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Still needs to pass inspection, and it won't if their OBD thingy says X part (eg. the camera) is broken.
North America mostly does not inspect vehicles for safety.
Is that an inspection by the dealer that sold the car, or anyone else? In the UK and I assume many other places the roadworthiness test can be done at loads of different places and there is much less that they check. Pretty sure you don't even need a functional speedometer although they will recommend fixing it.
I don't know if it's still a thing these days but when I was younger some of the lad I knew claimed to reinstall the cat and mid muffler for the MOT then reinstall their "race" parts.
I also might be wrong here but I think if police claim the car is unsafe then you have book the MOT to test if it's unsafe. Not sure where that leaves the driver though, can they drive it home first? No idea.
I guess where it becomes a serious issue if when the driver of a bypassed car is in an accident and it goes to court. The car was seized at the place of the incident so never had features re-enabled.