My FLIR camera that I use for electronics only exports in JPEG, with the GUI baked into the image and some pretty crappy JPEG compression artifacts. Lame.
The FLIR desktop software uses this data for further analysis and you can export higher quality PNGs from there.
So you can extract the info with OCR... unless you point your car into the sun and the glare of the hood blows out the bottom of the image where the text is.
Though I half suspect they also do that for market segmentation since there's a long list of countries that the export restrictions don't apply to. You can easily buy their super expensive cameras which don't have a frame rate limit if you have the money.
You just pay extra for a model with fully radiometric export. Which is running the same firmware package and just has different options in the signed config file. It's 100% artificial.
That was my point when I said "bullshit reasons".