Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla is at the moment in ‘early’ dialogue to license its self-driving expertise with a ‘main’ automaker.

On the finish of his opening remarks for Tesla’s Q2 2022 earnings name following the discharge of the automaker monetary outcomes, CEO Elon Musk stated that he wished to “strongly emphasize” that Tesla is open to licensing its self-driving expertise to different automakers.

That’s one thing that the CEO has been mentioning these days.

However this time, Musk talked about that Tesla is at the moment in “early talks” with a “main OEM” about licensing its Autopilot/Full Self-Driving package deal.

OEM refers to authentic gear producers, which within the auto business means the automakers.

Integrating Tesla’s self-driving expertise into one other automaker’s automobiles could be fairly a process because it requires integrating a number of cameras throughout the automobiles at particular angles and Tesla’s self-driving pc.

The camera-based technique can also be very totally different than most different automakers who’ve been counting on totally different sensors, like lidar.

Most different automakers even have a really totally different strategy by having purpose-built automobiles for autonomy, like GM’s Cruise, whereas their client automobiles are restricted to degree 2 or 3 autonomous options.

Then again, Tesla believes that its strategy goes to allow degree 4 or 5 autonomy on client automobiles via software program replace, nevertheless it has but to ship on this.

Electrek’s Take

This isn’t too shocking contemplating Tesla’s communication channels with different automakers are greater than ever thanks via its many new Supercharger partnership.

It’s simple to think about that amid these talks, Tesla began to promote them on its Autopilot/Self-Driving expertise too.

Nevertheless it’s a troublesome promote with years of missed deadlines. On the identical time, there are a lot of automakers which might be far behind relating to autonomous driving and it’d make sense for them to accomplice with Tesla as an alternative of being left behind.

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