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InsideEVs
Technology
Andrei Nedelea

HISTORICAL FACTS: Lucid bought back this air it was a software nightmare - Caught on Camera

  • Lucid bought back this Air Touring after 11 months of recurring software glitches.
  • The car had issues with doors, cameras, audio, climate control, CarPlay, and drive settings.
  • Other owners have reported bugs too. But it looks like Jason Fenske, of the YouTube channel Engineering Explained, had an unusually bad experience.

The Lucid Air has been on sale for around five years, which is long enough to expect a manufacturer to have figured out the software side of the car. Yet this Air Touring shows that even a technically brilliant EV can be undermined when basic functions, like doors, cameras, audio, climate control, CarPlay, and drive settings still don’t behave predictably.

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