In a room within the locked-down confines of the Milford Proving Grounds that somewhat resembles a scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, General Motors engineers are working every day to develop a better antenna receiver. The $750,000 antenna testing system — what General Motors claims is the first of its kind in the world — was developed with antenna company SATIMO and shoots signals from 103 individual probes at the vehicle rotating on a platform in the center of the structure, simulating real-world conditions all in an effort to make sure that signals beaming from services such as OnStar and XM-Sirius Satellite Radio don’t get lost.
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