Emergency Vehicle Warning on screen

[mpsoldier]

The other day I was driving on HW 4 in the SF Bay Area and my Uconnect beeped and popped up a message about an approaching emergency vehicle. Never seen this happen before or since. Anyone seen this? It was about 1 minute later that an ambulance with Code 3 lights driving in the opposite direction on the highway.

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[Mr._Bill]

There's been several recent posts on this. I've seen it more over the past few months. Apparently, it is receiving the signal from a transmitter on the emergency vehicle.

 

[20Gladiator22]

Emergency vehicles, state maintenance vehicles, and roadside assistance vehicles send the signal. Started about three or four months ago here in PA and MD. Not a bad idea....a little annoying sometimes during a good song.

 

[jav_eee]

if FCA equipped these vehicles to detect opticom signals that’s pretty neat.

 

[Jefe1018]

Great… another way to be tracked.

 

[Teqsand]

Great… another way to be tracked.

Well actually your jeep is doing the tracking

 

[Ouchie]

Either our ambulances don’t have this feature, or none of the vehicles on the road around here receive the signal. SLOW DOWN AND PULL OVER TO THE RIGHT. - Your friendly neighborhood paramedic

 

[Jefe1018]

Well actually your jeep is doing the tracking

So if it is indeed the opticom, from the way I understand it, it is a two way handshake and every device it interacts with is logged, this can be other emergency vehicles, many newer cars are getting factory installed sensors and we are getting alerts like we are talking about here, as well as the system communicating with infrastructure such as traffic lights. Case in point; every time, the system talks to something is time stamped and geocoded. The personnel on the emergency vehicle are responsible for not misusing the system, as well as for troubleshooting any technical issues, therefore it is all logged.

Well our phones track us? Hell doesn’t this website track and time stamps everything? Yes. But we choose to participate in the forum and to carry smart phone.

 

[Great Offender]

Either our ambulances don’t have this feature, or none of the vehicles on the road around here receive the signal.

Texas is not known to be on the forefront of any technological advances. I doubt we'll ever hear it.

 

[Teqsand]

So if it is indeed the opticom, from the way I understand it, it is a two way handshake and every device it interacts with is logged, this can be other emergency vehicles, many newer cars are getting factory installed sensors and we are getting alerts like we are talking about here, as well as the system communicating with infrastructure such as traffic lights. Case in point; every time, the system talks to something is time stamped and geocoded. The personnel on the emergency vehicle are responsible for not misusing the system, as well as for troubleshooting any technical issues, therefore it is all logged.

Well our phones track us? Hell doesn’t this website track and time stamps everything? Yes. But we choose to participate in the forum and to carry smart phone.

Ok so let's go with this, to what end, and what level of onboard tech would be required, for every vehicle that received a simple broadcast signal from a firetruck to respond back and that truck to record it... why? Seem like an over complication of a simple system for no net gain

 

[Stan H]

Never seen it in WV​

 

[jav_eee]

So if it is indeed the opticom, from the way I understand it, it is a two way handshake and every device it interacts with is logged, this can be other emergency vehicles, many newer cars are getting factory installed sensors and we are getting alerts like we are talking about here, as well as the system communicating with infrastructure such as traffic lights. Case in point; every time, the system talks to something is time stamped and geocoded. The personnel on the emergency vehicle are responsible for not misusing the system, as well as for troubleshooting any technical issues, therefore it is all logged.

Well our phones track us? Hell doesn’t this website track and time stamps everything? Yes. But we choose to participate in the forum and to carry smart phone.

Most opticom systems are just a transmitter and a receiver. The receiver sees the opticom signal and does its thing, there is no two-way communication of the system. In more advanced traffic control cabinets they CAN log and determine who is requesting right-of-way but thats mostly used to identify if there is higher priority traffic that needs the ROW. Metro buses versus ambulances, for example.

 

[jav_eee]

I just googled this "feature". It uses a completely different system and does indeed track your location and the location of emergency vehicles that use the HAAS Alert system. Interesting.

 

[sharpsicle]

If it doesn't know where you are, how would it know to alert or not alert you? This seems pretty self-explanatory...

 

[jav_eee]

If it doesn't know where you are, how would it know to alert or not alert you? This seems pretty self-explanatory...

well had it been Opticom then a sensor would literally see the signal (either visible or IR strobe lights) coming from the emergency vehicle. It doesn’t have to know where either one of you are other than you’re in front of the EV. A lot of radar detectors have this feature so I’m sure it’s not much to put it in a vehicle. That being said, FCA used a different cloud-based location service for these alerts so…..

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