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Originally Posted by usmcjlp
Wow it looks like the GM die hards want to pile on anyone who has a complaint. I agree completely. Onstar is absolutely worthless. I live in the DC area and their directions are always the worst possible route. Operators were always very slow. They also caused me to almost have a severe wreck.
Here are the details. I was driving to Maryland at 5:30am on a rainy morning. I requested routing to avoid major highways because traffic in the beltway is always bad. They sent me the routing. I was cruising at about 60 mph on a 2 lane black top road. It was still dark and there was no street lighting. All of a sudden the blacktop became a dirt road. There was about a 4 inch drop from the pavement to the dirt. Remember it was raining, car immediately went into a tail slide. There was a ditch on one side of the road and a tree line on the other. I managed to get the car stopped. The gravel from the dirt road chewed up my rocker panels and gills. My engine bay looked like I had been baja racing. When I immediately called onstar to let them know what had happened, they told me to call back later no one was available to help me. GM would be better off offering a built in nav option. I have owned other vehicles with nav systems and garmin units, this system is the worst by far. No other system has ever put me in a situation like that! I will never use it again.
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You blame onstar because you don't pay attention when you drive. Did you expect onstar to tell you that the road was changing to dirt. Come on.
People put to much faith in computers these days and not enough faith in the one between their ears.