OnStar Corporation is a subsidiary of General Motors. OnStar was formed in 1995 as a collaboration between GM, Electronic Data Systems and Hughes Electronics Corporation. Each of the founding companies brought a specific area of expertise to the enterprise: GM brought vehicle design and integration and a distribution system of millions of vehicles, EDS brought much of the systems development and information management and customer service technologies, while Hughes contributed communications and satellite technology and automotive electronics.

Most GM cars are now available with OnStar. Here's a list http://www.onstar.com/us_english/jsp/equip_vehicles/current_vehicles.jsp

OnStar additionally makes money for GM by licensing service to Acura, Audi, Subaru, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen.

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