After the doubtless industry-shaking deal between Tesla and Ford on entry to the Supercharger community, CEO Elon Musk went on Twitter to say that the Austin-based EV maker can be joyful to license the so-called Autopilot and Full Self-Driving driver help options to different automakers.

Moreover, Tesla’s CEO stated that different expertise developed by the corporate can be open to a licensing settlement.

It’s an attention-grabbing strategy that aligns properly with the American model’s announcement from 2014, when it made all its patents freely obtainable to anybody who, in good religion, needs to make use of its expertise. 9 years in the past, Elon Musk even wrote a weblog put up titled “All Our Patent Are Belong To You,” by which he defined how making use of an open-source philosophy to Tesla’s patents would put “a standard, rapidly-evolving expertise platform” inside attain for different firms making electrical vehicles.

Now, along with his most up-to-date assertion, Elon Musk signifies that Tesla is able to supply its broadly mentioned Autopilot driver help system to different automakers.

“Tesla aspires to be as useful as potential to different automobile firms,” stated the CEO within the Twitter reply embedded under. “We made all our patents freely obtainable a number of years in the past. Now, we’re enabling different firms to make use of our Supercharger community. Additionally joyful to license Autopilot/FSD or different Tesla expertise.”

However whereas Tesla’s supremacy on this planet of EV charging is unquestionable, with the Supercharger community topping the uptime charts yr after yr, it stays to be seen if there will probably be any takers for Autopilot or FSD.

Ford’s announcement that its EVs will characteristic the Tesla-designed NACS connector beginning subsequent yr could have enormous advantages for the Blue Oval firm’s clients, however at the same time as Elon Musk consistently touts Autopilot and FSD to be among the many finest driver help programs, there are arguably comparable and even higher choices on the market.

Ford’s BlueCruise and GM’s Tremendous Cruise are thought to be a few of the best-performing energetic driving help programs, based on Client Stories, so it’s arduous to see why a giant legacy automaker would throw away the thousands and thousands of {dollars} invested in proprietary security programs simply to undertake Tesla’s answer.

Possibly smaller startups would profit extra from this type of deal, however even then they would want cameras and different {hardware} elements to make it work correctly.

With all this being stated, nevertheless, it’s good to see that Tesla is open to extra collaboration with rival firms, even when that could annoy organizations such because the CCS Alliance.

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