Last month, Tesla CEO Elon Musk once again talked about Tesla's autopilot information at the fourth quarter of 2021 earnings meeting, and Musk said that Tesla is confident that it will achieve full self-driving within 2022
On January 30, Musk also said on the social platform that Tesla's FSD (fully autonomous driving function) will be opened to other car companies in the future!
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In addition, Musk has also said that Tesla will publish all its patents for free, and anyone who wants Tesla to use self-driving research and development technology out of goodwill will not launch a patent infringement lawsuit against tesla ~ because when innovation is so fast, patents become meaningless, and what really matters is the speed of innovation!
If Musk develops the technology to other car companies, this also means that more car companies can be encouraged to use this technology, of course, the cost may also need to be borne by other brands and consumers, and at present, Tesla charges car owners who subscribe to FSD for $12,000 (64,000 yuan in China), while users in North America can subscribe on a monthly basis, with a monthly rental fee of $199!
As for why Musk chose to open to other car companies? Musk said that in fact, it is quite difficult to develop the FSD function, and it may take five years or even longer for any company to develop and implement this function
It would be a really cool thing if other automakers could get permission and use Tesla's self-driving technology, but given the high cost of developing the system, Tesla would charge a fee for it!
Secondly, for other automakers, Musk believes that the cost of developing automatic autopilot technology is too high, using the technology developed by Tesla, one can greatly reduce the development cost, the other is to quickly deploy the autopilot system, and Tesla's autopilot system is very advanced, may be 300% higher than the conventional manual driving safety
This isn't the first time Musk has proposed a technology-sharing plan, as a few weeks ago, Tesla announced that it would offer a supercharging network for non-Tesla models for the first time this year
For Tesla's generous practice of sharing technology, some people think that Tesla belongs to the "long-term fishing for big fish", there is a certain "utilitarianism", such as frank sharing technology can achieve marketing gimmicks and can also be like the previous Android system, form a monopoly, and then charge, and finally profit ~
Some people also think that Musk is a great move to do this, and the initiative to share technology can make human beings make great contributions in the field of intelligent new energy vehicles!
Although Tesla's self-driving technology has still been controversial in recent years, there is no doubt that in the future, when FSD finally reaches its full potential, it will make driving safer than ever, and through mature open source software, the software contains more and more complete real data, greatly improving the security of the system
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