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A vehicle monitoring and notification system includes a mapping application and a data manager. The mapping application receives data identifying a particular location and automatically translates this data into a set of location values. The mapping application then stores the foregoing set of locat

A vehicle monitoring and notification system includes a mapping application and a data manager. The mapping application receives data identifying a particular location and automatically translates this data into a set of location values. The mapping application then stores the foregoing set of location values. The data manager retrieves the stored set of location values and monitors travel of a vehicle based on location values produced by a location sensor coupled to the vehicle. The data manager compares a set of location values produced by the sensor to the stored set of location values to determine when the vehicle is within a predefined proximity of the particular location. When the data manager determines that the vehicle is within the predefined proximity of the particular location, the data manager causes a notification message to be transmitted to a user communications device to notify a user of an impending arrival of the vehicle at the particular location.

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A vehicle monitoring and notification system includes a mapping application and a data manager. The mapping application receives data identifying a particular location and automatically translates this data into a set of location values. The mapping application then stores the foregoing set of locat

A vehicle monitoring and notification system includes a mapping application and a data manager. The mapping application receives data identifying a particular location and automatically translates this data into a set of location values. The mapping application then stores the foregoing set of location values. The data manager retrieves the stored set of location values and monitors travel of a vehicle based on location values produced by a location sensor coupled to the vehicle. The data manager compares a set of location values produced by the sensor to the stored set of location values to determine when the vehicle is within a predefined proximity of the particular location. When the data manager determines that the vehicle is within the predefined proximity of the particular location, the data manager causes a notification message to be transmitted to a user communications device to notify a user of an impending arrival of the vehicle at the particular location. ch is running ahead of the vehicle; a manual vehicular velocity setting section enabled to manually set a set vehicular velocity; a vehicular velocity controller to perform a vehicular velocity control in such a manner that the inter-vehicle distance is substantially made equal to a target inter-vehicle distance set on the basis of at least the vehicular velocity during a presence of the preceding vehicle detected by the inter-vehicle distance detector and in such a manner that the vehicular velocity is substantially made equal to the set vehicular velocity through the manual vehicular velocity setting section during an absence of the preceding vehicle; a road surface frictional coefficient detector to detect a road surface frictional coefficient of a road surface; and an upper limit vehicular velocity setting section that sets an upper limit value of the vehicular velocity for the vehicular velocity control in accordance with the detected road surface frictional coefficient, below the upper limit value of which the vehicular velocity controller is enabled to perform the vehicular velocity control, in such a manner that as the road surface frictional coefficient becomes lower, the upper limit value becomes lower; wherein the road surface frictional coefficient detector comprises a road surface frictional coefficient detecting section that acquires a road surface frictional coefficient information from a road surface frictional coefficient measuring facility installed aside the road surface through a wireless communication and that detects the road surface frictional coefficient of the road surface placed in a vehicular forwarding direction. 6. A vehicular velocity controlling system comprising: a vehicular velocity detector to detect a vehicular velocity; an inter-vehicle distance detector to detect an inter-vehicle distance from a vehicle to a preceding vehicle which is running ahead of the vehicle; a manual vehicular velocity setting section enabled to manually set a set vehicular velocity; a vehicular velocity controller to perform a vehicular velocity control in such a manner that the inter-vehicle distance is substantially made equal to a target inter-vehicle distance set on the basis of at least the vehicular velocity during a presence of the preceding vehicle detected by the inter-vehicle distance detector and in such a manner that the vehicular velocity is substantially made equal to the set vehicular velocity through the manual vehicular velocity setting section during an absence of the preceding vehicle; a road surface frictional coefficient detector to detect a road surface frictional coefficient of a road surface; and an upper limit vehicular velocity setting section that sets an upper limit value of the vehicular velocity for the vehicular velocity control in accordance with the detected road surface frictional coefficient, below the upper limit value of which the vehicular velocity controller is enabled to perform the vehicular velocity control, in such a manner that as the road surface frictional coefficient becomes lower, the upper limit value becomes lower; wherein the road surface frictional coefficient detector comprises a road surface frictional coefficient detecting section that acquires a road surface frictional coefficient information from the preceding vehicle through a wireless communication and that detects the road surface frictional coefficient of the road surface placed in a vehicular forwarding direction. 7. A vehicular velocity controlling system as claimed in claim 6, wherein the upper limit vehicular velocity setting section comprises a setting section that sets the upper limit value of the vehicular velocity which accords with the road surface frictional coefficient placed in the vehicular forwarding direction when the road surface frictional coefficient placed in the vehicular forwarding direction is varied to a smaller value and the vehicular velocity controller controls th