SICOM® Concept Overview

Comparative Travel Safety Modes (safest = #1) 1.Aircraft (non military) 2.Cruise Ships 3.Trains 4.Buses 5.Large Trucks 6.Auto & light trucks 7.Motorcycles 8.Campers The safest 3 modes of travel share an important ingredient the other 5 do not while moving over the surface of our planet: They are able to communicate with a controlling entity. They are able to communicate with each other. They are able to communicate with both. For those most dangerous modes, SICOM ® will help prevent rear end collisions with those accidents beginning with a rear crash that evolve into a more serious collision --- at worse, a domino effect resulting in the feared multiple vehicle collision.

What is SICOM ® and how does it work? SICOM ® consists of one or more lights of a legal color installed in the rear center of any vehicle using the worlds highways. It will be manufactured and installed to fit in harmony with any CHMSL (center high mounted stop lamp) which has been mandatory on all new automobiles since 1986 and on light trucks since It will also be available for the vast aftermarket configuration with easy installation. SICOM ® will operate totally independent of any current brake and brake light systems and it will silently communicate early warnings to following drivers that the brakes may or may not soon be applied to the vehicle in front. SICOM ® will have the ability to be manufactured so as to be visible to only the vehicle directly behind --- designed to avoid any nuisance to adjacent lanes. 1.A SICOM® equipped vehicle while traveling with the drivers right foot on the accelerator-- illuminates no SICOM® lights of any kind observed by the vehicle following, but waits silently to communicate --- in a microsecond. 2.When the forward driver senses a reason --- any reason, to slow or stop and relaxes or removes their foot from the accelerator, SICOM® instantly communicates to the vehicle behind. 3.In a microsecond, the driver following the SICOM ® equipped vehicle will instantly see the attention getting bright light momentarily and alert them. Then, that first attention getting light and a second light will illuminate and stay on until and unless the driver in front presses their accelerator to begin forward movement when all lights are off again and the SICOM ® is ready for another silent and safe communication. 4.SICOM ® is designed to return the “following” driver’s attention back to the road ahead--- whether it’s from talking to a passenger, a drowsy condition or dialing a cell phone, SICOM ® will grab their attention --- even their peripheral vision. Follow this example of one sequence:

Figure 1 Steady driving, foot on the accelerator. The driver following does not observe any reason for slowing. No SICOM ® lights or brake lights are illuminated. Figure 2 Driver of this SICOM ® equipped automobile observes something forward of their vehicle --- anything --- that causes their accelerator foot to relax or be removed from the pedal. The driver following is alerted by the police blue (or alternate legal color) strobe or LED in a micro instant (and only 1-5 times for fractions of a second). An additional bright yellow (or other accepted) light illuminates at exactly the same time and remains illuminated until and unless the accelerator is pressed for forward movement. This second light will be the steady “on” light (Figure 3) indicating the driver has not yet opted to re-new forward movement. Figure 3 The yellow lamp (or an alternative color) remains on any time the drivers accelerator foot remains relaxed or off of the accelerator pedal and serves as a continuous warning signal to following drivers that the brake lights could probably follow, either in a fraction of a second or not at all if the reason for slowing goes away and the driver presses the accelerator for continued forward movement. SICOM ® on all vehicles traveling our highways could make the “domino” 50+/- vehicle pileup a rarity.

Salient Points 1.SICOM® is much better in getting the attention of the driver behind --- better at overcoming some of the many things that compete for their attention including but not limited to: Drowsiness Distractions (inside and out) Cell phone conversations Children in the back seat Reading a map 2.When most vehicles are equipped with SICOM®, the multi car “domino effect” multi car pile-up will be reduced to a rarity. 3.When the drivers foot is relaxed on the accelerator and the engine idle is used for a coasting deceleration, a following driver maintains their awareness allowing them to make non panic decisions (many of them subconscious) and they follow suit to prevent closure. 4.For installation, SICOM® will be able to use the automobiles own computer to receive the various signals required for perfect procedures. Installation in older cars will still be possible even though they may not have an on board computer. 5.The familiarization and training to use SICOM® is very, very easy and is almost a natural extension of our driving abilities. 6.Presently we are planning to have SICOM® activated at or above the legal bumper design speed. A bump at these stop and go slow speeds would not have serious outcomes.

Summary SICOM ® can save lives, injuries, property damage and a host of other direct and indirect health and safety issues. The cost of this device when mass produced is comparable to the successful aftermarket center mounted stop light that was marketed prior to Nearly everyone will embrace the attributes of SICOM ® i.e. Insurance companies, consumers, etc. How many times have we said (or thought) that if we as the driver following behind another had some kind of earlier warning, even split seconds, that the driver in front had stepped off the gas and could be poised to hit his brakes…. Lives and property damages, literally could be saved.