It's written by Brad Templeton, a professional writer and consultant on self-driving vehicles since 2007. He owns 21 patents on self-driving vehicle technology.
Then it might make sense for him to declare how much he gets from the patent licenses or if Tesla itself licenses any of the patents, because those are possible conflicts of interest.
My comment wasn’t so much about this particular author as it was a comment on the general motivations of people who write on the Forbes contributor platform.
In this case the author bills themselves as a consultant on self driving cars so given the venue of publication one has to wonder whether they were paid to write this. Writing under the Forbes contributor by line is an extremely questionable choice in any case.