DKP

Except in the article here, they are counting on a driver connecting their phone to the wifi and logging in with Tesla credentials.

In this instance you don’t need to disable anything in the car.

Requiring email of phone numbers isn’t always something virtuous like stopping spam. It’s also often about first party data acquisition. Even if some people use burner accounts, most won’t, and that means more data to share with advertisers.

It’s not about security, it’s about liability. You can’t sue OSS to get shareholders off your back.