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All of those services rely on manual intervention from staff in a call center. If any of those services have reached the point that the end device can detect a
by wtracy 7y ago
All of those services rely on manual intervention from staff in a call center.
If any of those services have reached the point that the end device can detect an emergency and contact local emergency services by itself, then they've done a terrible job of advertising that functionality.
- FireBeyond 7y agoI do have a horse in the race. Not the one you might think, but as a paramedic/firefighter, I'm not sure you can argue that "attempts to verify (human or otherwise) that there is a medical incident before dispatching EMS" is automatically worse than "calls 911 from the device automatically". > If any of those services have reached the point that the end device can detect an emergency and contact local emergency services by itself, then they've done a terrible job of advertising that functionality. They all have (see my sibling comment about Automatic Fall Detection), and I agree.
- pseudalopex 7y agoApple watches have audible and haptic alerts and a delay before calling emergency services.