Rearview Camera Image May Not Display/FMVSS 111

Affected vehicles (1)

Component / system

Defect

Lucid USA, Inc. (Lucid) is recalling certain 2022-2025 Air vehicles operating a software version prior to 2.8.0. The lower console display may fail to show a rearview camera image or may show a delayed, inaccurate image of what is behind the vehicle. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 111, "Rear Visibility."

Risk / consequence

A rearview image that does not appear or fails to accurately depict behind the vehicle increases the risk of a crash.

Remedy

Lucid has released an over-the-air (OTA) software update, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 3, 2025. Owners may contact Lucid at 1-888-995-8243. Lucid's number for this recall is SR-25-04-0. The information in your report suggests that Lucid may have been aware of this issue more than five business days before filing a report with NHTSA. Please be reminded that under Federal law, this agency is to be notified of all safety defect and/or noncompliance decisions within five business days. 49 CFR 573.6 Significant civil penalties can be assessed for this violation.

Chronology of events

1. April 2025

   April 2025, these rearview issues were brought before Lucid’s Product Safety Working Group (PSWG). The PSWG investigated the lagging screen and blank screen issues from April 2025 through September 2025 to determine the severity and frequency of each issue. Through September, Lucid identified 139 instances or complaints of blank screens and 29 instances or complaints of lagging images. While the PSWG was investigating the rearview image issues, Lucid's Digital organization proceeded to develop software fixes to improve several issues with the performance of the monitors in the Lucid Air, including the rearview image issues. One such software update was issued as OTA 2.7.1 on July 8, 2025. After the release of that OTA, Lucid also began developing the software update that would be released as OTA 2.8.0. For the camera error message, the root cause was an issue that caused the camera to enter into a faulted state when frame rates dropped below a specified threshold. Lucid sent an over-the-air software update on August 5, 2025 (version 2.8.0) that implemented a debounce timer that helps to ensure that camera systems do not enter fail-safe modes unnecessarily due to brief frame rate drops. While the PSWG was continuing to analyze the severity and frequency of the lagging screen and blank screen issues Lucid monitored claims after the software update to determine whether the issue was still present. Lucid had no claims that were attributable to the issue for vehicles equipped with software version 2.8.0. For the lag issue, Lucid was able to reproduce the issue in some of the alleged cases, but Lucid was unable to reproduce the issue in the other alleged vehicles examined. Because Lucid was unable to reproduce the concern in all alleged vehicles, Lucid has not yet determined a root cause. Lucid also conducted additional testing as part of its investigation and identified concerns with the real-time transport protocol packet delivery and/or processing delay within the viewing app pipelines on vehicles equipped with CCCv1 and AD02, and developed a software update to address those concerns, which was included in software version 2.7.1. There have been no reported issues in vehicles that have updated to version 2.7.1 or later. Software version 2.8.0 is the most recent version of software and incorporates the 2.7.1 software that improves performance on camera loads. The PSWG referred these rear view monitor issues to the Product Safety Executive Council (PSEC). On

2. Sep 30, 2025

   September 30, 2025, the PSEC determined that the blank screen with a warning represents a non- compliance with FMVSS 111 and that the lagging video issue poses an unreasonable risk to safety. At the time the 573 Report was filed, 21,454 Lucid Air customers had already updated their software to the Remedy Version or later.

Notification schedule

Dealer notification

No Dealers

Owner notification

Dec 05, 2025 - Dec 05, 2025 Phased Recall

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