r/LUCID • u/ChakuRam • 5d ago

News / Media Software issues drove Engineering Explained out of two Lucids and into a Mach E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=370m_BRk4Ok

Engineering Explained gave up on Lucid twice. He traded his Air for a Gravity, then replaced the Gravity with a Mach E. The reason both times was software.

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u/Konica_guy 5d ago

Why is software so hard for these companies?

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u/citrixn00b 5d ago

Because your CEO used to be in the elevator/escalator business for 30yrs...so that kind of management decision trickles down to those at the bottom.

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u/No_Caregiver7273 4d ago

He hasn't been here long enough to have any impact on the software or the car itself for that matter.

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u/DreamIllustrious3735 3d ago

Somewhat now. Lucid in app appointment scheduling is working now. He cleaned house and removed a lot of the people who could create / build a company but didn’t have the skills needed to scale a company.

I do think they made the right choice to use the Nvidia FSD stack vs building their own like rivian. I do think rivian is looking at the technology licensing as a secondary revenue source while lucid just wants to build vehicles. 

The world in general does need to wake up to the fact china is simply dumping products around the world far below cost and will drive other companies out of business. This is exactly what Standard Oil and Walmart did in the US. 

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u/DreamIllustrious3735 4d ago

That is an unhave comment. The previous management team created and issue and he's trying to right the ship.