Apart from Tesla, companies are aligning with lidar companies to improve safety in advanced driving technology and position for the seemingly inevitable age of fully autonomous driving. German auto maker Mercedes-Benz has teamed up with Luminar to use its sensors recently, following what to date has been the largest contract in the lidar space when General Motors decided to use the lidar products of Cepton (NASDAQ: CPTN), a company now public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company (aka "SPAC") Growth Capital Acquisition Corp.