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What if you come home after a bad day in a bad mood and throw your watch down on the nightstand? Will an ambulance show up at your house?
by cabaalis 7y ago
What if you come home after a bad day in a bad mood and throw your watch down on the nightstand? Will an ambulance show up at your house?
- brianwawok 7y agoHopefully it has a heart beat detector That said, the cupholder in my riding lawn mower squeezes my iPhone 8 buttons into SoS mode. The first time it called 911 and I picked it up 30 minutes to a missed call and a text. No ambulance. Next time I mowed it, it called 911 again. No call and no text. I guess I made the 911 pranker list? Yay? Hopefully I don’t need it. Wonder what makes this guy get an ambulance and me in South Bend Indiana get one text?
- snuxoll 7y agoFall detection on Apple Watch doesn’t just dial emergency services like Emergency SOS does, they could hear you mowing your lawn and probably assumed you called by mistake (it happens). When fall detection activates a 60 second timer starts and the watch vibrates like mad trying to get your attention, if you do not dismiss the alert not only does it dial emergency services and text your location to registered emergency contacts, it actually starts speaking to the operator stating that you have fallen as well as providing your GPS coordinates. The assumption is that you manually activating emergency SOS implies you are alert enough to speak with the operator, but somebody unresponsive after a fall needs the device to ensure they get assistance even though they are incapacitated.
- brianwawok 7y agoAh that is good.
- wayneftw 7y agoYeah or like, what if you just fall and decide to stay laying down for a minute but you’re actually fine? I wonder if the fall has to happen in combination with some other health metrics that it senses? Does there even need to be a falling down? What if you have a heart attack while you’re strapped into your parked car and you don’t fall? Does it call then?
- djrogers 7y agoIt alarms (rather loudly for a tiny watch) and taps you vigorously asking if you're ok before calling. You have plenty of time to cancel the call to emergency services before it's made.
- Watabou 7y agoWSJ tested some of these scenarios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7xI2dUPN3A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7xI2dUPN3A Seems very hard to trigger inadvertently, so it makes sense to me that they use an algorithm that factors in the heart rate and the fall trajectory and velocity.
- earless1 7y agoThe watch deactivates most features and locks as soon as you take it off of your wrist. You'd need to re-enter your password to unlock it. so it is unlikely that throwing it would trigger the feature. Also from their initial demo, the fall detection uses more input than just a fast falling motion. Apparently humans fall in a specific way that the watch detects
- dwighttk 7y agoHopefully it is better at detecting hard falls than my series2 was at detecting the beginning of a swimming workout... I'd be driving down the road at 30 mph brushing my hair and my apple watch would ask me if I was starting a swimming workout. And I had to turn the knob to unlock to tell it no because it automatically locks you down when a swimming workout starts.