FSD to be made available to other auto manufacturers

[Buckminster]

Elon mentioned that this would be possible during AI day.

 

[CLK350]

To put this in context, this was more of an afterthought, to soften his answer from someone asking at the AI day presentation whether Tesla would open source some of the developments they had presented on their Vision AI technology. He thought about it, and said something to the effect (anybody feel free to correct with exact quote) that they had spent a lot of money into this, so not ... but they wouldn't try to use their AI advances against other car makers, in fact would be open to licensing their tech.

Personally I can see how this would be a peripheral distraction for Tesla, *unless* it were to license the whole package to an established third party like Bosch (not likely), Magna, or some other company - they would be dealing with the administrative mess of the other carmakers. While Tesla would provide the full suite of hardware sensors, cameras etc, provide the FSD tech (at different levels of course) and collect /use the shadowing driving data for training Dojo. Still a bit of a headache having to take into account the calibration of non Tesla cars, FUD etc. So more likely in longer term after the post EV reorganization of ICE's has happened.

 

[Buckminster]

Elon mentioned this again at Austin this week.