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OnStar
®
Steering Wheel Controls
Your vehicle may have a Talk/Mute button that
can be used to interact with OnStar
®
Hands-Free
Calling. See Audio Steering Wheel Controls
(Three Spoke) on page 281 or Audio Steering
Wheel Controls (Four Spoke) on page 282
for more information.
On some vehicles, you may have to hold the
button for a few seconds and give the command
“ONSTAR” in order to activate the OnStar
®
Hands-Free Calling feature.
On some vehicles, the mute button can be used to
dial numbers into voicemail systems, or to dial
phone extensions. See the OnStar
®
Owner’s
Guide for more information.
How OnStar
®
Service Works
In order to provide you with OnStar
®
services, your
vehicle’s OnStar
®
system has the capability of
recording and transmitting vehicle information. This
information is automatically sent to an OnStar
®
Call
Center at the time of an OnStar
®
button press,
Emergency button press or if your airbags or AACN
system deploys. The vehicle information usually
includes your GPS location and, in the event of a
crash, additional information regarding the accident
that your vehicle has been involved in (e.g. the
direction from which your vehicle was hit). When
you use the Virtual Advisor feature of OnStar
®
Hands-Free Calling, your vehicle also sends
OnStar
®
your GPS location so that we can provide
you with location-based services.
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