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iPhone 14's Crash Detection Mistaking Roller Coaster Rides for Car Crashes
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My watch called emergency services during sex…..embarrassing.
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Interesting that samifathi’s original post “Who takes their iPhone on a roller coaster in the first place?” is no longer available.
tell me you’re an Apple butt-kisser without telling me youre an Aplle butt-kisser.
No. Treating amusement parks as 'exclusion zones' for this feature IS a dumb idea, for a thousand and one reasons, not least of which being that you don't want it to ignore any genuine crash you might have within the 'exclusion zone'.
Also on the list of a thousand and one reasons is that a world exists outside of America, and this suggestion implies that someone somewhere is maintaining a database of where all the Amusement Parks are throughout the world in order to exclude them.
Not far from where I live is the UK's (debatably) most famous Amusement Park with a coaster track about 30ft from the main road. But this dumb suggestion would have crashes on that main road potentially excluded, depending on how accurate the GPS 'exclusion zone' is.
So yeah. It's a dumb idea. End of debate. I know most things are just down to opinion, but this is objectively dumb.
The problem is their phones and watches never should have been on the rollercoaster since they can potentially fly off and severely hurt somebody. It sounds like the people who are identified by the 911 call need to be banned from the amusement park.
OnStar has been having false positives for years. Lots of videos out there where the onStar agent comes on while the cars are on drag strips, race tracks, etc. Where there are lots of high G loading events.
They called multiple times during one lap..
it will take a few years of edge cases to refine the algorithms. I would rather talk to the 911 center than die in a ravine or at the bottom of a hill where no one saw me slide off the road.
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So you’re just gonna leave your $1600 device in an unsecured little box til you get off?
Kind of seems like a location aware device should be smart enough to not trigger a car crash alert in a place where you can't drive and where there are roller coasters.
I wear climbing shorts every time I go to a theme park all the pockets have zippers.
I have to ask what kind of mental gymnastics someone plays in their head that they think an Apple Watch can come off one’s body on a roller coaster.
Are you SURE you are doing it right?
100% of rollercoasters I've ridden, I've had my phone on me.
Easy fix for Apple. Tag the location of these rides and then disable the feature when the user is there.
Also it ASKS if you wanna call emergency services. Nothing wrong here except a slight fun "annoyance" we can laugh at.
Also it ASKS if you wanna call emergency services. Nothing wrong here except a slight fun "annoyance" we can laugh at.
My 14 Pro Max fits perfectly fine. I have my phone on me every single ride I ride.
Ah... the usual internet "I'm smarter than Apple engineers" post.
There's some features WE just don't think about ok? 😉
What if you get in a car accident on the highway after a long drive and falling asleep? I'm sure the lizard watching will pull out his iPhone.
Depending on the Apple Watch band you are using they can come off and I have had my Apple Watch band fall off randomly over the year and a half of ownership. When you are on a roller coaster you are subjected to intense g forces. In addition how many people have causal pants that have zipper at an amusement park? Keep in mind people have been injured from lose objects on rollercoasters and some have made the news.
I’m just here to offer my gratitude to the MR community — the sycophants specifically — for this unintentionally hilarious example of what passes for argument. There are too many posts to cite. The continued defense of Apple by any means has made a truly enjoyable wake-up read with my morning coffee.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Sorry, but having geofencing for amusement parks isn't a complete solution - what about the travelling carnivals / circus?
Easiest solution would be to duplicate "Theatre Mode" - just have a toggle "Ride Mode" - where you expect to get hard jostles which could trigger crash mode.
(Also, depending on bluetooth/CarPlay connections doesn't jive either - that's (typically) only protecting the driver). Me, I think the passengers are important too.
Easiest solution would be to duplicate "Theatre Mode" - just have a toggle "Ride Mode" - where you expect to get hard jostles which could trigger crash mode.
(Also, depending on bluetooth/CarPlay connections doesn't jive either - that's (typically) only protecting the driver). Me, I think the passengers are important too.
Perhaps, but something tells me Apple will generalise this to falls (if they haven't done so already). The population is getting older and falling and breaking hips and other bones is not uncommon. Also, with regard to car crash detection, some people ride as passengers (e.g., taxi's) so the feature might be useful to them in spite of not being wired to the car.
If you look at the most popular theme parks in the US -- Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Orlando, they have very different rules on phones. Disney World pretty much allow phones on any every ride, it's your responsibility to keep them secure. But they do provide "pockets" on the ride to store your loose items.
For Universal, they do have certain extreme rides (not all of their coasters, just some) where they do not allow any devices, to the point where they provide secure lockers, that are free for short usage and lock/unlock by fingerprint, and you have to pass through a metal detector to ride. The reason for this is from a real injury, years back an item (I'm pretty sure a phone) fell out of someone's pocket and hit someone else in the face, causing them to lose an eye.
I hope you got the money to pay for the lawsuit when you are sued by an ambulance chasing lawyer when your phone comes out and injuries a person.
I took my iPhone 14 Pro onto several roller coasters right after getting it and was fine. All they need to do is geofence amusement parks (except for the parking lot) to turn off crash detection since you can’t drive your car inside anyway.
Lots of weird comments today. People really think people don’t bring their iPhone in their pocket everywhere they go including roller coasters? Weird. Also people saying they’ll turn off crash detection because someone else will see them crash and call 911? That’s a hell of an assumption to make. Pray you never crash on a back road late at night. Or even during the day, down an embankment after rounding a corner to avoid hitting a deer and within seconds your car is crashed into a tree down in the forest and nobody saw it happen and nobody saw you disappear into the brush. The whole reason this feature exists is to get medical attention ASAP which is critical in emergencies!
Lots of weird comments today. People really think people don’t bring their iPhone in their pocket everywhere they go including roller coasters? Weird. Also people saying they’ll turn off crash detection because someone else will see them crash and call 911? That’s a hell of an assumption to make. Pray you never crash on a back road late at night. Or even during the day, down an embankment after rounding a corner to avoid hitting a deer and within seconds your car is crashed into a tree down in the forest and nobody saw it happen and nobody saw you disappear into the brush. The whole reason this feature exists is to get medical attention ASAP which is critical in emergencies!