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None of this technology is new. It's been done to death as terrain following guidance systems for cruise missiles, now reapplied in a civilian context.

It's technology that already exists, but must be reinvented in a non-military context from scratch, since the tech transfer between weapons systems and civilian applications is likely locked up in policy. So, we know that this technology exists, and is proven, but we have to reinvent the wheel, because reasons.

The reason we see this interminable slow motion public struggle to bring it to consumer applications, is likely because there are no controls in place that can actually prevent "contemporaneous discovery" wink, wink.