{"id":8629,"date":"2010-05-17T12:35:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T12:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/onstar_saves_womans_life.html"},"modified":"2010-05-17T12:35:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T12:35:28","slug":"onstar-saves-womans-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/onstar-saves-womans-life.html","title":{"rendered":"OnStar Saves Woman&#8217;s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a huge fan of any paradigm-changing technology and OnStar &#8211; the GM invented service which integrates a car&#8217;s computer and a remote call center is certainly one of these achievements. The service does lots of different things like provide turn-by-turn navigation but perhaps the crowning achievement of the service is the ability to connect to the call center when the vehicle&#8217;s sensors indicate there has been a collision.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, a couple was forced into their car at gunpoint near Chicago and a thief forced them to drive to a Currency Exchange to cash a check. On the way to the Exchange the woman was able to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local-beat\/Robbery-Couple-Used-OnStar-in-Cadillac-to-Secretly-Call-Police-in-Carjacking-93883259.html\">hit<\/a> the OnStar emergency button on the remote control which alerted the police.<\/p>\n<p><b>Here is a video of the woman who hit the OnStar button being interviewed.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><object height=\"394\" width=\"448\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/syndication?id=93890304&#038;path=%2Fstation%2Fas-seen-on\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/syndication?id=93890304&#038;path=%2Fstation%2Fas-seen-on\"  type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"394\" width=\"448\"><\/embed><p style=\"font-size:small\">View more news videos at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/video\">http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/video<\/a>.<\/p><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a huge fan of any paradigm-changing technology and OnStar &#8211; the GM invented service which integrates a car&#8217;s computer and a remote call center is certainly one of these achievements. The service does lots of different things like provide turn-by-turn navigation but perhaps the crowning achievement of the service is the ability to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,168,170,181,172,1,160,196,199,156,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}