In China, demand for ‘Navigation On Autopilot’—NOA—has become a key driver of the automotive lidar market. That’s because of lidar’s unique high-resolution capability in urban environments. It’s a bit ironic the function is called as it is, for ‘Autopilot’ is Tesla’s marketing name—deemed misleading by regulators around the world—for a camera-only, no-lidar L2 driver-assist suite…