Under the Hood, with Big Brother: FORGET ORWELL'S 1984 - 20 YEARS LATER IT'S OUR CARS THAT ARE GIVING US UP

摘要

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 auplio system: "Collision detected. Calling OnStar." You need not be anywhere close to a collision really. For our road test team this summer, it was just a matter of Tunning a routine slalom in a Chevy Malibu Maxx-without so much as hitting a rubber cone-when OnStar called to check up on our driver's health.