Except for when Big Brother doesn’t want you driving somewhere.
An incentive to kill the driver. I feel safer already.
Didn’t they have this for sometime?
Like no one saw this coming.......
Wait until you’re late on your property tax bill for your new SUV...and Da Man shuts it off until you pay up sucka!!!!!
Holy wrong number, Batman, I dialed 555-1213 but that car isn't slowing. (Meanwhile on the cross town expressway in a vehicle with the tag 555-1214, Joe Schmo was heard to say "what the heck is going on with my car!")
Great Britain Satellites on speeders (Motorcycles' engine to be cut off via satellite - cars next)
When insurance companies pay for these features, then I’ll know that they make economic sense.
i’ll believe it when i see it.
where i live cars are stolen routinely.
my pickup about seven weeks ago was stolen on a friday night.
i got it back on sunday afternoon, undamaged, fortunately.
an illegal called me to tell me where it was located; the police couldn’t find it because it was behind an apartment building.
the police said local teens often need to use a pickup to move something, and abandon it when they’re thru.
OnStar is the reason I won’t even consider GM vehicles anymore. Too bad, because of all American car makers I used to like GM the best. Others had bad luck, for example, with the Chevy Citation, but mine worked just fine the whole time I had it.
There are too many encroachments on privacy as it is.
I don’t need another.
It will not stop the thieves from trying .
All of the new GM vehicles have built in anti-theft systems already , so the thieves cannot start the vehicle unless they have the proper transponder keys .
If thieves are driving the vehicle , chances are that the owner left the keys in the ignition or stole them from the owner .
For those who still bother to steal GM vehicles, this will be a signal to avoid them, except as chop-shop bait. When the entire vehicle quickly disappears into the parts bins, kind of difficult to track it down with GPS or this latest whiz-bang.
But, why bother to steal a GM car when you can grab a Honda, BMW, or Toyota? Inefficient use of time.
Great idea! Since everything on a modern car is programmed through the computer, it shouldn’t be too hard to tell the computer to speed-limt the vehicle to 15 MPH. I like the McGruff-like voice telling the thief to pull over too.
We have Onstar in our Saturn Ion, and have never used it, but we do like the security of knowing it’s there as we travel quite a bit in the car.
GM taking a page from Bill Gates: who needs to sell the computers, just sell the OS for all of them.
That is the way to riches and away from the UAW!
(Oh sorry. All of the computers except for the 4 or 5% running an Apple OS. Let's just hope GM doesn't “brick” their cars if owners decide to change their oil at a jiffy lube.)
We’re talking about criminals, moron - what if they just leave it in the middle of the highway and run off? Is GM going to pay the bills of the first poor schlub to ram into one?
Great publicity for GM and the On Star product, but most chop shops have the cars stripped within a couple of hours, well before the owner knows it’s stolen.
He called On Star and they said they had the vehicle located and it was parked about 20 miles from his place.
On Star would NOT tell him where the truck was located. He had to notify the police and they were instructed to call On Star to get the location information. There are more than a few good reasons why OnStar wants law enforcement involved to retrieve the car.
He got it back.
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Not that I think they'd actually be interested in anything going on in my car, but I don't think it's healthy to let them get into the habit of doing their jobs without crossing every t and dotting every i. Every little bit of empowerment the government gets in domestic law enforcement is a little less power in our hands. That can't be a good thing.
And then to add insult to injury, I think some of these LoJack type services will not tell the subscriber where the transmitter is but will only tell law enforcement. If I wanted to know at all times where my vehicle was, I think I'd get one of the cell phones whose location you can see on the internet and leave it in the car. Then I am in control of the information and can use it or release it as I see fit.