Vehicle to infrastructure information conveyance system and method

A vehicle, comprising:

• a data generating system arranged on the vehicle to generate information about external conditions around the vehicle;
• an ISP detection system that detects the existence of an available and useable wireless Internet service provider that is accessible via at least one of a plurality of transceivers that use a long range system to wirelessly communicate with the vehicle as the vehicle travels along the road and that provide a ubiquitous Internet along a network of roads along which the vehicle may travel;
• a communications system coupled to said data generating system and said ISP detection system and arranged to enable the information generated by said data generating system to be transmitted to a remote site in one of a plurality of different communications techniques based on the availability of a wireless ISP as determined by said ISP detection system such that whenever a wireless ISP is detected by said ISP detection system, said communications system communicates directly with the detected wireless ISP via at least one of the transceivers to provide the generated information about the conditions around the vehicle to the remote site via the Internet, the communication by said communications system directly with the detected wireless ISP via the Internet being one of the plurality of communications techniques;
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• a position determining system arranged in the vehicle that determines the position of the vehicle, said communications system being coupled to said position determining system and arranged to transmit the determined position of the vehicle via the Internet to the remote site in conjunction with additional information obtained or generated by said data generating system about the conditions around the vehicle,
• the remote site being a roadway maintenance facility arranged to dispatch personnel to an area including the position from which the vehicle generated the information to take action in that area.