Patent ID: 8712367

Claim:
A method for placing an emergency call from a vehicle in an accident to a rescue co-ordination center by text-to-speech method, comprising the steps: detecting an accident of the vehicle by a sensor system of an automatic accident monitoring unit in the vehicle, and in response to a detected accident: determining geographic accident co-ordinates of the vehicle by a positioning system, transmitting at least the accident co-ordinates to a central call unit processor, the central call unit processor correlating the accident coordinates with a digital map to determine a cartographic accident position as text information, converting the text information of the cartographic accident position into voice information by the central call unit processor, and transmitting the voice information from the central call unit to the rescue co-ordination center over a voice channel, transmitting the voice information from the rescue coordination center to a rescue vehicle, and automatically establishing, by the rescue coordination center, a voice channel between the vehicle in the accident and the rescue vehicle.