Vehicle-to-vehicle communication system and method

A vehicle has a Global Satellite Navigation System receiver to determine a current location, a microphone to capture a voice command of a user and a processor executing a speech recognition module to process the voice command to determine that the user is requesting that a call be initiated a nearby vehicle and to determine from the voice command of the user a visual identification of the nearby vehicle to call. The vehicle includes a radiofrequency cellular transceiver cooperating with the processor to transmit the visual identification of the nearby vehicle and the current location to the remote server and to receive from the remote server a communication-availability of the nearby vehicle. The processor cooperates with the radiofrequency cellular transceiver or with a short-range vehicle-to-vehicle transceiver of the vehicle to initiate a voice communication with the one of the nearby vehicles with which the user wishes to initiate the call.