Because of a roller coaster: the iPhone 14 reports a car accident - and calls emergency forces
The iPhone 14's traffic accident detection feature is giving Apple real-world problems - and calling the emergency services in vain.
The company says: The feature underwent training based on more than a million hours of information from traffic accidents
Yanon ben Shoshan
11/10/2022
Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 2:50 p.m. Updated: 3:15 p.m.
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Roller coaster, iPhone (Photo: ShutterStock, Apple)
This is what Apple did not think about:
the 'traffic accident detection' feature that Apple implemented in the iPhone 14 models is designed to detect serious traffic accidents - such as frontal accidents, side accidents and rear accidents, as well as rollovers.
As soon as the iPhone detects an accident - an automatic message is sent to close people defined in advance, automatically alerting the emergency services of the accident and sending the exact location of the user.
But now, in real life, we are witnessing unexpected malfunctions.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the new feature falsely called emergency crews and reported a serious car accident.
The common cause of all the reports: riding a roller coaster with the iPhone 14. The Wall Street Journal reports on at least six different incidents in which emergency services were called in vain.
The reason for the wrong identification of the iPhone is rapid acceleration - and braking, as occurs during a car accident.
The iPhone 14 uses the precise motion sensors, the gyroscope, the accelerometer with gravity acceleration sensing, the GPS, the barometer, and the microphone (to detect noises characteristic of an accident, such as shattering glass or the sound of a crash) together with sophisticated software algorithms, all working together to detect the situation that is not Pleasant of a car accident.
A spokesperson for the company stated in response to the publication that the feature underwent training based on more than a million hours of information from traffic accidents, and driving analysis in the real world and in the laboratory.
In addition, he noted that several tests have already been done to test the accuracy of the crash detection of the iPhone 14, with variable results, and will include further improvements in the future.
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