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I've read somewhere that ice skaters and low tier race car drivers are setting it off too. Emergency Services won't tolerate this much longer, they don't need more false alarms while trying to deal with the real mayhem out there.
This feature is a long way from being the life saving service it was advertised to be.
 
According to numerous articles, dispatch centers receive multiple accidental calls daily ever since cell phones became a necessity in today's world. Crash Detection didn't invent the 911 "butt dial." If accidental calls were that much of a problem, we would have heard about years ago.
The worst was when they defaulted 911 on for the power off button combo. My wife and a lot of other people I read had it happen
 
Dude, you just said the trail you were on was called “Tinkerbell”. Enough said

In the novel by JM Barrie that the movie was based on, Tinkerbell is a stone cold killer who carries a knife and tries to murder anyone who seems like a rival, including Wendy. You don't want to mess with the non-Disneyfied Tinkerbell.
 
That's what it does now. There's a countdown. The issue is that people don't notice it while skiing and doing other activities, especially with their ski gear on.



I know there’s a countdown. My point is that it should not wait for users to cancel the countdown, but just auto-cancel it if the phone is moving significantly.

If you’re seriously hurt in an accident it’s unlikely that you (and your phone in your pocket) starts moving. If you’re on a roller coaster or tumbles while skiing you’re likely to get up and start moving within a minute or so.
 
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I expect an Apple Crash+ subscription is needed, somehow.

Seriously, I get that false positives happen and the AI needs to learn a bit more to tell a real accident from an intended/natural situation, but it sounds a lot like this was released a little too early (not only because of false positives, but also when it doesn't detect anything in cases where it should).
I have a friend who has a Fitbit smart watch, and when he was playing golf, missed the ball completely and hit the ground. His watch called his wife because it thought he'd been in a car accident and was notifying his emergency contact. Point is, it's probably impossible to get any sort of accident detection to 100% or even 95%.
i WOULD be interested to see what happens on rollercoasters, though.
 
With many of the activations, people don't respond at first because they are unaware that the call was placed. "They're usually like, 'Oh, I'm sorry, I was skiing. Everything's fine,'" said Butterfield.

I would have said “Send an ambulance anyway, it’s just a matter of time”…
 
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