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Originally Posted by Number 3
Your phone has pretty much everything anyone would need to know your location, your speed, your rate of acceleration an deceleration. Everything OnStar can do except throttle position.......but if you are accelerating hard that's pretty much derived 
No ones complaining about their phones though.
I've said it before, a friend swears he gets targeted ads for things he has never searched for........but he has talked about. You know how you can simply go, "hey, Siri" on an iPhone 6s without touching your phone? Yep your phone is listening too. |
Difference is with OnStar in a second the folks at the control center can dispatch your VIN, color, name, address, phone number, velocity, RPM, transmission gear, and engine temperature. And if you think they can't or won't in the future you are very naive.
It's a lot harder to hide a 2 ton chunk of metal in defining color for the world to see from the police and insurance company than it is to hide your smartphone.
Apple can know where you are and how fast you're going (unless you have GPS turned off which you can't do with OnStar unless you remove the fuse, unplug the antenna, or tear out the module
), but they don't know how you're going that fast or in what.