Patent ID: 7616129

Claim:
An in-vehicle multi-media control system that, based on collected data, controls the multi-media system in a manner to help improve safety of operation, the system comprising: a multi-media user interface including a graphical display device; at least one multi-media system operating independent of the control system; a memory device; a sensor; a central control system; a plurality of traffic probes communicatively coupled to the central control system; a control process operating within the central control system and being operable to receive traffic related data from the plurality of probes and provide control data to a single processing unit; and the single processing unit including an interface to the multi-media user interface, the at least one multi-media system, the memory device, the sensor, and being communicatively coupled to the central control system, and executing instructions in the memory device, the processing unit is operable to control the presentation of outputs from the independently operating multi-media system to the multi-media user interface based at least in part on readings from the sensor and on the control data received from the central control system, independently of input from the multi-media user.