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Under the Hood, with Big Brother; Forget Orwell's 1984-20 years later it's our cars that are giving us up.(News)
Byline: Bob Gritzinger
Someday it'll happen, probably when you least expect it. Just as you countersteer while drifting out of a tight corner, or after you punch the brakes hard, you'll hear the mechanically animated female voice emanating from your car's audio system:
"Collision detected. Calling OnStar.''
You need not be anywhere close to a collision, really. For our road test team this summer, it was just a matter of running a routine slalom in a Chevy Malibu Maxx-without so much as hitting a rubber cone-when OnStar called to check up on our driver's health.
If you're anything like us, it won't be until after you've explained to the ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Under the Hood, with Big Brother; Forget Orwell's 1984-20 years later...