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i must assume if you're the legal owner of the car the cops can just as easily have On-Star turn your car off remotely. That's just wrong.
yea........not touching any cars with onstar.............though it'll probably become some sort of mandatory safety feature in all cars within 5-10 years........
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seriously dude. Scary stuff.
I saw this shit for advertisement on TV... They depicted its use in the event that your car had been stolen by some criminal and was speeding away from the police... lmao.. see how it works ? 
. Actually now that I think about it... all of the OnStar commercials Ive seen involves some kind of fear instilling incident where the Onstar comes to the rescue ranging from shit like the location of an accident, or locking your keys out the car ... To think how this kind of technology could be utilized by the police and/or government is pretty frightening, and im pretty sure im only able to grasp the icetip of the possibilities.
. Actually now that I think about it... all of the OnStar commercials Ive seen involves some kind of fear instilling incident where the Onstar comes to the rescue ranging from shit like the location of an accident, or locking your keys out the car ... To think how this kind of technology could be utilized by the police and/or government is pretty frightening, and im pretty sure im only able to grasp the icetip of the possibilities.
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yeah man, the way they showed how the car just like died on the highway screamed "me in 10 years trying to outrun a cop in my Porsche" and they call Onstar and shut my shit off
XIII
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Damn! That shit is scary. GPS location should be all they need to recover a stolen car and even that is some scary technology!
Fortunately, as it stands now, this service can be permanently disabled instantly. I recommend anyone who has OnStar do it. From the OnStar TOU:
"If you don’t want Stolen Vehicle Slowdown capability on your Car, you must contact OnStar by pressing the blue OnStar button in your Car and request that this capability be disabled. If you choose to disable this capability, it will not be available under any circumstances and can only be re-enabled at an authorized car dealership at your expense."
Thanks for the heads-up h^2 O!
-XIII
Fortunately, as it stands now, this service can be permanently disabled instantly. I recommend anyone who has OnStar do it. From the OnStar TOU:
"If you don’t want Stolen Vehicle Slowdown capability on your Car, you must contact OnStar by pressing the blue OnStar button in your Car and request that this capability be disabled. If you choose to disable this capability, it will not be available under any circumstances and can only be re-enabled at an authorized car dealership at your expense."
Thanks for the heads-up h^2 O!
-XIII
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its called another axe-swing at freedoms, which will be manipulated so that the public will want it
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yeah, let them....
im sure someone on icmag will come up with a DIY tutorial on how to deactivate it....
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oh nice!
I know one copper that wished he had it on his death ride with his family. What a dope, they believe the floor mat caused them to go into hyper speed with no brakes & dopey calls 911 instead of putting the car in neutral. Do 911 operators have more brains than the cops?? Apparently not the one he spoke to. Killing the engine would leave them without power brakes or steering, that could be just as dangerous. He wiped out at an intersection killing himself & his family members.
VT_Fire
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yeah toyota and lexus had to recall thousands of those floormats because they kept sliding under the gas pedal and causing accidents
