Lidar is quickly becoming an enabling feature for the autonomous vehicles market. In fact, many believe lidar is the most important optical technology in the race toward mainstream self-driving cars. But not all self-driving vehicles are fully autonomous. Lidar itself is the differentiating technology between vehicles that are not fully autonomous, and those that are.
Because lidar is so critical to self-driving cars becoming a mainstream reality, nearly every major player in the autonomous vehicles market is incorporating lidar into its vehicles.