> Why? If you can buy driverless cars from, say, GM, what do the strategic patents get you? Royalties, most likely. Discounts on cars in exchange for licenses.

> Why? If you can buy driverless cars from, say, GM, what do the strategic patents get you? Royalties, most likely. Discounts on cars in exchange for licenses. Maybe something to auction off during the bankruptcy process so that investors get a fraction of their money back. Patents can be the most valuable thing a company has. Google pretty much wound up scooping the patents out of Motorola and selling the rest (you know, the thousands of smart people and hardware and history) for a discount.