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Okay, well, Tesla was granted a patent on some of the self-driving car technology. But what the patent spotters spotted is that it's kind of a broad patent, which means that other self-driving cars seem like they would likely violate the patent. So here's just sort of generally what the patent claim is. I won't read it all, but it's basically a system with processors that look at objects and use a visual to figure out how to maneuver around, etc. And it makes me wonder, is the reason that Tesla got this patent so that they can have a competitive moat and own the self-driving car world? Or—and this would be actually not surprising—could it be because I think Tesla has a history of giving away their patents or making them available to all? This one's a big one. I mean, this is the patent of all patents. If they can control essentially the idea of training your car with lots of visual images and then using sensors to predict where the other objects are, that's kind of the entire game. So unless somebody uses, I don't know, only lidar or some other technology, which seems unlikely at this point, would they just own the entire category for as long as the patent is on?

Maybe the other possibility is that it's a defensive patent, meaning that the other car companies might intentionally or accidentally be violating this patent, but Tesla could be accidentally violating someone else's patent, because there are so many patents on so many things that you can't make a product like a new self-driving car without almost guaranteed you're violating, you know, a dozen patents you didn't even know existed. And then those patent people can come after you and they can pester you forever. But if they're a car company, you can say, well, would you like to trade patents? And stay out of court. Now, I don't know if this is the