14 ms·
Seems like a strange place to lay the blame. A trainer repeatedly dialed 112 through Siri. The 112 operator heard the word "shot" in the background and called i
by c3534l 4y ago
Seems like a strange place to lay the blame. A trainer repeatedly dialed 112 through Siri. The 112 operator heard the word "shot" in the background and called in emergency services.
People have found all sorts of ways to accidentally dial numbers before. Normally you don't blame the phone and talk about it as if it acted of its own volition. I guess that barrier of "volition" is starting to breakdown in people's minds. We expect the phone to identify our own operator error and correct it, then blame the phone for its actions in being operated.
- gus_massa 4y agoDoesn't Sire have a magic word to activate it like "okgoogle"? If I go to the supermarket and some product cost $112, is Siri going to call 112 for me?
- mcbutterbunz 4y agoNewer models don’t require you to use “Hey Siri”, you simply hold the watch up to your mouth and start talking.
- gnarlysasquatch 4y agoYou can also activate it by holding the crown button, which I recently discovered happening “on its own” while wearing work gloves.
- gs17 4y agoUnless they fixed it, it even calls it from numbers that aren't emergency services in your area (an old "prank" told people to ask Siri about the number 108).
- nimbius 4y agoI was a soldier in the Iraq war. What's not being discussed is the utter failure of Australian police. Random noise and keywords should never be enough to send a full dynamic team...at best its suicide and you don't have any picture of what's really going on. Totally inexcusable ops tempo. This is a school, you could have called any number of lines to confirm an issue. You have CCTV, you have datapoints. That no one was shot and killed is a miracle in my opinion.
- shortcake27 4y ago> That no one was shot and killed is a miracle in my opinion In Australia the police generally don’t just show up and shoot people.
- hansvm 4y agoTheir rate of doing so is currently 3x lower than the USA per capita, and rising quickly primarily because of shit like what happened in the article. It's better there, but it's still a problem.
- midoridensha 4y agoLuckily, police in other countries like Australia are not like American police.