are well known in the art the resulting indices are provided to a message controller 43 which also receives a current geographic position from a gps receiver or a dead reckoning system not shown message controller 43 sends tagged ride quality data via a data network to an aggregating server as described below the vehicle system preferably operates according to a preferred method shown in fig5 in step 45 sensor data is collected from motion sensors within the suspension and wheels and various variables are computed in a suspension controller for controlling variable damping parameters using the computed variables and sensor data primary and secondary ride quality indices may be continuously calculated covering a predetermined distance in step 46 in order to minimize the volume of network traffic associated with the collection of ride quality data from a large number of vehicles a check is make in step 47 to determine whether a calculated index is greater than a predetermined threshold i e has a value indicating a sufficiently noticeable degradation in ride quality if a calculated index is not greater than the threshold then a return is made to step 45 for continuing to monitor ride quality otherwise the index values above the threshold are tagged with geographic coordinates in step 48 and then sent to the cloud based server in step 49 fig6 shows the cloud.