I feel like this article indicates some product conceptualization failures
https://www.androidpolice.com/gemini-android-auto-privacy-tweak/
(Meanwhile: I literally never hook up Android Auto, because unlike Apple CarPlay there's no way to connect Android Auto without giving the [in my case, rental] car access to my *Contacts*. Just my contacts. This sounds a thousand times worse.)
@mcc software in cars, especially Volkswagen, is so laughably, extremely bad, that I don’t even bother connecting Bluetooth audio in rental cars anymore. The menu is unintuitively hidden, it takes for ever to set up while I impatiently want to get going. Sometimes I have to remove previous pairings before I can connect my phone, and occasionally it doesn’t work at all or fails to switch between codecs after phone calls.
I miss cars, where you’d just dock your iPod or connect via AUX.