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Lucid lets shoppers customize cars like a video game character

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7 pointsjacquesm9 comments

Reading this article makes my head hurt. Has this techcrunch writer never been to a car website before or played an RPG? There is nothing special about the LUCID car builder. If you say something like "like a video game character" I'd expect something nuts like being able to adjust body panels or the height or specific colors for specific areas. You know, like how you can in video games.

I don't know, I make games for a living and I'd probably describe it that way. I got major NFSU vibes from it.

I haven't seen any 3D configuration tools for cars, but I haven't been looking either. What other brands do it like this?

Which isn't to defend the site. I went in to it wanting to be excited by it, but found the experience to be poor.

I think my favorite is by Genesis. There are a few others with 3D models. The only point I was making is LUCID isn't the first to do it and so it's not nearly as special as the article made it out to be.

Give me an option to put graphics, underglow, and a sweet body kit on my next car then I'll agree it's like a NFS game :)

Oh wow, Genesis is very similar, and much better done. You're totally right that this isn't special.

I think the Lucid environment and models are much higher detail, but that's probably the reason why Genesis runs in the browser and Lucid is streamed as video. And the streaming makes the experience awful.

My guess for what happened is the team built a demo for fancy VR sales kiosks that run a 2080 Ti, and porting it to the web was an afterthought.

Given that the CEO is also the CTO, and the page is an important part of the sales process, I'd go as far as to consider it a minor red flag.

They should put underglow options behind the Kanomi code :)

Agreed on the streaming issue. Especially noticeable on a phone. Genesis vs Lucid is night and day. Lucid is a big lag fest.

You know if someone actually used the Konami code on a car builder for an easter egg like that it'd totally sway my purchasing decision even if it was just for fun.

Honestly. It really seems like the Tesla hype bubble has melted people's brains. Now every new company that comes out of nowhere with nothing more than a prototype is hailed as the next leap of innovation.

Quite cool, but not sure, it's not very performant for me and blurry on 4K monitor.

I like Porsche's configurator alot more, and there's probably a handful other brands which do the same.

https://cc.porsche.com/icc/ccCall.do?rt=1599986692&screen=25...

It appears to be rendered on a good GPU, and streamed over as video. They should really consider doing it in WebGL with static images if they detect the graphics card is not capable.

I can I'd be impressed with the experience if it were rendering locally (on a 4k monitor with a 2070), but in its current state it is just not good.

Cars are dumb. There’s no better car than a 3-year-old used corolla/Prius/soul/fit/Mazda3/versa/civic/etc.

Any sort of electric car won’t touch these cars’ pure economic advantage for probably a decade if not longer or ever.

I don’t really care how good the buying experience is. The best buying experience is the one that doesn’t charge me more than $10,000-15,000 for a reliable form of transportation.

Funny how we didn’t even know who Lucid was until this week. Then again, I don’t have to know who they are to know who they are: an off-brand Tesla knock-off.

Electric cars are cool but they aren’t the solution to the mistake of automobile-based suburban-style development.

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