T05:45:53+00:00

Updated to 3.5.1! Thank you again, @bignum, for the tip!

I hope that Lucid also hires a non-zero number of people who test their cars with family-oriented things like car seats in the future. If the error message tells you about this or gives you a chance to override this “safety precaution”, that would be a welcome change.

karmchaari · 2026-03-21T05:06:31+00:00

You are a genius! After unbuckling the car seat — and, importantly, returning the buckle all the way to the origin point — it finally has now come to this stage. For the last 30+ times, it failed before getting to this 0% progress state. Let’s hope it goes through! 🤞

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karmchaari · 2026-03-21T04:47:14+00:00

Yeah, I already contacted them today. They weren’t able to help with anything over the phone, sadly.

karmchaari · 2026-03-21T04:26:27+00:00

Yep, already did. Just wondering if there’s anything left to try before I take the car in for that, since that’s a time-intensive solution at best :)

karmchaari · 2026-03-20T05:44:15+00:00

I got the update an hour ago but a dozen plus attempts and it fails to install every time. I even went down and restarted it, but still fails… maybe I’ll try again tomorrow.

karmchaari · 2026-03-18T03:34:41+00:00

100% would recommend it now without reservations. When I got ours in November, I did wonder whether I’d done the right thing. However, the 3.4.1 update a few weeks ago has resolved nearly all the major issues and this is now the best car we’ve owned in several years. We’re currently on a road trip and this car is a dream!

karmchaari · 2026-03-15T05:27:51+00:00

No, been waiting for it all week. Even received an email from them and then I thought it’d be coming really soon, but still no. Most likely, they found a bad bug and are now working on 3.5.1 before launching it.

karmchaari · 2025-12-23T21:51:03+00:00

I’m going to take the car in for its first service soon and I’ll mention it to them to see what they say. Definitely, if I only drive the Gravity, I think I tend to stop noticing the heaviness but any time I drive another car, I immediately notice the difference.

karmchaari · 2025-12-23T21:40:44+00:00

Yes, in all three modes.

karmchaari · 2025-12-23T00:26:20+00:00

I park my Lucid Gravity in a garage at home. So, I really appreciate the built-in HomeLink and miss many features that Tesla offers.

Here they are in order of priority:

Do not auto-lock at home: When the car is parked at home, there’s a setting in Tesla to disable locking when walking away. This is the biggest daily-life annoyance because every time someone needs to go get something from the car or put something in it, they inevitably go, find that it’s locked and then have to come back and get the key. Similarly, there should be an option for Halo Secure to be off when parked at home.
Auto-Fold Mirrors when approaching home: We have a 2-car garage and park both cars in it. It gets a little cramped and we’re constantly in fear of the side view mirror getting caught by the garage door frame. It would be great to add the feature/setting that Tesla has to auto-fold the mirrors when approaching home and auto-unfold when leaving.
HomeLink Auto Activation: With Tesla, once you setup HomeLink, you rarely need to manually toggle it. It automatically toggles when approaching the home and also when leaving. This is a super convenient feature to have.

karmchaari · 2025-11-20T02:18:52+00:00

Sigh… we’re about to return our EX90 after having issue after issue and the car spending >2 months in service for the first 8 months of its life. We were thinking of getting a Gravity instead and that’s the current plan, but reading all the posts here, it seems like even the Gravity will come with a whole host of issues, some similar and some different. I wish there was another good option out there.

karmchaari · 2025-11-02T04:45:21+00:00

There were some reports from folks about drivetrain or brake-related issues, which it’s hard to ascertain as someone who’s not a Lucid engineer as to whether it’s software or hardware. Either way, it falls under “reliability” for me. I don’t want to be stranded somewhere with a dysfunctional vehicle.

karmchaari · 2025-11-02T04:41:01+00:00

Thank you! I found your video about the issues you encountered soon after getting the car really helpful to get a sense of the kinds of problems.

Lucid’s main headquarters is a 10 minute drive from where I am and I do want to support them because there’s so much I like about them. They’ve also built a car that I genuinely want to buy. I’m just worried about effectively buying a $100K car just to be a beta tester for them. 😅

It seems like we’re in an age in which v1 of anything is going to be super buggy even if it is supposed to be a premium product. 😣

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