Vehicle communication message forwarding system and method

A vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) transceiver comprising wherein:

• a location determination module, wherein the location determination module determines the location of the V2V transceiver;
• a wireless receive module;
• a wireless transmit module;
• a computation module operatively connected to the location determination module, the receive module, and the transmit module, and wherein the computation module is configured to:
• receive a V2V message from the receive module, the received message, from a second V2V transceiver, and wherein the first V2V receiver is configured to broadcast a new message via the transmit module, the forwarded message, wherein the core contents of the forwarded message are substantially the same as the core contents of the received message;
• wherein the forwarded message is modified to indicate that it is not the original broadcast of the core contents of the forwarded message;
• wherein the forwarded message is free of a specific recipient identifier.

A method of forwarding vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) messages comprising:

• broadcasting an original V2V message from a first V2V transceiver wherein the message comprises a forwarding limit metric and original core data;
• receiving a V2V message, the received message, by a second V2V transceiver, wherein the received message comprises the same forwarding limit metric as the original V2V message;
• comparing the forwarding limit metric in the received message to a forwarding limit;
• broadcasting a new V2V message, the forwarded message, by the second V2V transceiver, only if the forwarding limit metric contained in the received message is less than the forwarding limit;
• and
• wherein the forwarded message comprises as forwarded data substantially the same data as the original core data;
• wherein the forwarded message additionally comprises an indication that it is a forwarded message;
• wherein the forwarded message is free of a specific recipient identifier.