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| ▲ | 05 an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| US companies don't even sell consumer drones, so are they going to stay competitive by forcing consumers to buy $4000 enterprise models for their kids to play with? |
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| ▲ | ACCount37 an hour ago | parent [-] | | Hobbyist drones also don't ship with lidar in stock. The concern isn't China dominating the area of $20 toys. The concern is platforms relevant to industry and military. Whether that, in turn, can be disentangled from "the area of $20 toys" in case of drones is unclear to me. | | |
| ▲ | 05 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | > Hobbyist drones also don't ship with lidar in stock. Is Neo a $20 toy? LIDARs are getting cheap quick, at some point when ToF sensors add $10 to BoM they will be in all drones.. I guess except US only SKUs? Not like you can't get pretty much the same data using just a single camera, GPS+IMU fusion and structure-from-motion.. | |
| ▲ | 0x457 39 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | That is false. DJI Air 3S, Mini 5 Pro, Mavic 4 Pro, and even the Neo 2 are consumer drones that ship with forward-facing LiDAR for obstacle avoidance. FCC proposal doesn’t distinguish that safety sensor from mapping-grade or military LiDAR - it covers any drone that “contains or integrates” LiDAR. If Air and Mini ain't hobbyist grade idk what is. |
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| ▲ | dgellow 34 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| China has been leading in drones since a very long time. It’s not something they took from the US |
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| ▲ | t-writescode 37 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If we cared enough to be effective, we would be subsidizing / encouraging local manufacture of all of those at a competitive, non-luxury price. |
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| ▲ | dgellow 31 minutes ago | parent [-] | | That would need to start with building the manufacturing infrastructure. But that requires to work on long term goals, something the west hasn’t been doing that well over the last 30+ years |
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| ▲ | PunchyHamster an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That isn't stopping them from developing LIDAR in any way Moreover they also have 2 market leaders in that techs |
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| ▲ | georgemcbay 7 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Stopping US import of any of these technologies doesn't suddenly make them disappear. They still exist. You can't "ignore them and they'll go away", this is real life. And as an American citizen I am always hearing how bad it is for China to have a leg up on us in X, Y or Z, and yet our government is the one that is regularly saber rattling (and starting wars over!) the shifting economic realities of the US clearly being an empire in decline. These days we also regularly saber rattle our own "allies" for fuck's sake. Long past time to ask yourself if maybe we're the baddies. |
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| ▲ | anigbrowl 39 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I mean, the rest of the world still exists and is generally happy to buy reasonably priced Chinese tech. American isolationists get rather carried away by geography to the point of assuming the rest of world is in a state of cinematic collapse with a few super enemies stalking the ruins. Trump's comments the other day suggesting he's capable of destroying the Swiss economy overnight demonstrate a sort of socioeconomic myopia predicated on the idea that the US is the only consumer market that matters. |
