I was driving a GM Saturn product from Phoenix to Yuma, AZ. The speed limit on I10 is 75mph. After driving three hours at the speed limit, I passed a truck that was spewing particles from its bin. When I passed 80mph, OnStar phoned me to tell me I was speeding. LOL, safety first. Driver’s good move, second.
Did you tell onstar mind their own damn business?
“When I passed 80mph, OnStar phoned me to tell me I was speeding. LOL, safety first. Driver’s good move, second.”
Is this for real? It really happened to you?
If so, it’s awful. I suppose you should be glad OnStar didn’t call the police on you.
Along that same line...
I’m a member of Sports Car Club of America. In one of the regular columns in our regional newsletter, the author gets one of the latest and greatest new cars and takes it for a few laps around a road course. One month they had a Cadillac CTS-V for testing.
There is a turn on the track that has pretty severe elevation changes; cars get really light going past the apex and can bottom out as they exit. The first time they take this turn at speed, OnStar calls asking if they’ve been in an accident.
Over the course of several laps, they got about three or four more calls.
That's ridiculous. They'd have to have a dedicated line for me. Besides that, on the interstate, if you aren't at minimum 5 MPH over, you are impeding the flow of traffic.
Wait till some municipalities try to get access to OnStar and use that data for revenue enhancement. Sort of the ultimate speed-trap with a ticket in the mail. I bet that's coming.