Under the Hood, with Big Brother
Someday it’ll happen, probably when you least expect it. Just as you countersteer while drifting out of a tight corner, or after you punch the brakes hard, you’ll hear the mechanically animated female voice emanating from your car’s audio system:
“Collision detected. Calling OnStar.”
Your first impulse might be to complain of the intrusion to those behind the bright blue OnStar button, but here’s a flash: You should be far more alarmed by what alerted OnStar in the first place—the “black box” insidiously hard-wired into your car’s electronic guts, unstoppable, unalterable, and unbeknownst to most drivers, silently recording every dramatic move.
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