Hi ArmyRangerRick, welcome back.

Those are some excellent survival tips and a good reason to stay with the vehicle. The vehicle can generate you lots of improvised signalling and survival equipment.

I have seen these methods in Ray Mears TV series Extreme Survival in an episode where he was demostrating survival techniques whilst in Driving in the Australian outback.

In your first survival tip about having three fires, the fires should be arranged in to a triangular formation about 25-50 yards apart around the vehicle if possible.