Minimize the number of steps required to perform a task. Create a common interface in how consumers interact with the system. Utilize a lockout protocol to prevent the use of systems that create unnecessary and excessive attention demands on the driver. Subscribers will purchase cellular time from OnStar through a selection of pre-paid packages. There will be no access fees, roaming or long distance charges.
Conversation is heard through the sound system speakers.
With more than a half million OnStar subscribers using our services today, this is just the next step in making tomorrow's passenger cars and trucks truly communications platforms. OnStar services include automatic air bag notification, stolen vehicle tracking, emergency services, remote door unlock, roadside assistance with location, remote diagnostics, route support, convenience services and concierge services. OnStar will be factory installed as standard or optional equipment on nearly one million General Motors cars and trucks by the end of the year 2000, and is projected to be available on four million vehicles by the end of the 2003 calendar year.