EMERGENCY INFORMATION SYSTEM
DRIVE
March 13, 2002
The present invention provides an emergency communication system installed on a vehicle and for transmitting an emergency information in an emergency such as traffic accident, sudden illness, etc. to a center such as police station from an emergency communication conveying means installed on a vehicle, and it is used for the purpose of preventing inadvertent neglect of the connection of the handy phone to the system terminal unit when handy phone is used as the emergency communication conveying means. A control unit 12 judges whether or not the emergency communication conveying means 2 is connected to the emergency communication system terminal unit 1, or whether it is reliably operated or not. In case it is not connected or it is not connected normally, a signal is set to a vehicle starting system 4 to prohibit the starting operation of the vehicle. This information is displayed on LED or LCD on a dashboard of the vehicle by the information transmitting means 6, and it is further stored in a storage unit 15 so that it can be picked up from outside via an external equipment connection interface 7.
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