Patent ID: 7425903

Claim:
A method for enabling motor vehicles in a dynamic vehicle grid system to sense and respond to traffic conditions comprising the steps of: detecting a vehicle event at a first vehicle in a vehicle grid system; formulating a warning message at the first vehicle in response to the detected vehicle event, by identifying the vehicle event detected; and creating a message format indicating the detected event and the identity of the vehicle; broadcasting the formulated warning message to other vehicles in the dynamic vehicle grid; 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 not from a 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 a relay message sender and not the first vehicle which sent the original warning message; relaying the formulated relay message to other vehicles in close proximity to the receiving vehicle that formulated the relay message; and repeating said relay message formulating step and said message relaying step at receiving vehicles that received the relay message.