Accident detection on iPhone 14 and Apple Watch goes on a roller coaster
Miscellaneous / / April 04, 2023
At the exit from the attraction, the rescue service may be waiting for users.
One of the main features of the line iPhone 14 and new Apple Watch models has become a car accident recognition feature that starts a countdown timer before calling the rescue service. How it works recently demonstrated the authors of the YouTube channel TechRax, who crashed a car for the sake of the experiment. Now on the web started there are messages that in some situations the function is mistaken and beats a false alarm.
So, several users of new Apple devices reported that their gadget recorded a car accident right while riding a roller coaster - with sudden braking and turning. That is, the device can take any sharp turn for a collision.
As a result, users had to make excuses for false calls to the rescue service, which had already come to amusement parks several times. So far, these are isolated cases, but over time there may be more of them, 911 employees say.
Similarly, Apple devices began to call the emergency services in situations where the owners dropped the smartphone in a moving car or on a motorcycle. A sharp change in the speed of movement and rotation of the gadget is recognized as an accident and also activates the 911 call function.
Apple has already promised to improve the technology so as not to create unnecessary problems for users.
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