The new car accident detection feature of the Apple iPhone and Apple Watch will automatically seek help from the emergency room when there is a danger of a car accident, but due to the imperfection of the system,When the user is riding a roller coaster or skiing, the “car crash detection” function may be activated accidentally,These false positives increase the rescuers’ task.
Dwight Yochim, senior manager of the Search and Rescue Association of Columbia, Canada, said he received at least three false alarms: after rescuers arrived at the scene, they found that no one was injured, so the organization contacted Apple. The car accident detection function has been updated.
Yochim said that when emergency help was received, they had to go out immediately because they didn’t know if anyone was really trapped. Everyone stopped their work and even had to send a helicopter, but it turned out that no one was injured.
This takes a lot of saving resources, and Yochim hopes that after the new version update, such things can be greatly reduced.
In fact, Apple’s car accident detection function, someone mentioned its false alarm when it was released. When passengers in the amusement park experience weightlessness or other high-speed flip sports, they will often get reminders of car crash alert from Apple.
In this regard, Apple has launched a software update package to optimize the recognition of road accidents.But from the current point of view, this optimization has not completely solved the problem caused by false positives.
