Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Michael David Kaminski

Jeffrey Yizhou Hu

Michael Crimando

Derrick Portis

Austin Kirk

A system includes a processor configured to determine an applicable pre-defined vehicle system state set, defining preferred vehicle system states when a driver is away from a vehicle. The processor is also configured to determine a driver exit-event while a vehicle state in the state set varies from a preferred setting and notify a driver mobile device of the variance, responsive to the exit event.

Method and apparatus for vehicle-state alerts indicative of undesirable conditions

A vehicle includes one or more controllers, programmed to responsive to detecting an accident event and an unavailability of a telematics controller, generate an emergency message to broadcast by a radio-frequency identification (RFID) transceiver, and responsive to detecting a digital entity within a predetermined range from the vehicle, send the emergency message to the digital entity.

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Michael David Kaminski