Lucid’s cars come with 3 years of free charging through Electrify America. Their network isn’t as ubiquitous as Tesla’s so it largely depends on where you live, but they do seem to have good coverage along highways to the point where you could roadtrip across the country pretty easily if you wanted to. Of course 500+…

If you book a basic economy ticket (on United, Delta, AA, etc.) and you want to choose your seat, you do have to pay for every seat—even a middle seat or a seat in the very back. I’m not sure if that’s what the author was talking about though.

there’s still a sneaky “seat selection” fee that you’re not meant to notice when you choose your seat

As much as I love the SS in manual, for a ~200 mile round trip commute I would prefer to buy something that’s a little less rare and more... disposable. And they DO depreciate when the miles really start adding up, even if it’s less so than some other cars.

A remote operations center is safer and a much more likely scenario than “trucking from home.” Then they’d just have a regular commute like everybody else.

Self driving will happen, but that “truck driver sitting at home” thing is pretty unlikely. A remote operations center, where operators can guide the vehicle without taking direct remote control (for example, guiding it past the scene of an accident on the highway where the AI doesn’t know what to do) makes a lot more…

How often do you need to adjust your seat while driving? Or for that matter, turn on the headlights considering they’ve been automatic on all but the cheapest econoboxes since the 90s? The wipers, as far as I can tell, still have a physical stalk on the steering column.

Why wouldn’t it ship? They have the team and the financial backing to make it happen. The factory’s already built and packed with production lines. The showrooms have real, tangible cars. The hard part is what happens after it ships.

True. Reliability and consistency will be key here, too. Any hint of lag will torpedo the experience regardless of how it looks.

It has Alexa for voice control as outlined in the video.

Are you sure you’re not thinking of the Mercedes EQS?

“Let’s just make the entire dash a giant screen, accent the air vents to make them look like buttholes, and call it a day.”

Compared to other infotainment systems this doesn’t look terribly complex. And there are at least some physical controls on the steering wheel and near the screen to cover some of the essentials.

If I’m not mistaken the base model will have a metal roof as standard.

Looks like reservations are full and deliveries start in June (according to the website). I give it a 50/50 shot of getting delayed and them blaming COVID, but still far and above whatever Canoo is doing.

Rivian is 1000x more promising. They actually have a factory, tangible pre-production cars on the road, and a seemingly solid go-to-market strategy.

I have worked as a bus driver as part of a union. Infractions like that are not, in my experience, something they really care about because it takes so many of them before you face any kind of disciplinary action. Far from a “huge nuisance.”

Not sure if serious but... those 10 second cars won’t be nearly as practical or comfortable for daily use, nor will they last very long before needing an engine rebuild.

What? Who is running all the power they can through their car all the time, much less on public roads? Teslas are pretty damn fast. I see lots of them on the road every day. 99.9% of the time they’re being driven at a regular pace just like any other car. They’re not flooring it at every green light, going 100+ mph on…

Had a single one of the people in either vehicle been “tanned”, this would have been fatal.

Given that the EPA testing is also done on a dyno in a controlled environment I see no reason to bet on vastly different figured unless there are some major changes between now and launch.

500+ might be total overkill for most consumers but an industry first like that would really help them distinguish themselves from…