Patent ID: 7782227

Claim:
A dynamic vehicle grid system that enables vehicles to sense and respond to traffic conditions comprising; two or more vehicles positioned in close proximity to each other such that the vehicles could send and receive signals from each other; at least one sensor positioned in each vehicle to detect various conditions and status of the vehicle; a transmitter positioned in the each vehicle to broadcast signals to other vehicles in the vehicle grid system; a receiver positioned in the each vehicle to receive signals transmitted from other vehicles in the vehicle grid system; a computing device positioned in each vehicle, said computing device capable of accepting signals from the sensors and receiver, to transmitting signals to the transmitter for broadcast to other vehicles in the grid and to processing signals received from said receiver and sensor; and a software module contained in each vehicles, said software module capable of: detecting the warning message at a first receiving vehicle in the dynamic grid; determining whether the detected warning message is from a first vehicle or a receiving vehicle; when the determination is that the detected warning message is from the first vehicle, interpreting the detected warning message at the receiving vehicle and sending the detected warning message to a driver of the receiving vehicle; formulating a relay message at the receiving vehicle containing information from the warning message detected at the receiver vehicle, the relay message containing a field that identifies a sender of the relay message as the first vehicle which sent the original warning message; and relaying the formulated relay message to other vehicles in close proximity to the receiving vehicle that formulated the relay message.