I think the main thing to remember is that the car basically resets every time it goes to sleep. It goes to sleep by you just walking away from it for long enough for it to shut down. Some people believe that it actually goes into a deeper sleep state after a while. Not sure of that.
There are a few different options to make sure that that this sleep state has successfully occurred. One is just to get out of the car, let it lock and wait until the contactors release. If it’s quiet where you are you will actually hear a small click when that occurs. Some people believe in turning on the turn signal just before they exit the car and waiting until it turns itself off, which indicates that the car has gone to sleep. The turn signal itself does not do anything magical, it just lets you know that you have gotten past the amount of time you need to wait.
Other folks like to lock the car and force it to go to sleep using the key card. This has been my preferred way since I routinely use the mobile key and I don’t have a fob in my pocket (fob schmob) with a button on it to lock the car. When you do that, it temporary turns off proximity sensing so it won’t unlock if you’re standing right there with the fob or mobile key. Some have said we should wait some time, up to 20 minutes, for it to sleep a bit. I’m not 100% sure if that does anything so my wait time depends on how anxious I am to get going. That’s really it.
The other reset you may have heard about is what we are calling the ‘nuclear reset.’ That’s a certain button press sequence, but it is not recommended by Lucid because it has a tendency to erase logs and may cause other problems. If you’re resetting the car, usually it is because of an issue and they would like to see those logs. Therefore, I do not recommend you ever do that unless it is specifically recommended by customer service.
But here’s the interesting thing about all of this, I have not had to do any resets on my car other than it doing it by itself when I get out and go inside my house, for some time now. Lucid has been excellent about squashing bugs that used to require us to do resets more frequently. I shouldn’t say this out loud, but my car is been rock solid now for a while. I think this whole need to reset is quickly becoming much more seldom.