Life-changing eye implant helps blind patients read again

The us should do this too. But we aren't. We have problems like John Deere locking down fixing farming equipment - replace some electric part of your gear and you have to haver an API key to "unlock it" to work. This problem already exists on car parts. It can reduce motivation for someone to steal such car parts, but it seems to mostly be a revenue line for car makers, prevents third party replacements too.