Hopefully it's calibrated well, to not think that if the phone is in a car that's doing legitimate racing/track days, that it won't think hard braking or cornering is a 'crash'. A few years ago OnStar would come on while someone was doing laps in a Corvette at a track and asked if they were OK. 😆
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I looked up the G forces triggered by car accidents. Typically a 30mph crash will cause at least 30G of force on the items traveling in the car. Much more if there’s no seatbelt. Meaning if you toss your phone onto your bed or fall off a ladder it won’t be enough to trigger this. The new sensor can detect up to 256G of force.
Uh oh, might want to get your stories straight before you two come back into the room!
What about extreme athletes? Skiing? Red Bull Challenges. I'm sure we'll find out.
Sure, we’re talking about a discrepancy of about half a year. I’ll admit I was wrong in stating the feature launched in 2018. It launched in 2019, but was made available for the pixel 3, which was launched in November 2018. The point being made though is that the person we were quoting was telling us all that they stay with Apple because other phone manufacturers are not bringing innovation to the market. That’s simply not true.
I have a 7 and was walking and slipped down a ramp last week, twisted, and landed hard on my arm; so much it is still painful nearly a week later. My watch is set for FD always on. It did not peep a tap or message to me after.
Not really. It uses a combination of sensors including atmospheric pressure to detect air bag deployment, microphones for sounds, etc. Also, no roller coaster gets even close to the extreme accelerations that happen in a car crash. Highest g-force roller coaster in the world is 6.3 g.
Yeah I was mostly being facetious about your comments. I’m glad they have that feature! I wonder how accurate it is though. Apple markets a new accelerometer capable of measuring 256G’s of force. Roller coasters typically weigh in at 6G or so max it seems. Google’s site says it’s possible to trigger it falsely, which makes me think either that’s lawyer-speak or the sensors aren’t as fine tuned as they should be.
Then there’s the 60 second countdown vs 10 seconds. Is that because they’re worried there may be more false alarms triggered? Is there much of a difference to saving someone’s live over 50 extra seconds? Maybe. But then again maybe not.
Either way, I hope both features save lives.
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You can check here for an example of computation: https://physics.stackexchange.com/q...ulate-gs-seen-by-a-dropped-object-upon-impact . Once you get the result you may be surprised (btw the page that you provide does not directly compute acceleration).
Yeah I saw that google result when I did a quick search. Not entirely scientific in their estimates, since there are so many variables.
Plus I would assume that the phone knew you were traveling at a certain G or speed already and then suddenly stopped, instead of barely moving and then suddenly a jolt from hitting the ground.