Stellantis to do a large “Over-The-Air-Update” installing Emergency Vehicle Alert System

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The Jeep, Ram, Dodge and Fiat and Alfa Romeo vehicles will receive alerts when they near an emergency vehicle with its flashers lit. The feature, called the Emergency Vehicle Alert System (EVAS), will initially be available in North America, but Stellantis could roll it out across the

A record 63 U.S. emergency responders were killed in crashes last year, according to the Emergency Responder Safety Institute.
“It’s all about saving lives,” said Mamatha Chamarthi, Stellantis head of software business and product management.
Chamarthi tested EVAS in her plug-in hybrid Jeep Wrangler last summer.
“The system knows the location of the first responder, and it knows where our vehicle is,” she said. Alerts are geofenced. It only notifies drivers of nearby emergency vehicles and disregards those on the opposite-direction side of divided highways.

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