Es un diseño llamativo, y Lucid afirma que recorrerá 400 millas en una carga y le permitirá lanzarlo desde un puente con sus 1000 insanos electro-caballos de fuerza.
Pero creo que la verdadera cosa revolucionaria que han hecho es resucitar los faros que desaparecen.
Before a more careful approach to aerodynamics made us realize that pop-up headlights were effectively speed brakes, they were once a staple of sports car design.
Everything from the Opel GT to the MR2 to the Fiero to the Corvette to the Miata once drove around with their eyes closed, and watching a pair of hidden headlights pop up was always a treat.
For a while in the 1970s, we got so crazy with covered headlights that we were even sticking them on family cars and freaking upholstering them, because we had a real problem.
Covered and pop-up headlights have been effectively dead for a couple decades now, though, both because they don’t work in the wind-tunnel tested designs of modern cars and may not meet pedestrian safety standards.
What Lucid has done is to take a page from the old Citroën SM and maybe a hint from modern Acura and cram a whole mess of small lights behind some glass.
The outer glass provides the aerodynamic profile needed, and the many little lights combine to provide the illumination needed.
Lucid’s innovation was realizing that they could have some fun inside the glass, and not just let a bunch of little lights sit there; they could hide and show the lights at will, because life is for the living.
You can see their lights in action in this promo video for them, which is unbearable in pretty much every other context:
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