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Overbom

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It's possible that full self-driving can be achieved just with cameras.
But it's also possible that it can't.

Given that LIDARs are less than $1000 now, you might as well add them as it will help with self-driving.
Full self driving (Level 5) with only cameras won't happen. You need an extra sensor suite running simultaneously in parallel to account for any faults/errors/malfunction/artifacts/etc.
Visual spectrum sensors are just too prone on making errors to be exclusively relied upon to achieve Level 5 self driving

No sane regulator on planet Earth will allow full self driving cars which are only equipped with cameras for the foreseeable future. Having LiDAR and cameras is the bare minimum
 

iioklwwelo

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Turkey has world class infrastructure. People like Bill Gates and so many others do vacation there. They also can manage complex engineering operations and physical products. but they have leadership that is emotional and dont understand priorities. for example They wasted decades on drones and light attack helicopters (which they should have continued bought from Israel and Italy) but not iota of investment building Civil airline industry.
They keep expanding size of Turkish airline without any plan how to deal with dependency on West. because when the primary driver of employment that is connected to Tourism is depended on foreign engineering it creates pressure points that impact decisions.


Not feasible.

Much more meaningful for Turkey to pursue simpler, smaller, attainable objectives by borrowing technology and knowledge from Italy or even tiny Israel for their attack helis or drones.

It took entire EU to band together to form a counterpart to Boeing and even then a good chunk of part suppliers still reside in the USA, while others reside in the EU. Japan, a slightly bigger and more advanced country, has been unable to kickstart any civilian or military avation industry in a meaningful manner. Either because they are prohibited from doing so as an occupied country or they struggle with aerospace as they are not good at it.

Whatever the case, it's not feasible for a small or medium sized country like Iran, Turkey, Egypt or others to start a civilian aerospace industry entirely self sufficient on their own.
 

iioklwwelo

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Iran isn't big Iraq or big Libya. It has 2x Ukraine population with Afghanistan terrain and Turkey level GDP per capita.

Certain country invading Iran would suffer losses far worse than Russia invading Ukraine.

Interesting.
Why do you think GDP or GDP per capita matters for a military that much?

I don't think Indonesia can be considered militarily stronger than Pakistan or North Korea. Weaker countries such as Iran and Turkey might also be considerably stronger than Indonesia's mostly nonexistent military.

Yet Indonesia's GDP by all means surpasses those of Iran, Turkey, Pakistan or North Korea.

Japanese or German GDP are larger than Russia's.
It's not Russia that occupied by US troops, it's Japan/Germany that are occupied.
 

iioklwwelo

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Turkey trade deficit now $10b a month despite record inflation and devaluation. if Biden visit Middleast and not visit Turkey than Erdo will throw real tantrums. and seem US presidents are ignoring him as unimportant. his Germanic connection are not working.
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I don't get it. Why do they always suffer trade deficits despite record devaluation of their currency and cheaper labour cost.

It seems that inability to produce higher end goods and services is holding them back. East Asian countries except North Korea all continue to earn good surpluses in their trade or current accounts without much oil/gas/resource exports either.

Funny thing is when Turks have to invent new index called trade balance excluding energy to make their deficit look more appetizing.

Worse yet, ASEAN countries /middle income countries can also earn good surpluses for last year after covid.

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Overbom

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I don't get it. Why do they always suffer trade deficits despite record devaluation of their currency and cheaper labour cost.

It seems that inability to produce higher end goods and services is holding them back. East Asian countries except North Korea all continue to earn good surpluses in their trade or current accounts without much oil/gas/resource exports either.

Funny thing is when Turks have to invent new index called trade balance excluding energy to make their deficit look more appetizing.

Worse yet, ASEAN countries /middle income countries can also earn good surpluses for last year after covid.

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You need time to build new factories and increase production. I think a more accurate way of seeing such things is by drawing conclusions over a span of 3 years.
 

Overbom

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He isn't wrong. After a short covid lockdown nap, the awakened Chinese industrial dragon is now going to annihilate any kind of German Industry remaining.

The moment you lose a customer to a Chinese competitor, that's it, you are done. You are never getting him back again. Things will get ugly for German industrial companies in the following months
 
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