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 37 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.