Lucid told automotive reviewer Kyle Conner that resetting his loaned 2027 model year Gravity would fix its driver assistance, he said on Tuesday, after posting that the SUV had “woke up drunk.”
The vehicle is a Gravity Grand Touring that Lucid lent to Out of Spec for a long-term test when Conner collected it at the company’s Newark, California headquarters on July 29.
The company, backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), has loaned a Gravity SUV to other car reviewers in recent months.
YouTuber Kim Java said in August that Lucid offered her a 2027 Gravity Grand Touring from a fleet of press vehicles, to keep for “anywhere from like six months to a year.”
The founder of Out of Spec Reviews wrote on X that “Our Gravity woke up drunk today,” while attaching a video filmed on a highway while using the lane changing feature.
“@LucidMotors really needs to work on ADAS as a high priority,” he added.
About six hours after it went up, the post had drawn over 700 likes and had been viewed more than 57,000 times, according to X’s counters.
“Lucid reached out to me and said if we reset the Gravity it’ll fix the problem,” Conner wrote nearly five hours after the original post. “We’ll do that and try again on the way back home from Charlotte,” he added.
Lucid has not responded publicly to Conner’s post.
The account did announce Air UX 3.0, an infotainment overhaul “inspired by the award-winning, human-centered experience of Lucid Gravity,” just over three hours after Conner’s post.
EV had reported earlier on Tuesday that the first Air sedans started receiving the new software update.
A Loaned Gravity
Conner has previously said that he specified the loaned Gravity with the full driver-assistance package, the Dynamic Handling Pack, range wheels, and the upgraded sound system.
Tuesday’s post is the second time in two months that the vehicle’s driver assistance has misbehaved in public.
In August, Conner reported that a bug tied to eye tracking kept hands-free driving from engaging on his car and “a few cars,” and that lane centering “decided to go haywire” on a drive into Aspen, Colorado.
Leaving the vehicle to sleep overnight cleared the lane-centering fault.
“After letting the car go to sleep – it’s now well rested and working great again. Just Lucid things I guess,” he wrote at the time.
Lucid then fixed the hands-free bug in software update 3.6.4.
“Lucid Hands-free highway assist has been working great since this update,” Conner wrote on August 11.
“Matrix headlights (ADB), hands-free highway assist with auto lane change, and a much improved sound system from Air make the Gravity a great choice for my commute home tonight,” he wrote on August 23.
Hands-Free Feature
Hands-free driving reached the Gravity only in June, when Lucid rolled out UX 3.6 with Hands-Free Drive Assist and Hands-Free Lane Change Assist for cars fitted with DreamDrive 2 Pro in North America.
The same week, Senior VP of Engineering and Software Emad Dlala left the company after nearly 11 years.
“Emad Dlala has elected to leave the company to pursue other opportunities. We thank Emad for his many contributions over the years and wish him continued success in his future endeavors. Lucid remains focused on streamlining our organization and processes to fully leverage the strength of our team and will communicate further actions soon,” the company said in a statement on June 9.
Vaibhav Chadha, Lucid’s Manager of ADAS/AD Sensing and Lighting Electronics, left for Apple the following week.
Munro Live, which also tested a Gravity lent by Lucid, said in August that the hands-free system “worked well” for the most part but hesitated to change lanes in heavy traffic and at times disengaged on its own.
Pros and Cons
Conner has praised the Gravity’s hardware since its launch, while criticising its software.
Out of Spec‘s December 2025 long-term review was titled “Lucid Gravity 5,000 Mile Review! The Best Driving SUV Crippled By Software Annoyances.”
After Lucid’s UX 3.4.0 update rolled out at the turn of February, he wrote that it “seems to have squashed almost all of the Gravity software bugs,” and Dlala told him in an interview that it had resolved “90% — or even close to 95%” of known issues.
He has also argued that Lucid should not charge extra for basic driver assistance, writing when the Gravity configurator opened in November 2024: “No lane centering as standard?”
Speculating in July on the timing of Lucid’s upcoming Cosmos midsize SUV, he wrote that he did not think the company wanted “another Gravity buggy launch situation.”
