General Motors is one of the major bus frame chassis makers, these frames are then sold to OEM bus manufacturers or build by a division of General Motors. Since GM systems are generally interchangeable and since GM Hughes still has ties and supplies the communication to many GM in-car navigation systems like the award winning OnStar System, why not put these in all buses, but with a few extra features?

For instance I propose a feature, which would improve fuel efficiency, by communicating with the Satellite, which would have all the GIS elevation data of the roads and the GPS positioning system of where the bus was. If the bus came to a hill it would be able to use the same type of device, which opens your door to allow more fuel to the engine. If going down a hill then less. But why you ask? Well you should not have to ask if you are paying $80.00 to fill up your car. The School Districts are awfully burdened by the costs of diesel fuel at $3.19 national average per gallon. This cost affects education budgets.

With GIS information data sets figured into the GPS Navigational system it would be easy to do this. The XML database sets can be integrated that is not a problem. Then the Onstar could tell the navigational system that the elevation is changing for a hill. The engine would change for fuel setting for a lower gear or passing gear as the driver hit was one-third up the hill. The GIS-GPS system would tell satellite where it was and the satellite would tell the car that you were at higher altitude and to lean out the mixture of gas and air. This would be a fuel-efficient way to increase fuel mileage and performance and it is not only a smart idea, but also easy to engineer.

Additionally I would request that a Bus Shut off be installed to, which would turn off the EGT allowing no fuel to flow and the bus would shut down in the case of a bus hijacker or International Terrorist which might take control of the bus. Think on this.

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