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OnStar President Chet Huber introduces Turn-By-Turn Navigation
Chicago Auto Show
February 8, 2006

Often when you are driving down the road, there is one person who feels the need to chime in with advice for the best route, the fastest road or the latest shortcut. They’re not always right, but that doesn’t stop them from offering their two cents, anyway.

Today’s technology can help eliminate these “backseat drivers.” A global positioning system, or GPS, acts like a personal backseat driver that actually knows what it’s talking about.

Here’s how it works: a network of satellites orbiting the earth sends signals to your GPS receiver, effectively telling it where you are. These signals are sent at the speed of light and continually updated, so the receiver always “knows” its current position.

OnStar, GM’s telematics system, works in much the same way. With its satellite network, OnStar’s Turn-by-Turn Navigation service can help you get where you need to go hassle free. When you push the blue OnStar button in a GM vehicle that’s equipped with the Directions & Connections plan and tell the system where you want to go, the system calculates your route and sends spoken directions to your vehicle through its speaker system. If you make a wrong turn, OnStar uses your continually updated location information to recalculate your route and send you updated directions. And it will never say, “I told you to turn back there.”

During his keynote address at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show, GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner summed it up best: “Push the blue OnStar button, get directions, and you’re on your way. I have to say, all this goes way beyond anything I ever thought we’d ever do at GM – I mean, we’re not just saving lives…we’re actually saving marriages.”

Think of OnStar as your personal GPS system. In this video, OnStar shows you just how easy Turn By Turn Navigation is to use

2008 Video Courtesy of General Motors Corporation

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