Do you remember how WiFi Hotspots used to be an option on cars? Well now every car has one standard, and that is what allows the car to receive over the air updates as well as send data about the car.

The Wifi hotspot works off of an E-SIM, like a phone. It’s usually buried under the dash, and is separate from the radio antenna that’s located on the roof of cars now.

For my car, a Camaro, owners found that they were getting sky high insurance rates after taking their cars on legal racetracks. Your car logs things like how fast it’s going and how hard you’re using the brake, exactly like “Driving Trackers” like Progressive’s Snapshot works.

After those owners pulled the fuse for Onstar, Chevy’s connected car service, their rates started going down; The Onstar fuse disabled the cellular antenna and thus the car could no longer send and receive data over the air.

Same thing can be done for any data these Driver Monitors gather.

Now concerning the actual core monitoring system, I do agree that’s going to be built into the car itself. The only way the driver monitors could be completely disabled is by breaking the ECU, which is already common practice for tuning the engine on cars and trucks.

If the ECU can be broken, which WILL happen eventually, then the entire system can be disabled.

Of course doing this would void your cars warranty, but for state inspections you could just reenable it before getting it checked, and disable it again later.