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Crash Detection uses more than accelerometer and gyroscope input. Another major item it uses is listening for overall sound/noise from the microphones -- if it'
by kotaKat 3y ago
Crash Detection uses more than accelerometer and gyroscope input. Another major item it uses is listening for overall sound/noise from the microphones -- if it's loud, it's assuming a crash. Screaming and howling and bumping and grinding around the phone has no other clue other than "I must be in a crash".
It leverages the GPS, microphone, barometer, Bluetooth, Carplay status, accelerometer, and gyroscope in a sensor fusion.
- pc86 3y agoDoesn't that just make it even more embarrassing that this is happening then? No Carplay connection, mostly stationary on the GPS, gyroscope and accelerometer not showing anything near the signs of a crash. But, "it's loud" so let's call 911.
- nucleardog 3y agoI don't think we know what it _actually_ detected these events as. Gizmodo is reporting car crashes, but I don't think there's any way for them to know that. The actual setting for the apple watch calls it a "severe crash" and has triggered for people crashing bicycles and things. There's also a separate "fall detection" setting that will call after a hard fall if you're not moving.
- stronglikedan 3y agoIf it's going off from dancing, then all that still isn't enough to justify its existence.