[lasermatts]

I'll answer in reverse order.

Making synthetic data from a 3D model is really nothing too special - it's just a tiny subset of what video game engine does. But there's one extra step required for defect detection: you need to think about where the defects occur (and where the non-defect witness marks occur) and simulate those. Like any startup our biggest advantage here over the big companies is we move fast and customers usually like us. Our second biggest advantage: defect detection just isn't sexy, so it's not top of mind for most folks.

I think yes there probably should be tariffs on Chinese EVs (we're pretty big on on-shore manufacturing) but that's essentially a crutch. We'll need a lot of automation and design work to push down US-made EV cost to be competitive. If we want electrification to increase and onshoring to occur we've gotta bring prices down to something folks can easily buy that solves their problems.

[doctorpangloss]

> We'll need a lot of automation and design work to push down US-made EV cost to be competitive.

What kind of automation and design work would "push down US-made EV costs" more than corresponding automation and design work in China?

Do you see what I mean? Technology doesn't change the relative costs, which matter, even if it changes the absolute costs, which don't.

[michaelmior]

> Do you see what I mean? Technology doesn't change the relative costs, which matter, even if it changes the absolute costs, which don't.

I get what you're saying, and I somewhat agree. But I think it does leave out the desire some consumers have to purchase domestic. For example, I might be willing to buy a domestically made vehicle if the price is under $25K even if it's more than a similar vehicle made overseas. But if the price is over that, I'm going with the cheaper import.