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Joel_Mckay 4 days ago

Solid state LADAR with 8km range and spectroscopic chemical analysis capabilities have been around for decades (mostly CO2 and Nitrate concentration along with 3D point cloud data etc.)

However, the chances anyone will see that technology in a consumer product is very low. These were also never cost effective, and priced several times more than most cars. Additionally, like all optics these couldn't handle excessive dust, rain, direct sunlight, and bug guts.

Most platforms included millimeter Radar for when vision and LIDAR/LADAR optics fail. QNX simply missed its largest market launch window in the 1990s, and is no longer the path forward for a lot of projects. Note "AI" might be real someday (unlikely an LLM), but every hype-cycle needs to run its course. =3