Patent attributes
A communication system for multiple vehicles includes a non-vehicle-based communication device operable to receive communications from vehicle-based communication devices of multiple vehicles and to transmit communications to the vehicle-based communication devices of multiple vehicles. Responsive to an occupant of a vehicle of the multiple vehicles rating or classifying an area at which the vehicle is traveling, the vehicle-based communication device of that vehicle communicates the rating or classification to the non-vehicle-based communication device. The vehicle-based communication device of that vehicle also communicates geographical location information pertaining to the area that is rated or classified. The non-vehicle-based communication device communicates the rating or classification for that area to other vehicle-based communication devices of other vehicles.