• gadgets

    OnStar May Add Voice-Activated Twitter Capability

    OnStar may soon partner with Twitter to offer hands-free tweeting capability to its suite of voice-activated communications services. This may be the perfect compliment to OnStar's automatic crash reporting. More »
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    Comment by Leeeeena - 1000 Club: haha, roadrage tweets have gotta be funny as hell! 6 Responses | Other threads

  • onstar

    OnStar Partners With Poison Control To Pacify Scared Parents

    OnStar will now have the Poison Control Center on the other side of the little blue button, giving doting parents "peace of mind" over their helpless brood when they down a gallon of antifreeze. More »
    03/16/09
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    Comment by FordTempoFan's Tempo isn't too smart..: OnStar saddens me. It reminds me that with every generation, children are growing weaker and parents lives are being made... 12 Responses | Other threads

  • novelties

    Toyota Safety Connect, Lexus Enform Take Aim At GM OnStar With New Service

    Toyota's ready to battle GM's OnStar with it's own on-board telematics program appropriately named Safety Connect and Lexus Enform. Of course GM could have avoided this if they'd let Lexus continue to use OnStar. More »
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    Comment by leavethegun-takethecannoli: Can they eavesdrop in on conversations in a car with these systems? 5 Responses | Other threads

  • onstar

    OnStar Helps 3,000 Per Hour Get Out Of Hurricane Gustav's Way

    GM saw a 30% rise in OnStar call volume Sunday, mainly from Gulf coast residents fleeing the approach of Hurricane Gustav. GM says it had as many as 500 OnStar advisors helping evacuees — more than 3,000 per hour by Sunday — get directions, find Red Cross shelters and make hotel reservations. Customers pushing the little blue button were also given 30 minutes worth of free airtime to take calls in their cars so family members could get in touch with loved ones. More »
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    Comment by Ash78: I've always wanted to drive on an interstate in the wrong direction. Too bad that's usually for people coming HERE... 8 Responses | Other threads

  • industry news

    OnStar Adds MapQuest, One-Touch Addressing, Traffic and Ex-Avoidance

    For all the goofy hype that surrounds it, OnStar is occasionally helpful to those who have it. The OnStar/GM Nav system should be getting better now that the Onstar-Mapquest service is ready to go. The three main features include the ability to feed an address to an OnStar advisor while driving, the ability to create maps on MapQuest.com and send them to your navigation system, and XM NavTraffic. We just made up the part about ex-avoidance. No amount of technology will keep you from bumping in to the only ex you abandoned in the woods at the worst possible moments. We have to give special props to the OnStar media people for using Gilley's of Urban Cowboy fame for the press photos. Is there going to be a mechanical bull point of interest feature? Press release below the jump. More »
    04/02/08
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    Comment by JoSCh: Unless you've got OnStar in your submarine, you ain't finding my ex. more » | Other threads

  • gadgets

    Ford Adds OnStar-esque SmartAlert Tracking

    Those envious of the OnStar service from the General take note! No longer will you have to sit in jealousy as others track the location of their car's digitally, because Ford will begin implementing the SmartAlert system in vehicles soon. SmartAlert is a vehicle tracking system that will be factory-installed in Ford vehicles to assist in recovering stolen cars. More »
    02/22/08
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    Comment by my favorite car is a motorcycle: Word to Mulally: Stop hanging out with your old Microsoft friends. They are corrupting your product strategy. Splashing electronic... more » | Other threads

  • novelties

    FCC Killed The Analog OnStar? Older OnStar Users SOL Next Week

    Older OnStar systems that operate on the analog cellular network will no longer work as of January 1, or next week. Now why would OnStar ever want to send its most loyal, early-adopting users out to sea without a paddle? They wouldn't — but it's not like there are many other options, at least at this point. More »
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    Comment by TexanIdiot25- needs a edit buton... EDIT: Needs an edit button: @dankicksass: So, it has to do with the GPS unit? Im curious as to why the '01 box can't be... more » | Other threads

  • gadgets

    OnStar No Longer General's Only BFF? GM to Add Bluetooth by 2009

    What's going on with GM and OnStar? For the past forever, all GM models (Cadillac STS excluded) have not included any kind of Bluetooth compatibility in order to ensure there's no competition with OnStar's cell service. That is, until now. Comparing OnStar to a Bluetooth compatible car and personal cellphone is like calling a McDonalds burger a filet mignon. No offense, McDonalds, my alcohol-lined stomach loves those burgers at 3 a.m. More »
    12/20/07
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    Comment by bmwfanatic: @BLS: no, but it was a showstopper in replacing my bluetooth equipped 540 with a CTS-V or GTO. more » | Other threads

  • industry news

    Ni Hao! OnStar Coming to China

    If you thought only American celebs like Jimmy Kimmel and Tiger Woods locked themselves out of their GM products, you'd be sorely mistaken. There are all sorts of Chinese celebs that need OnStar, too! Not to mention China has approximately 1.3 billion prospective customers. GM and the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation Group (SAIC) are planning to provide almost the full range of OnStar features to China, including crash notification, roadside assistance, door unlock, handsfree calling and turn-by-turn navigation. Press release below the jump. More »
    11/29/07
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    Comment by FuzzlessPlushroom, ya fuckin' berk: @POLAR: Yeah, but OnStar backwards is "Rats? No." more » | Other threads

