Patent ID: 7893818

Claim:
A system for communicating vehicular information with a remote location, said system comprising: a computing unit in communication with at least one component of a vehicle; and a wireless interface in communication with said computing unit and configured to communicate a wireless signal with a locally positioned wireless device, the wireless device including a user interface to enable a user to communicate with other users of wireless devices, said computing unit further configured to receive data from the at least one component of the vehicle and communicate the data in an internal signal via said wireless interface to the wireless device to cause the wireless device to communicate the data to the remote location, said computing unit being further configured to receive an external signal from the remote location via the wireless device and said wireless interface, and communicate data contained in the external signal to the at least one component of the vehicle, the external signal including data to cause said computing unit to alter the at least one component of the vehicle, the at least one component of the vehicle being an electromechanical component, the data of the external signal further causing said computing unit to disable the vehicle, the wireless device being configured with a mechanism configured to cause the wireless device to communicate a disable signal to the wireless interface to cause said computing unit to disable the vehicle a predetermined amount of time after the external signal is received.