Lucid Will Add Hands-free Driving Options Later This Month

Lucid is astir to rotation retired its first hands-free features. On July 30, Lucid Air sedan owners pinch nan DreamDrive Pro add-on will get automated thrust assistance and lane-change features. If you person a Gravity SUV you'll person to hold until later this year.

The features will get via an OTA update for vehicles pinch DreamDrive Pro hardware. The optional add-on has 32 sensors, including LiDAR, radar, ultrasonic sensors and cameras. DreamDrive Pro already supports semi-autonomous features for illustration lane alteration assistance and curve control.

The caller thrust assistance and lane-change features return nan automation further, letting you spell hands-free. (Your eyes will still request to beryllium connected nan road, of course). The features will only activity connected compatible divided highways.

Lucid joins a increasing battalion of EV makers pinch hands-free options. It's a database that now stretches acold beyond Tesla's Autopilot and Full-Self-Driving. Rivian, GM, Ford and Nissan each person automated options.

As for Lucid, it's been a rocky thrust lately, reflecting nan industry's broader turbulence. It had 2 rounds of layoffs, cutting 400 people past twelvemonth aft reducing its workforce by 1,300 successful 2023. On nan agleam side, its Gravity SUV has had a affirmative reception. (It's rolling retired now, joining nan Air sedan successful nan lineup.) Lucid is besides expanding its existent estate. Earlier this year, nan automaker acquired an Arizona plant antecedently owned by the bankrupt Nikola.