More Than Money, Tesla Wants FSD Licensing to Provide Validation and Surrender

What made things different this time was that the Tesla CEO said the BEV maker is in early discussions "with a major OEM about using Tesla FSD." If this can be trusted more than everything else Musk says, rest assured that the BEV maker wants more than money from such a deal: it wants validation and surrender. So far, it has worked perfectly for the BEV maker.There's another delicate aspect of licensing FSD: implicitly admitting your team was unable to create anything similar or better. In other words, the idea behind licensing FSD would be to have an inside view of what the American BEV maker has genuinely achieved. He also stated in 2016 that Tesla vehicles had all the hardware they would need for full autonomy with HW2.5.