Comment by toss1

>> if there's no pulses the charge pump with "go flat" after about a second and drop the solenoid out.

>> Do the same thing. If a sensor at the edge of the LIDAR's scan misses a scan, kill the beam.

Sounds like a great plan, but I question the "about a second" timing; the GP post calculates that "about a second" is between 4X and 10X the time required to cause damage. So, how fast do these things scan/cycle across their field of view? Could this be solved by speeding up the cycle, or would that overly compromise the image? Change the scan pattern, or insert more check-points in the pattern?