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The United States Department of Transportation Intelligent Vehicle Initiative program

Federal Highway Administration Research and Technology program

Federal Highway Administration Research and  Technology Initiatives

USDOT Intelligent Transportation Systems

The Federal Transit Administration

DOT'S ITS PROGRAM - EXPLORATORY INITIATIVES -- 2005

NHTSA - People Saving People

NHTSA - Safety School

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 "A Higher Intelligence"

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Intelligent Beacon In-formation system for vehicles - - -

The microprocessor of the inventive warning system may also be programmed to read signals transmitted from a remote beacon transmitter installed on a remote carrier, such as a non-motorized vehicle (e.g. bicycle or child's ride-on toy), an emergency vehicle (e.g. ambulance, fire truck, police vehicle), or a potentially hazardous site (e.g. off-road and on-road construction sites, school zones, hospital zones, accident sites, etc.). 

The beacon transmitter is designed to transmit signals employing the same message structure employed between the warning systems installed on Decelerating Moving Vehicles and Surrounding Motorized Vehicles described above. Additionally, such signals would be broadcasted on the same frequency band as the transceiver of the inventive warning system installed on the motorized vehicles. 

The transmitted signals from the remote transmitter would correspond to the presence or location of the transmitter (through range limiting of the beacon) as well as the type of potentially hazardous situation (i.e. a bicycle versus a road construction zone) by use of the Unit Identification message segment to designate the type of alert condition. 

The inventive warning system's microprocessor would then activate the alerting device to warn the vehicle's driver of the presence and/or type of potential danger ahead. 

The alert generated by the alerting device, in turn, would correspond to the particular potentially hazardous situation. Moreover, the type of alert generated could be different from the alert generated in response to a DMV described above.

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.. in accordance with the invention for the purpose of illustrating the manner in which the invention may be used to advantage, it will be appreciated that the invention is not limited thereto. Accordingly, any and all modifications, variations or equivalent arrangements which may occur to those skilled in the art should be considered to be within the scope of the invention as defined in ALL OF THE annexed claims...

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