When GM rolled out turn-by-turn directions for navigation-less models, we were impressed with the thrifty idea even if the execution wasn’t pretty. Now the company is making the obvious leap to adding ...

The subsidiary sitting atop a star that's owned by the General is taking the turn-by-turn downloadble direction nav system in GM vehicles pretty seriously. They announced yesterday at an embargoed ...

On any given day, OnStar advisers must be ready to call a tow truck or provide turn-by-turn directions. Or save a life or deliver a baby. Take two years ago. Bryan Anta, 33, answered an OnStar ...

The automaker will launch a new service this month to let GM drivers download Google Maps directions to their OnStar in-car systems. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a ...

If onboard navigation systems didn’t sound the death knell for folding paper maps, the latest collaboration between OnStar and MapQuest just might. General Motors’ OnStar and MapQuest are teaming up ...

GM provided fresh details of its collaboration with Google Cloud to bring new artificial intelligence (AI) technology to its OnStar Interactive Virtual Assistant (IVA), a process that has been ongoing ...

GM announced an upgraded feature for their OnStar service yesterday at the Chicago Auto Show. OnStar has been around for over a decade and is actually a pretty decent service for those folks who own a ...

General Motors' OnStar has signed a deal with MapQuest to provide directions for destinations you pre-select on your home computer, piped into your car via turn-by-turn instructions. It works this way ...

General Motors branched out into in-car connectivity well before the term became a buzzword thrown around annually at CES. Its OnStar suite of technology is nearly a quarter of a century old. It has ...

Back in 1996, General Motors introduced OnStar, an innovative safety-and-information service available only on vehicles it manufactured. The company hoped it would induce shoppers to choose a GM car ...