On the road with Lucid’s new Gravity SUV

Prospects demand Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for smartphones, and the model new screens wrap throughout the dash and driver fully; they’re skinny and crisp, with snappy responses to swipes and pokes of the finger.

Nonetheless an augmented actuality HUD on the windshield, mindfulness meditation educating inbuilt, and on the market productiveness apps now match into the equation, too. With the rear seats lying down flat, off-road and tenting inside the once more, do I really need films and soundtracks of waves and desertscapes—whereas I’m out in nature watching real-life waves or desertscapes?

There’s a number of tech inside the Gravity, nonetheless you presumably 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 except for primarily essentially the most main driving information. Adjusting to the model new touchpads on the steering wheel could even require a bit further time than a single morning with the Gravity. I used them to control my steering wheel, mirrors, and the infotainment amount, nonetheless the Air’s textural metal dials had been one amongst my highlights of the within. A minimum of Lucid’s decision provides way more satisfying textures (and seems) than Mercedes-Benz’s capacitive piano black plastic.

The digital complexity, paired with good differ and effectivity and inside utility and off-road performance, does present an issue that Lucid acknowledges: how most interesting to introduce potential clients to all of the items the Gravity can do, all from a showroom floor? To that end, the Gravity makes use of a nifty little demo video, artfully produced with transitions between touchscreens and widgets and tutorials. However once we need that form of rationalization for a automotive that effectively unifies beforehand opposed concepts, presumably the guidelines of thoughtful choices has merely grown too prolonged and complex.

Lucid needed this SUV

The easy fact stays that the Gravity SUV is what Lucid needed all alongside. Launching a model new automotive mannequin with a four-door sedan, even one as spectacular as a result of the Air, merely lacked a positive stage of selling punch on account of so few clients actually buy sedans. In reality, Lucid moreover needed to ramp up manufacturing capabilities at Casa Grande to fulfill eventual demand for a further widespread SUV, so perhaps starting sluggish match into the plan from the bounce.