Link: GM Patents A Way To Auction Off Your Radio Presets

Well this should be very very interesting.  How would you feel about a car where Preset 1 was the local Top 40 station and Preset 2 was I dunno let’s say a digital only station from one of the big players, and you couldn’t change the presets?

GM was issued a patent for a “System and method for auctioning geoboxed flexible, semi-locked or locked radio presets” earlier this month, which would allow the automaker to sell the individual buttons on your stereo to third parties.

Source: GM Patents A Way To Auction Off Your Radio Presets