Irony? Filing taxes is a government-imposed obligation for many Americans. Accessing content from a private company is neither an obligation nor a right.
So the benefit is strictly in slow-moving traffic?
And it's never occurred to me that steering wheel torque is an issue. And so many of these processes -- lane centering, not bumping into the car ahead of me -- are subconscious for me at this point, but I've been driving for decades.
May I ask how good is the technology that notices when someone is distracted and forces them to attend to the road?
You got the core facts wrong -- Tesla will, in fact, continue to patent their technology. They need to to protect themselves from others.
What Musk did say is, "Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology."
Furthermore he said, "We believe that applying the open source philosophy to our patents will strengthen rather than diminish Tesla’s position in this regard."
And given that this was posted 3.5 years ago, how about "announced" rather than "announces"?