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A lot of engineers view the touchscreen head unit to be the central nerve system of the car, when in reality it's just a peripheral. It's an accessory. It's like those gimmick CPU coolers with a watch sized display. They use different models of that screen for different trims of same cars. This article in fact discuss removal of the DCM unit, not removal of the touchscreen; the touchscreen is still 100% functional. Because the entire screen is just an accessory.

What that means is, those data collections don't necessarily go through that display thing, therefore collections consent/disable screen just might not be there. Maybe it's in the paper contracts or maybe they think cars aren't people, but my point is, a car is not built around the display, and there is no guarantee that the tracking code is on that part of the car.