System on board an on-road vehicle for identifying, tagging and reporting hazardous drivers in the vicinity of a host vehicle

An electronic system onboard a host vehicle to allow an occupant to identify, tag and report hazardous drivers in the vicinity of the host vehicle comprising:

• a sensor array on the host vehicle for detecting one or more adjacent vehicles in a vicinity of the host vehicle;
• a host display inside the host vehicle visible to the occupant of the host vehicle;
• at least one adjacent vehicle display inside the one or more an adjacent vehicles visible to at least one adjacent vehicle occupant of the one or more adjacent vehicles;
• a signal transmitter on the host vehicle;
• a server electronically coupled to the sensor array, the host display, and the signal transmitter and having a processor, a memory storing computer-readable instructions when executed by the processor takes the following steps:
• providing a graphical user interface (GUI) shown on the host display;
• preparing an image of road conditions in the vicinity from input from the sensor array and displaying the road image including the one or more adjacent vehicles on the host display;
• providing a selector in the GUI for manipulation by the occupant of the host vehicle for placing a visible emphasis on the one or more adjacent vehicles in the road image;
• providing a menu of options with the GUI for the occupant of the host vehicle to select within the road image the one or more adjacent vehicles and to place a visible emphasis on the one or more adjacent vehicles to define at least one tag respectively associated with at least one pre-tagged vehicle, wherein the at least one tag has an expiration;
• determining that the at least one tag does not exceed a limit of tags that can be issued for the host vehicle over a period of time;
• providing with the GUI a field for the occupant of the host vehicle to enter or select a tag type from a menu of tag types for the at least one tag;
• associating respective tag information with the at least one tag, wherein the respective tag information includes a time, date, geographical location, and the identity of the occupant of the host vehicle;
• and
• transmitting, by the signal transmitter on the host vehicle, a signal representative of the tag type to a receiver on the at least one pre-tagged vehicle to define at least one tagged vehicle, wherein the at least one adjacent vehicle display displays the tag type over an image of the pre-tagged vehicle in the road image.