Good article ... and this comment is more for OnStar than for you the reporter ... but does anyone really use Twitter for “search for a local pizza joint”??  I think a better integration feature would be voice activated search, integrated with navigation…. oh yeah like Google.  I can see voice twittering while driving is better than trying to tap with one finger and drive with my eyes looking at my phone.

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There is an add on cell phone service in NYC that almost meets your pizza senario.  There could be special deals for OnStar users, local ads could start being heard.  The businesses would sign up with OnStar, get their coordinates into the system, at user request (I need new boots or I want gourmet pizza ),  ads of deals that meet the users requests starts to playback.  User can say - Oh, that deal, take me there.  Good.  Great pizza and a coupon built in.  It could be done that way.  Businesses would pay OnStar and OnStar would allow them to phone in there latest deals.  OnStart users get heir costs kept low for the service.

With OnStart on board the twitter service could be used to coordinate travel in groups such as soccer moms picking up dropping off various kids to various activities/events.  Carpools could create a system in that if a pickup is running ate then another car in the pool that goes that direction swings by or if its the car driver running later then another driver takes as much of the route as possible.  Something like that.

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I can’t believe that this is for real.  When did Detroit get it together to put this into effect?  are you joking? What a great idea and marketing idea.  With today’s buyers, this may be just the thing to get the younger buyers back to Chevy!

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This would be an excellent hybrid way to program all the tools you have in your car from GPS, Radio to playlist.  How many times do you actually look for the best routes on your computer before going into your car?  How useful would it be to send those directions straight to your car without having to print out directions or re-type it into your cars GPS system.  Why not send it a good playlist while you are at it.  I believe SYNC is probably the closest technology to solve that but on-star might be an interesting gateway to your car though my bet would be on the mobile phone and I truly don’t believe On-Star’s network would be able to handle nor designed to handle that kind of traffic.

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Do I smell an April 1st gag?

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Well, nice idea to invent such a messenger! But to what extent will it be convenient? Once I tried to use computer programmes that convert text into audio. I found them at torrents files search engine   http://www.picktorrent.com . But it was impossible to listen to the audio. No intonation, the words were pronounced too slowly.  Besides, in what way do they solve the problem of different languages, pronunciation, slang. I can’t imagine in what way a computer can find proper equivalent. But of course it will be nice for drivers if the Twitter would be as nice as it is said in the article and previous comments.

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