Following Tesla's announcement that it will allow competing cars -in this case Ford- to use its Supercharger network, Elon Musk has assured that he is "happy to share the Autopilot/FSD license or other Tesla technology" with other manufacturers.
It is not the first time that Elon Musk has thrown in the blanket and claimed to be willing to share software licenses with the competition, which he has ended up suing for doing so.
Through a tweet, the billionaire has assured that "Tesla aspires to be as useful as possible to other automotive companies." So he sees the next logical step is to sell his technology to others.
But what about others? The big ones have already invested huge sums of money in semi-autonomous driving and have their own systems.
We have, for example, Mercedes-Benz eating the toast in terms of autonomous driving, Tesla in Europe with its Drive Pilot -with an SAE level 3-, General Motors with the Super Cruise expanding in the US, and Ford with the BlueCruise.
The truth is that already in 2014 Tesla announced through a statement that they were opening their patents to open Tesla's intellectual property to others:
"We believe that Tesla, the other companies that make electric vehicles, and the entire world can benefit from a common and rapidly evolving technology platform."
Problem: Tesla only "promised" not to sue any company that uses its patented technology "in good faith." Something that, in the company's opinion, Xiaopeng Motors did not comply with and ended up suing the Chinese brand in 2019 for the alleged code theft.
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