Patent ID: 8548686

Claim:
An automatic crash notification system comprising: a crash detection system configured to detect a crash of a vehicle; a wireless communication system configured to wirelessly transmit a message to and wirelessly receive a message from a remote location in conformance with IEEE 802.16; a processing system configured to transmit notice of a crash over the wireless communication system to the remote location in conformance with IEEE 802.16, in response to detection of the crash by the crash detection system; a memory system containing a first prerecorded message that includes one or more words that mean that the remote location has received notice of a crash; and a user communication system configured to deliver words to an occupant of the vehicle, wherein the processing system is configured to cause the first prerecorded message to be communicated over the user communication system in response to receipt by the wireless communication system of an acknowledgement from the remote location that the remote location has received notice of the crash, but which does not include the first prerecorded message.