Why not to Drag your S2K
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From: Covington WA, USA
Grow up. No one forces anyone else to sign that On Star contract. Or to buy that Corvette. Or to take it to the dragstrip.
If you voluntarily agree to let On Star monitor your car, then you are agreeing to give them access to data about you (like where you were when your airbags activated).
Besides, insurance fraud is a crime. If you take your car to the dragstrip (or the race track) and you know it's not covered by your insurance, then you need to man up and accept that. Hauling the car out to the highway and claiming a deer jumped out in front of you is acting like a spoiled child, not a responsible adult.
If you voluntarily agree to let On Star monitor your car, then you are agreeing to give them access to data about you (like where you were when your airbags activated).
Besides, insurance fraud is a crime. If you take your car to the dragstrip (or the race track) and you know it's not covered by your insurance, then you need to man up and accept that. Hauling the car out to the highway and claiming a deer jumped out in front of you is acting like a spoiled child, not a responsible adult.
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From: Salt Lake City, UT
Originally Posted by mikegarrison,May 4 2009, 11:26 PM
Grow up. No one forces anyone else to sign that On Star contract. Or to buy that Corvette. Or to take it to the dragstrip.
If you voluntarily agree to let On Star monitor your car, then you are agreeing to give them access to data about you (like where you were when your airbags activated).
Besides, insurance fraud is a crime. If you take your car to the dragstrip (or the race track) and you know it's not covered by your insurance, then you need to man up and accept that. Hauling the car out to the highway and claiming a deer jumped out in front of you is acting like a spoiled child, not a responsible adult.
If you voluntarily agree to let On Star monitor your car, then you are agreeing to give them access to data about you (like where you were when your airbags activated).
Besides, insurance fraud is a crime. If you take your car to the dragstrip (or the race track) and you know it's not covered by your insurance, then you need to man up and accept that. Hauling the car out to the highway and claiming a deer jumped out in front of you is acting like a spoiled child, not a responsible adult.
However, I'm not sure that I agree with On Star's privacy policy, if they do indeed share their information with your insurance company. On Star is designed to protect you and make your life easier, and it isn't necessarily doing that by telling your insurance company how many miles you drive each year, where your airbags deployed, or perhaps even your whereabouts at any given time. Not that I would commit insurance fraud, but that just doesn't sound right. So I will avoid On Star and On-Star equipped vehicles.
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Originally Posted by VitaRenovatio,May 5 2009, 12:38 AM
However, I'm not sure that I agree with On Star's privacy policy, if they do indeed share their information with your insurance company.
But I would be very careful about reading the fine print of both my insurance policy and my On Star agreement if I ever had a car with that service.
