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It's a fundamentally stupid idea, the sensors in the watch are woefully insufficient to detect such an event with any reasonable amount of precision. Bumping yo
by manholio 4y ago
It's a fundamentally stupid idea, the sensors in the watch are woefully insufficient to detect such an event with any reasonable amount of precision. Bumping your watch into a tree would generate massive G forces, hitting your head while your arms are flailing would barely register.
At minimum, it would require biosensors that detect the owner is still wearing the watch yet his life signs are significantly perturbed from the norm: irregular heart beat and oxygen saturation, hypothermia, AI-informed sound interpretation for things like gasping for air etc.
- colechristensen 4y agoYou don’t know what you’re talking about. It is not as dumb as just looking for spikes in acceleration, but specific patterns and integrating acceleration to get position and velocity history in order to match situations that look like car crashes. Obviously the real world is demonstrating some bugs with bad matches that didn’t get found in testing, but this isn’t surprising or some big failure. Unfortunate it is bothering emergency workers, but is it actually impacting emergency services?
- bmitc 4y agoIt doesn’t appear Apple knows what they’re talking about or doing.
- nickthegreek 4y agoMine only goes off when I fall.. so I do think they know what they are doing. My mother is 72 and lives alone, I plan to get her an apple watch specifically to detect falls as I have been very impressed with its ability to detect them.
- manholio 4y ago> specific patterns and integrating acceleration to get position and velocity history in order to match situations that look like car crashes And that's a fundamentally stupid idea. > is it actually impacting emergency services? Yes, but that's an externality, so don't worry about it.