I really, really, really want to get to the bottom of this one. There's speculation that it was done due to some auto industry regulation, or some idiotic court (redundant?) ruled that they were liable for something because they didn't warn the driver to "follow the laws". Possibly the worst possibility is that it's just a placeholder to hide the fact that the infotainment unit is loading 1GB of uncompressed bitmap data from eMMC or something.

If anyone inside the auto industry wants to spill the beans anonymously, please do!