grand ride The blue OnStar button allows you to contact a live or virtual advisor. The red button with the cross on it is for emergencies. OnStar advisor. The advisor can pinpoint your exact location and relay your problem to emergency services. The blue OnStar button allows you to contact a live or virtual advisor. The red button with the cross on it is for emergencies. The phone, or white-dot button, allows you to make phone calls in a hands-free mode. (Click on the sound icon to hear OnStar’s radio commercial .) Onboard communication devices like OnStar are very important for grands in the event the driver experiences a health issue or an accident that causes unconsciousness. It’s important for our valued passengers—our grandchildren— to know how to press the emergency red button. Discuss with them (within age comprehension) what the buttons stand for, how to press them and what to say to the OnStar advisor. It’s no different from teaching them how to call 911 at home. Beyond help With OnStar, grandparents are totally hip and trendy. You can Star performer Teach your g’kids to use OnStar T here are several automotive communication systems available in vehicles today, but the granddaddy of them all is General Motors’ OnStar . OnStar was developed in 1996 so people in their cars could get help easily and quickly during an emergency. All you do is push a button on a console and you are instantly connected with an GRAND APRIL MARCH
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of GRAND Magazine - March/April 2010