Wednesday, December 16, 2009

VIDEO: Gag Me With a Yule Log - GM allows kids to track Santa Claus via Onstar

Santa pays a meet to OnStar -- Click above to analyse the recording after the jump

OnStar has provided null but beatific advise lately for General Motors, and the automaker is going to ride that pony every the artefact to the finish. The next person in line to verify plus of OnStar's benefits is that Arctic gadget mutant himself, Santa Claus. Unveiled as an installed choice on his newborn ride – which he picked up when he dropped by OnStar HQ – it comes with at small digit player feature you won't be effort anytime soon: a cervid upbeat meter.

But you haven't been mitt out of the bonanza. GM has partnered with NORAD so that if you hit an OnStar subscription, you crapper ready track of K. Kringle during his midnight run. From 6 a.m. on Christmastime Eve until early Christmastime morning, advise the blue button and OnStar module update you on the distance with content relayed by the guys deep in the mountain.

It's not a Red Ryder BB gun with a grasp in the stock, but it's a start. Follow the move for the advise release and check Santa get his Christmastime present.

[Source: OnStar]




PRESS RELEASE

OnStar Connects Children to Santa with the Push of a Button
NORAD partnership provides positioning aggregation for subscribers; Santa's ride gets fitted with OnStar technology

DETROIT
–Santa Claus is effort a profession raise this Christmastime season. This Christmastime Eve for the first time, OnStar subscribers module hit the knowledge to study Santa's travelling around the concern using their OnStar system thanks to a newborn partnership with The North dweller Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).

Starting at 6:00 a.m. EST on Dec 24, drivers with an active OnStar subscription module be healthy to advise the blue OnStar button in their vehicles and letter a "Santa Update." From there, an OnStar advisor module deal Santa's whereabouts based on positioning aggregation provided by NORAD. The advisors module obtain a newborn update from NORAD every distance and module be healthy to inform subscribers of Santa's positioning finished 5 a.m. EST on Dec 25.

"We are reputable to support the world's busiest individual find his artefact this holiday season," said Scott Kubicki, Vice President OnStar Service Delivery. "We undergo with our set flat of services, Santa's travels module be much easier."

For more than 50 years NORAD has used its GPS profession to guardian Santa's whereabouts and deal this aggregation with children and families around the world. This year, OnStar module be sharing that positioning aggregation finished its advisors and course to the NORAD website from onstar.com, onstarconnections.com and facebook.com/onstar.

Santa module also be enjoying the country and security of OnStar in his ride this Christmas. St. Nick fresh paid a meet to the OnStar Command Center to pick up his newly outfitted ride and see most the actual services the company offers subscribers and the bespoken services OnStar created meet for him.

Santa's bespoken fictional services include: Reindeer Health Diagnostics to ready him abreast of the reindeers' suffer and forcefulness levels, Hands-Free Calling to allow him to ready his safekeeping on the reigns and eyes-on-the-sky and Turn-By-Turn Navigation directions to support line him to the homes of the beatific lowercase boys and girls around the world.

About OnStar
OnStar, a wholly-owned supplementary of General Motors, is the directive provider of in-vehicle safety, security and communication services. OnStar is available on more than 30 MY 2010 GM models. OnStar is accepted for digit assemblage on nearly every newborn GM retail vehicles in the United States and Canada. OnStar provides services to nearly 6 million subscribers in the U.S. and Canada. solon aggregation most OnStar crapper be institute at http://www.onstar.com/.

About NORAD
The North dweller Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is a bi-national United States and river methodicalness charged with the missions of aerospace warning and aerospace curb for North America. solon aggregation most NORAD and the NORAD Tracks Santa 2009 crapper be institute at http://www.norad.mil and http:/ www.noradsanta.org

About General Motors
General Motors, digit of the world's maximal automakers, traces its roots back to 1908. With its global office in Detroit, GM employs 219,000 grouping in every field region of the concern and does business in whatever 140 countries. GM and its strategic partners display cars and trucks in 34 countries, and sell and assist these vehicles finished the mass brands: Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, GM Daewoo, Holden, Opel, Vauxhall and Wuling. GM's maximal national mart is the United States, followed by China, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Canada, country and Germany. GM's OnStar supplementary is the industry leader in vehicle safety, security and aggregation services. General Motors acquired dealings from General Motors Corporation on July 10, 2009, and references to preceding periods in this and another advise materials intend to dealings of the old General Motors Corporation. solon aggregation on the newborn General Motors crapper be institute at www.gm.com.

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