A system and method for allowing vehicle occupants to wirelessly chat with each other over
a DSRC channel. A vehicle occupant may initiate a chatting session by wirelessly
transmitting a request to speak with an occupant of another vehicle in its vicinity on a certain
topic in a multi-hop manner. If the request is accepted by the occupant of another vehicle to
enter into a chatting session on that topic, a wireless communications link is established
between the two vehicles, where messages may be transmitted through other intermediate …