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Old 01-19-2011, 01:50 PM   #106
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Originally Posted by MLL67RSSS View Post
There have been all kinds of incidents where automotive journalist and others were doing some 'performance' driving or testing of a vehicle on skip-pads/cones, etc. and been contacted by On-Star, they didn't "hit anything." Regardless of the reason, the recording of his voice was the evidence that sealed his fate and placed him at the scene.
It's because the Onstar system works via a series of sensors, and if a sensor gets tripped because of one of those performance tests, then OnStar is activated. If you're still alive and your car is still in one piece, then OnStar couldn't care less what you do after that.
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