  • los angeles auto show

    Design Challenge, Robocar 2057: GM OnStar ANT

    With its entry in Design Los Angeles this year, GM's projecting the future of its OnStar service, on which the company just introduced new perp-thwarting gear. Apparently, in 2057, the telematics service will facilitate a vast network of embedded intelligence, enabling cars (i.e., foldable rolling pyramids) to communicate with each other. That, they say, will maximize traffic flow and prevent accidents, though some believe it may cause the formation of unhealthy attachments, a result of the futuristic machines' narcissistic sense of entitlement. The cars themselves, will be reconfigurable, by way of single-walled, carbon-polymer nanocomposites that form flat surface panels. The panels will incorporate the carbon nanotube battery that powers their e-motors. That settles it, in 50 years we're totally shorting jiffy lube stock. [Design Los Angeles] More »
    10/11/07
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    Comment by brandegee: Some of this will bear fruit. Carbon nanotubes are already being used to strengthen aerospace materials and direct electrical flow.... more » | Other threads

  • gadgets

    OnStar Unveils New Stolen Vehicle Slowdown System

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    Comment by The-Simpsons-Rule!!: @smokyburnout: yea thats why I was saying those smartass comments, im a teenager after all more » | Other threads

  • news

    OnStar And MapQuest Partnering To Help You Get Lost As Easily As Possible

    The subsidiary sitting atop a star that's owned by the General is taking the turn-by-turn downloadble direction nav system in GM vehicles pretty seriously. They announced yesterday at an embargoed press conference they're expanding their nav system by partnering with MapQuest to allow subscribers to send destinations from MapQuest.com directly to your OnStar-equipped vehicle. The system's called "OnStar Web Destination Entry" and they're planning to start with a pilot program in the summer of 2007 and then expand it to all OnStar subscribers starting late 2007. We guess that means you'll now be able to get lost with MapQuest directions by having them directly beamed to your car rather than print them out and take them with you. Hey, at least it's more environmentally friendly. Full press release and a screen shot of what the new MapQuest screen will look like after the jump. – Ray Wert More »
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    Comment by rg: After MapQuest gets you lost you're going to NEED that OnStar! more » | Other threads

  • detroit auto show

    Gwen "Chevrolet" Stefani, We Can Totally Out-Product Place Your Skinny Ass

    I don't know if anyone else has seen the new Chevrolet commercial Gwen Stefani music video for the new Chevy Tahoe her new song, "The Sweet Escape." Although the Chevy (and Buick!) reach-around paid product placement in the music video is pretty blatant, we think maybe they could have gone even further. As an example, we here at Jalopnik have put together the following video we've made highlighting what could have happened on the way to the GM Style event this past Saturday night below the jump. Let's look at it as a "how to" for celebs in how to give a real product placement handjob. And hey, we didn't even get paid for it — consider it a public service to publicity-seeking paparazzi-fodder everywhere. – Ray Wert More »
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    Comment by squablow: Vid doesn't work, I guess I'm missing out on something really great here. more » | Other threads

  • news: weird

    Careful Who You Show Your OnStar to: FL Man Gets Busted for Coke

    Sounds like a nice way to spend an evening, dunnit? Sittin' 'round, showin' your girl your new 'Slade, tootin' a few lines off the center console, coppin' a feel or three and then you think, "Hey, why don't I show her how OnStar works? But in your booger-sugar-addled brain, you mess up the volume settings, leading the operator to summon the po-po, who, when they arrive, find your nose candy, shuttle you off to jail and seize your brand new Cadillac. Balls to you, daddy. She ain't never comin' back. [Thanks to Felix for the tip.] More »
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  • news

    GM Adds Turn-by-Turn Navigation to OnStar

    At the Chicago auto show this week, GM plans to introduce the latest version of its OnStar telematics system, which will darn socks, provide legal advice, offer tips on racehorses, stain furniture, make scrambled eggs, feed the cat, fold newspaper hats, recount life in Brooklyn during the Great Depression, clean the garage, bowl a strike, mail a letter and argue in favor of the Aether Model of the Universe. Would that it did. It will, however, include a "turn-by-turn" navigation system using automated voice prompts. The system will be available starting mid-year on 2006 Buick Lucerne, Cadillac DTS and Cadillac STS models, with other GM vehicles being phased in over the next two years. More »
    02/07/06
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    Comment by drewheyman: that's cuz the gm nav system is a bit questionable. not sure the manufacturer of the data held in the... more » | Other threads

  • gadgets

    The System is Down: OnStar to E-Mail Drivers of Troubled Cars

    Remember the days before the check engine light? When a well-tuned ear and throttle foot told you all you needed to know about what was wrong with your car? Remember the first time your check engine light came on and you freaked out, figuring the whole thing was about to blow up if you didn't Stop. Right. Then? Well, the geniuses at OnStar have now taken all of this e-mumbo-jumbo to the next level. If your OnStar-equipped GM car's systems detect a fault, your car will send you an electronic message letting you know you've got a problem if say, your oxygen sensor just quit the team. We think this is kind of creepy. We're changing our name to Winston Smith. More »
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