Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Hidehiko Anzai

Nobuaki Asahara

Ryoji Igarashi

According to a vehicular communication system () of the present invention, a probe information can be sent to a server () from a second vehicle (Q) out of an arbitrary number of second vehicles (Q) whose present position is located in a designated area whose information is included in a multicast received by the second vehicle (Q), in other words, a designated area with high necessity from the viewpoint of leading smoothly a first vehicle (Q) to a desired position (P). Also, the probe information can be collected in real time from the second vehicle (Q) which was present in the designated area in the past and is beyond the designated area at the present time in consideration of the high capability that it holds useful information in estimating the present state thereof in the designated area.

Vehicular communication system, vehicular information collecting system, and vehicular communication program

According to a vehicular communication system () of the present invention, a specified time slot in compliance with one broadcast time slot corresponded to one attribute pertinent to or possessed by a vehicle () among a plurality of attributes corresponded to a plurality of broadcast time slots of programs, respectively, according to the broadcast program list. Even though the IGN switch () of the vehicle () is set at the OFF state, the vehicular communication system () is operated or kept at the operating state so as to receive the program broadcasted in the specified time slot.

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Wako, Japan

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