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An Autonomous Car for Consumers? Lucid Says It's Happening.

posted by jelizondo on Wednesday October 29, @11:34AM   
from the dystopian-science dept.

Freeman writes:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/an-autonomous-car-for-consumers-lucid-says-its-happening/

Is it possible to be a CEO in 2025 and not catch a case of AI fever? The latest company to catch this particular cold is Lucid, the Saudi-backed electric vehicle startup. Today, it announced a new collaboration with Nvidia to use the latter's hardware and software, with the aim of creating an autonomous vehicle for consumers. Oh, and the AI will apparently design Lucid's production lines.

Formed by refugees from Tesla who saw a chance to improve on their past work, Lucid has already built the most efficient EV on sale in North America.
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"We've already set the benchmark in core EV attributes with proprietary technology that results in unmatched range, efficiency, space, performance, and handling," said interim CEO Marc Winterhoff. "Now, we're taking the next step by combining cutting-edge AI with Lucid's engineering excellence to deliver the smartest and safest autonomous vehicles on the road. Partnering with Nvidia, we're proud to continue powering American innovation leadership in the global quest for autonomous mobility," Winterhoff said.
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Car buyers are starting to cotton on to driver assists like General Motors' Super Cruise, which about 40 percent of customers choose to pay for after the three-year free trial ends, and Lucid must be hoping that offering a far more advanced system, which won't require the human to pay any attention while it is engaged, will help it earn plenty of money.
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Nvidia's industrial platform will let Lucid create its production lines digitally first before committing them to actual hardware. "By modeling autonomous systems, Lucid can optimize robot path planning, improve safety, and shorten commissioning time," Lucid said.

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• Re:Yeah... No.(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday October 31, @07:45PM

  by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Friday October 31, @07:45PM (#1422936) Homepage Journal

  They have been pretty well threshed out and proven not to work reliably enough.

  Ah, now I understand: youth. If you were born in this century you haven't lived long enough to see the march of technological progress. No, they don't work reliably enough... NOW. But twenty five years ago, cruise control only kept your car at a single given speed unless you corrected it manually, and didn't follow lanes. The 20th century cars' cruise control would rear end someone if you let it.

  20th century SF writers made the same mistake as yours, having worldwide starvation by the year 2000 because of overpopulation; an example is Kurt Vonnegut's 2BR02B. [mcgrewbooks.com]

  Would you like to go back to the good old days, when the population of the Earth was twenty billion about to become forty billion, then eighty billion, then one hundred and sixty billion? Do you know what a drupelet is, Mr. Wehling? said Hitz.

  Nope, said Wehling sulkily.

  A drupelet, Mr. Wehling, is one of the little knobs, one of the little pulpy grains of a blackberry, said Dr. Hitz. Without population control, human beings would now be packed on this surface of this old planet like drupelets on a blackberry! Think of it!

  Wehling continued to stare at the same spot on the wall.

  In the year 2000, said Dr. Hitz, before scientists stepped in and laid down the law, there wasn t even enough drinking water to go around, and nothing to eat but sea-weed and still people insisted on their right to reproduce like jackrabbits. And their right, if possible, to live forever.

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  When masked police can stop you on the street and demand that you prove citizenship, your nation is a POLICE STATE

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