Same experience here. I hope they can hear me tell, "Hey Lucid" how stupid it is sometimes with multiple expletives. I count on my GPS and phone and Alexa to keep my schedule, get me where I am going and to safely allow hands free operation. I have a long commute both ways each day and my car is my home for many hours a day and I have strived to get technology that is useful and either makes my car time safer, more productive or easier to manage. Since Lucid corporate came and STOLE my Alexa functionality after I had paid for IT!!!, I would have hoped the least they could do is to provide a serviceable replacement. That, they have NOT done. This home-grown 1990's level gadget gets what I say wrong about 30-40% of the time-Alexa virtually never does (nor does Google for that matter). I have an Android Galaxy S23 phone, and I cannot make any calls by voice and have to manually look up contacts and then hit dial, since the car has the contacts but stupid "hey Lucid" apparently can't see them. It is slow and doesn't connect to anything well. I seem to get music from Tidal when I ask for music, and I don't always want to use Tidal. It doesn't seem to understand TuneIn at all and plays a song whenever I ask for a TuneIn channel like CNBC. I have the most expensive car of most I know and while they love the looks and the handling/acceleration of it, they kind of giggle when they see my wired Amazon set up or hear me try to converse with Hey Lucid. I paid for better tech than this!!!!!
As to those who say Amazon Echo Auto is "the same thing", I beg to differ. If I wanted to use my phone and other gadgets for everything, I would have paid less for a less techy car. Oh wait, ther are no "less technology advance cars because every Kia and Hyundai and GMC/Ford, etc. do everything my car does and no wires and no complaints!! Also, if you want Amazon auto-get it quick because it seems they are out of stock everywhere and I suspect they are discontinued. However, I did find one and I find it incredibly annoying. My center console is home to a lot of things including a charging cord for my phone and a separate one for my watch. Now, I have the Amazon Echo wires on top of everything and since the main piece attaches magnetically to a holder, it often falls off as I rummage through my center console for something. I hate it! I hate that I need another device sticking out of my console which I now can't shut. I am shocked at how little "Hey Lucid" seems to be able to do (at least of the things I would like it do, but I guess it doesn't matter that much because it so often doesn't understand what I say anyway. I am bewildered by how difficult it is to find a GPS location or hear a song because the voice recognition sucks. I can't believe with the level of maturity of Siri, Alexa and Hey Google, that Lucid thought they could just put together a little "quickie" themselves. Whether that is true or not, it feels very unfinished and has made my expensive car far less safe and now I have wires like the we had when GPS's that were not built in and you always had wires running from the dash. "Hey Lucid" 1990 is missing you!
