How soon do you think US Onstar equipped vehicles will be calling a Chinese call center?

“I’m solly sil, you say ‘youl cal on file’?”

I opted out of OnStar on mine, but it’s pretty useful. I highly doubt Onstar’s call centers will be outsourced considering they have to coordinate with emergency services.

Yeah i agree….We ramped my friends escalade as you can imagine Onstar came on and asked us if we had been a wreck we said nahhh. She told us to be careful. I bet Onstar gets some crazy calls.

You *ramped* an Escalade?? THAT’S AWESOME!

the emergency services are a great idea, the rest is kind of a novelty really.

Hey, don’t laugh about the call center thing. Do you know that when you phone Pizza Hut in the US there’s a 30% chance your call is routed through the Philipines.

Pizza Hut corporate, you mean?

OnStar would have done much better in the States, and would do much better, if GM would just open it up a bit more. Now, it is simply too proprietary and GM is losing valuable opportunities here.

Pretty sure it’s when you order your stuffed crust. The company I work for operates this call center. You’d be amazed at who uses this service. It currently employs about 2500, almost all are university educated natives who speak very good english and this number is expected to rise to 10,000 in the next few years.

So an American car company will sell cars to the Chinese with a feature manned by Indians. Meanwhile the oil and fuel will come from the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. Now that the U.S. dollar has lost some value, U.S. exports become cheaper thus creating job opportunities here.
Capitalism may not be elegant or altruistic, but it works.

They do need on-star in Asia: they can’t drive for ****. In So. Korea accident rate is tremendous. The speed limit is about 36 mph. Popular cars are (Korean of course, they the most chauvinistic nation one can imagine) size of Accent and Sonata with tiny (up to 2 L) engines and slash box. How the hell they manage to wreck those, I don’t know, but they do. In China there is tremendous road infrastructure. It is like Germany in 50-60’s with autobahns: plenty of great road and few cars. Roads are great. Accidents galore. They do need on-star and spectacles to avoid trees and each other.

global_lightning, don’t forget cars for China will be made in China. China is not capitalistic country per se. Products sold in volume must be manufactured either by Chinese industry or joint venture. How do you think Politburo members can afford Benzes? BTW, you can’t get profits out of the country easily (if at all). You must invest locally (why do you think their currency is flying so high?)

autonut, so. korea, japan, taiwan, are all small country with lots of people living in one crowded area. driving there, it’s like driving in a downtown manhatthan. obviously, there will be more auto accidents in down town city area compare with some farmland country roads…

Johnny, don’t know what you guys do over in Canada, but here in the US local Pizza Huts have *gasp* local phone numbers.

e46Ne90, explain China. Aside from a few major cities, the roads are practically empty.

CA36GTP: just for fun go to pizzahut.com. I had no idea they were global. I guess they’re not US calls; could be from just about anywhere else on the planet however.

Pizza Hut sucks ass.
Anybody whos driven in California much nows Chinese (especially women) drivers need all the help they can get.

You’re all lo faan and gaijin.

autonut: “they can’t drive for ****.” Some of ‘em can’t walk for ****.

CA36GTP: never have been to china but same deal applies. im sure most of auto accidents are from the major city area in china. they need to drive aggressive, than usual, in order to get to place on time. think of NYC taxis, those manaics

Johnny, it’s probably calls for corporate customer service (high-level complaints and ****).

the Chinese are jumping with joy

the chinese driving courses are crap. you basically go through a couple of cones, know how to put the car in park and they hand you a license. Also, the traffic laws in china are one of the worst in the world. and no asians are not inherently bad drivers as many people have stereotyped.

Vdub: do the licenses have spaces for hair and eye colour?

“Herro, tis is OnStaa.”

Is ramping the same as jumping?

SR: ROFL!