Comments on: GM Reveals OnStar EV Lab Which Connects to Chevy Volt Prototypes, OnStar Will be Standard in Production

By: itsme

itsme — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:38:43 +0000

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By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:30:01 +0000

Yeah — I love the idea of other people having OnStar.

But for me? No — my privacy is a blurry balance, but it’s pretty clear that handing off so much of personal information to a giant multinational corporation is beyond what my personal sense of privacy will allow — even though I’m pretty sure nobody would ever look at it.

Heck, I thought it was creepy when a far-away Ford callcenter rang me to remind me of a 115k-mile service. It would have been fine if it had been someone at my Ford local dealership(we have a 2-way relationship and trust them with my safety), but the big callcenter in the sky’s model of my driving had produced a disturbingly accurate guess of my odometer reading — even though I hadn’t been to the dealer in months. It took me a while to remember that my local dealer must obviously be sharing their service database with Ford Motor Company. As I said, creepy.

And OnStar is even creepier than that.

But really, I want my car to just be a car — so that I can relax and take off my computer-security hat on my way home from work.

By: JayCee

JayCee — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:42:46 +0000

I do not want On-Star. Too nosey. They need to make that an option and not a standard or provide the information to remove the on-star feature set from the vehicle. I agree with the KISS process. GM keeps doing things that are more and more making me reconsider purchasing a Volt.

By: Leon

Leon — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:57:15 +0000

As a software developer I like to, behind the scenes, save “usage” info so that we can analyse which features are being used, by whom, and how often (corporate industrial software, not public personal stuff). For eample “how often do users use the “undo” feature?” (the “undo” feature is a big pain in the neck to develop and code).

I can imagine that the auto companies would love to be able to collect all kinds of data about a car’s usage in the real world.

By: Noel Park

Noel Park — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:30:55 +0000

Dave:

Where did you hear that about the price of the Volt? Do you mean before the tax credit? If true, that’s the biggest news of the year.

As to the percentages of strong hybrids, PHEVs and EVs, God send that it shall be true!