“The future ain’t what it used to be.”

-Yogi Berra

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  • Such a weird framing. Can it really be targeting when the broader “manufacturing West” basically self sabatoged from 2010 onward when it comes to batteries and electrification?

    It’s not so much China “targeting dominance”, it’s that theyre walking in an open lane which western countries ceded decades ago. And it’s a lane paying crazy dividends. Dividends which were obvious 60 years ago.

    This is mostly just western countries refusing to do anything material to shift from petroleum economies.




  • Yeah thats unsurprising. SPL has been rolling out in the US for a while and usually gets sold for very wide area collects at low density, simply because you can fly so much higher. I’m not sure it really found its footing there, considering how much better/ cheaper other technologies coming from multicamera systems like vexcels have come, simply because lidar can rarely compete on price.

    I did a pepsi challenge using a few systems a couple years back. I think we had full waveform, SPL, and then some leica system in the mix. SPL was the loser, but in that context. It makes total sense if you need to map over a long distance but small area, fairly cheaply/ efficiently.