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Re: What does OnStar do if...
Posted by jp (more from jp) on Fri, 7 Sep 2001 17:52:18
In Reply to: What does OnStar do if..., russdog, Mon, 3 Sep 2001 13:20:34
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If I don't pay for it, I don't expect to be able to use it. It's a privelage, not a right. If you expect it for free, they'll take other private information they gather and sell it to pay for the emergency "free" features. You don't get something for nothing, and quality emergency response isn't cheap. There are probably thousands of accidents happening every day in the US, and it would overwhelm OnStar if onstar became popular. It would probably take hundreds of operators just to hand that.
I'm told that cellphones can dial 911 without a monthly fee, perhaps that is what you should have. 911 centers have to pay the phone company to be hooked in to the phone network, and phone companies have to be connected to the regional 911 centers, so it's a combination of local government paying for 911, and the government regulations forcing the phone companies to hand off 911 calls to the local 911 centers. As a result, we get a privelage, but it's not promised to us. If onstar could transparently hand off those calls to a 911 center, that would be nice for them, as features go, they take time to implement, and something of such a a national scale would take forever and be expensive and repetitive, when any phone or cell phone can call 911 and get the basics done.
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Posts in this Thread:
- What does OnStar do if..., russdog, Mon, 3 Sep 2001 13:20:34
- Re: What does OnStar do if..., jp, Fri, 7 Sep 2001 17:52:18 <-- Viewing This Message
- Onstar will..., brian@saabcenter.com, Thu, 6 Sep 2001 16:04:13
- Re: What does OnStar do if..., Ken Ferguson, Tue, 4 Sep 2001 20:40:00
- Strictly personal comment/analogy, Atul, Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:43:04
- Last word on On(off)Star, dano, Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:04:17
- what a bunch of nonsense (just say NO to OffStar), dano, Mon, 3 Sep 2001 21:29:11
- Re: What does OnStar do if..., Guy, Mon, 3 Sep 2001 16:52:37
- Re: What does OnStar do if..., John Davies, Mon, 3 Sep 2001 16:34:40
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