Lucid Motors Will Roll Out Hands-free Highway Driving This Month

Lucid Motors is set to rotation out a package update connected July 30 that will alteration hands-free road driving connected its Air sedans, a awesome measurement guardant for nan company’s precocious driver assistance system.

The rollout will put Lucid Motors connected a short database of companies that person made hands-free driving imaginable successful nan United States. Ford has a strategy called BlueCruise, General Motors has Super Cruise, and Mercedes-Benz has Drive Pilot, though it’s not arsenic widely available. In nan correct conditions and successful cars equipped pinch an in-cabin camera, Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) tin also beryllium utilized hands-free.

Lucid says nan hands-free update is only coming to nan Air sedans for now, pinch an update rolling retired to owners of nan caller Gravity SUV slated for later this year. (The institution has hardly started shipping Gravity SUVs anyway, pinch Cox Automotive reporting this week that only 5 were delivered successful nan 2nd quarter.) The strategy is besides only disposable to customers who bought an Air equipped pinch nan $2,500 “Dream Drive Pro” package, which includes a “comprehensive suite of 32 sensors” that includes lidar, radar, cameras, and ultrasonics.

The institution declined to opportunity really galore customers person purchased nan Dream Drive Pro package to date. Lucid has delivered astir 20,000 cars since 2021.

Drivers will person to support their eyes connected nan roadworthy up and beryllium fresh to return complete astatine immoderate moment, overmuch for illustration nan competing driver assistance systems. Lucid says this will beryllium done pinch a camera-based strategy successful nan car that sits connected apical of nan steering column. They’ll besides only beryllium capable to usage nan hands-free strategy connected “compatible” divided highways. TechCrunch has asked for much specifics and will update this communicative erstwhile Lucid provides them.