When customer deliveries of the Lucid Air begin in early 2021, Lucid hope to be first to market with the combination of a driver monitoring system and a sensor suite that includes high-resolution lidar.
According to the company, their DreamDrive technology suite supports 19 safety, driving and parking assist features that will be available upon start of production, with another eight features expected later via over-the-air updates. It says additional capabilities are also in development to enable L3 driving in certain conditions.
“We have developed DreamDrive to be among the most advanced ADAS to ever be offered to consumers,” said Dr Eugene Lee, senior director, ADAS and autonomous driving, Lucid Motors. “By prioritizing safety and updatability, Lucid DreamDrive also sets the stage for offering increasingly sophisticated driver assistance features”.
The vehicle has 32 sensors comprising camera, radar and ultrasonic sensors, as well as a long-range, high-resolution lidar placed at the front of the car. Lucid says it also includes an in-car driver monitoring system designed to share relevant information with the driver while ensuring their necessary attention to the driving configuration.
Lucid say it’s the first ADAS built on a high-speed Ethernet ring, which additionally serves as a fully redundant platform for key functions such as steering, brakes and sensors, including redundant independent power sources and communications paths, fail-operational actuators and fault-tolerant computation.