I’m driving home this morning, and on the radio is an OnStar commercial. I’m not really a fan of allowing Big Brother watch where I am or disable my vehicle, so I’m clearly not likely to buy any GM vehicle from the last many years, but that’s beside the point of this post. Edit: or from a handful of others.

They have the ability to locate a car once it’s stolen (yes, they can also locate it before it’s stolen, which means “they can locate a car”). So they’re advertising this on the radio, it sounds all good and dandy, but then they say the service is only good for a year. Sure, makes sense, it’s a service, and ya gotta pay to play…

But then I got thinking. Isn’t auto theft a serious enough offense that even if you don’t renew your overpriced subscription, don’t they have some sort of obligation to help law enforcement track down criminals if it’s as easy as clicking a few buttons on their end?