Vehicle Mayday I/F Functional Area

Description

In-vehicle capability for drivers or collision detection sensors onboard a vehicle to report an emergency and summon assistance.

Included In

Commercial Vehicles
Private Vehicles
CapMetro Lessee Freight Cars

Functional Requirements

IDRequirement
1The vehicle shall provide the capability for a driver to report an emergency and summon assistance.
2The vehicle shall provide the capability to accept input from a driver via a panic button or some other functionally similar form of input device provided as part of the in-vehicle equipment.
3The vehicle shall provide the capability to automatically identify that a collision has occurred using equipment such as collision detection sensors with an interface to mayday type equipment that would automatically detect vehicle problems and send appropriate distress signals to a center.
4The vehicle shall forward a request for assistance to a center containing the driver's current location, its identity and basic vehicle data relevant to its current condition, as well as any other data, such as personal medical history, vehicle orientation, etc., that may be developed in-vehicle by other systems.
5The vehicle shall acknowledge the driver's request for emergency assistance.
6The vehicle shall provide further details about the emergency to the center upon request from that function.