Consumers demand Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for smartphones, and the brand new screens wrap across the sprint and driver completely; they’re skinny and crisp, with snappy responses to swipes and pokes of the finger.
But an augmented actuality HUD on the windshield, mindfulness meditation teaching inbuilt, and obtainable productiveness apps now match into the equation, too. With the rear seats mendacity down flat, off-road and tenting within the again, do I actually need movies and soundtracks of waves and desertscapes—whereas I’m out in nature watching real-life waves or desertscapes?
There’s loads of tech within the Gravity, however you possibly can flip most of it off in digital detox mode.
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I appreciated the digital detox mode, which turns off all readouts apart from essentially the most fundamental driving info. Adjusting to the brand new touchpads on the steering wheel may also require a bit extra time than a single morning with the Gravity. I used them to regulate my steering wheel, mirrors, and the infotainment quantity, however the Air’s textural metallic dials had been one in every of my highlights of the inside. At least Lucid’s resolution gives way more satisfying textures (and appears) than Mercedes-Benz’s capacitive piano black plastic.
The digital complexity, paired with nice vary and efficiency and inside utility and off-road functionality, does current a problem that Lucid acknowledges: how greatest to introduce potential customers to every little thing the Gravity can do, all from a showroom ground? To that finish, the Gravity makes use of a nifty little demo video, artfully produced with transitions between touchscreens and widgets and tutorials. But if we want that type of clarification for a automobile that efficiently unifies previously opposed ideas, perhaps the listing of considerate options has merely grown too lengthy and complicated.
Lucid wanted this SUV
The easy truth stays that the Gravity SUV is what Lucid wanted all alongside. Launching a brand new automotive model with a four-door sedan, even one as spectacular because the Air, merely lacked a sure stage of promoting punch as a result of so few customers truly purchase sedans. Of course, Lucid additionally wanted to ramp up manufacturing capabilities at Casa Grande to satisfy eventual demand for a extra well-liked SUV, so maybe beginning sluggish match into the plan from the soar.
