Thinking about getting OnStar with your next vehicle?

[thewayne]

Do you like the police, or hackers, having the potential of stopping your car cold while you're in it?

2009 model year. Coming soon to a dealership near you.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gn55yegRAw_W9RfFKNKkCFTECxHQD8S5H7N80

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000313.html

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/09/2110216

Comments

[silveradept]

I'll bet there are plenty of people who would like to get their hands on the key to that technology. Easy way to stop someone for the police, but also for anybody else who wants to force your car to go into idle so that you can't get away from them. While it's an opt-in service now, how soon before a lot of these opt-in services become mandatory services?

[deborak]

[sarcasm]Oh, but it's such a wonderful safety feature.[/sarcasm]

There's a reason we keep our 1988 sans-electronics car in good running order.