Patent ID: 7791503

Claim:
A system for conveying information from a first vehicle to a second vehicle through a fixed structure as the first and second vehicles travel along a road, comprising: a plurality of transceivers arranged to enable wireless communications with the first and second vehicles using a long range system as the first and second vehicles travel along the road and to provide a ubiquitous Internet along a network of roads along which the first and second vehicles may travel; a data generating system arranged on the first vehicle to generate information about external conditions around the first vehicle; a first communications system arranged on the first vehicle, coupled to said data generating system and that communicates with at least one of said transceivers; and a second communications system arranged on the second vehicle and that communicates with at least one of said transceivers, such that the information about the conditions around the first vehicle that is generated by said data generating system is transmitted from said first communications system on the first vehicle to said second communications system on the second vehicle via at least one of said transceivers using the Internet.