General Motors announced Monday that OnStar, its safety and connectivity system, would begin a pilot test of a location-reporting function called Family Link that would display the location of a subscriber’s vehicle on a digital map and send a text message or e-mail notification to the subscriber, allowing parents to monitor their teens’ activity with the car:

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    OnStar Family Link: Peace of Mind for Parents, Torment for Teenagers…

    General Motors announced Monday that OnStar, its safety and connectivity system, would start a pilot test of a location-reporting function called Family Link.The feature would harness OnStar’s embedded telemetry and global positioning sensors to disp…..