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iPhone and Apple Watch could get car crash detection
Wow. Apple products have already detected more than 10 million suspected vehicle impacts, according to a new report that claims Apple will bring a crash-detection feature to iPhone and Apple Watch.
The feature will work like fall detection, which is already built into Apple Watch. If an iPhone of Watch detects an impact, it'll give users the ability to call 911 -- or initiate the call automatically if there's no response.
Apple's been quietly gathering data behind the scenes in order to tune its crash-detection algorithm. A similar feature is already available for Google's new Pixel smartphones.
I have a version of this on my bicycle computer. It doesn't work that well, unfortunately. A couple of times it's misreported crashes that never happened. And it failed to report the one real crash I had when I rear-ended a car (everyone was fine).
I assume detecting a crash is harder than it looks. Let's hope Apple gets it right before rolling it out next year.
-- Leander Kahney, EIC.
The feature is said to use existing sensors like the accelerometer and gyroscope, already baked into both devices, to measure sudden spikes in movement or force that will allow them to “detect car accidents as they occur.”
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