System for gathering and distributing location information of vehicles

A system for managing vehicle information comprising:

• a plurality of vehicles wherein each of the vehicles has a navigation unit comprising:
• a navigation unit controller, including an unique identifier for the navigation unit and a list of other navigation units recorded therein;
• a display;
• a wireless transmitter/receiver;
• a global positioning unit configured to determine the location of the navigation unit and to transmit the location of the navigation unit to the navigation unit controller;
• a system controller, wherein the system controller is configured to receive, via the respective transmitter/receivers, the respective location, the respective unique identifier, and the respective list of other navigation units;
• wherein the system controller is configured to transmit, to each of the navigation units, via the respective transmitter/receiver, the locations of those of the other navigation units listing that respective navigation unit.

A method for operating a system comprising:

• providing a plurality of vehicles each having a navigation unit;
• determining the location for each of the plurality of vehicles using the respective navigation unit;
• transmitting to a system controller from each of the plurality of vehicles the location of the respective navigation unit and a respective pre-selected list of other vehicles;
• transmitting the locations of the respective navigation units from the system controller to the respective navigation unit for each of the vehicles on the pre-selected lists.