Vehicle equipment for notification of traffic impacting events

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon:

• program instructions to receive, by a control device installed with a vehicle, situation assessment information pertaining to vehicle traffic;
• program instructions to determine, by the control device, whether the situation assessment information is indicative of an event likely to impact the vehicle traffic;
• and
• program instructions to, in response to determining that the situation assessment information is indicative of the event likely to impact vehicle traffic, send, by the control device, a print command to a printer communicatively coupled to the control device, the printer adapted to print a patterned layer of a coloring substance to a surface supporting the vehicle, and the print command instructing the printer to print the coloring substance to the surface in a pattern encoding a notification.

A computer system comprising:

• a vehicle having installed therewith a control device and a printer, the printer being communicatively coupled to the control device, and the printer being adapted to print a patterned layer of a coloring substance to a surface supporting the vehicle;
• and
• a computer readable storage medium;
• wherein:
• the control device is structured, located, connected and/or programmed to run program instructions stored on the computer readable storage medium;
• and
• the program instructions include:
• program instructions to receive situation assessment information pertaining to vehicle traffic;
• program instructions to determine whether the situation assessment information is indicative of an event likely to impact the vehicle traffic;
• and
• program instructions to, in response to determining that the situation assessment information is indicative of the event likely to impact vehicle traffic, send a print command to the printer, the print command instructing the printer to print the coloring substance to the surface in a pattern encoding a notification.