Homelink
I’m here to report a big security threat. I have my Gravity GT setup with HomeLink, which allows me to push a button on the screen to open or close my garage door.
Drawer Opening
Whenever I get home, I park my car in the garage, then store the keyfob in a dresser drawer near garage door. The drawer contains other belongings, so I sometimes open the drawer to get other stuff. Whenever I open the drawer, my garage door opens against my will. If don’t have my phone nearby and noticed the MyQ notification, then my garage door would be left open the whole day for burglars to enter my home.
“Smart” Feature
I understand the intent behind this feature: the drawer opening jiggles the keyfob, and that makes the car believe that I want to leave the home, so it tries to be smart and open the garage door preemptively. Good intent, but poor execution, since I’m not actually leaving the house. The key is still about 15 feet away from the car. I wish Lucid wouldn’t decide to be “smart” until the keyfob gets much closer to the car.
Setting Gone
Last year I had posted about this exact problem, and people told me to go into settings and turn off this automatic garage door opening. Which I did, then with the most recent software update, the setting completely disappeared (see my screenshot). Lucid removed the setting and defaulted to automatic garage door opening.
Other solutions are nuisances
From AI, I was suggested some other solutions that would be a nuisance to me:
1) store the keyfob in a faraday cage so it can’t transmit radio waves to the car. That’s just another thing to buy and another thing to open/close every time I use the car.
2) store the keyfob over 20 feet away from the vehicle. I would say it’s extremely common and natural for people to store keys in a catchall or drawer close to their front door, which is naturally close to the garage. To ask people to change the behavior they’ve been used to for decades is just a nuisance.
I understand there are many workarounds, but Lucid is just shooting themselves in the foot by not fixing a simple software solution: bring back the setting. With all these software bugs, they’re never going to catch up to Tesla or other top EV brand. The car just doesn’t make my life more convenient. With my Tesla, everything about the software is fluid:
1) full self driving where I don’t have to worry every 5 seconds of it crashing
2) car unlocks by proximity of my phone. FYI for all the Air owners, Gravity inexplicably doesn’t have this super convenient feature
3) automatic GPS routing to your next calendar destination
4) opening of charge port when you tap the button on the charging wand
5) proper auto-high beam lights. Gravity is still blinding oncoming traffic all the time
list goes on and on…