Not so much. Making it available allows OpenAI to evaluate and iterate on the chatbot layer, which has had much less data and engineering invested.

You equate lack of ubiquitous self driving cars with lack of progress in self-driving technology, but even if we've had super-linear progress in terms of self-driving "driving skill," if that skill is below the threshold where the sales from pushing the software are less than the potential legal liability, companies aren't gonna push it.