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Most of the emergencies I hear about are things where you probably won't die for at least a day or two, and some of these places are only a 20 minute drive from
by eternityforest 3y ago
Most of the emergencies I hear about are things where you probably won't die for at least a day or two, and some of these places are only a 20 minute drive from the nearest police station, just hidden behind a hill or something from the cell tower.
The most experienced people probably aren't gonna die unless something really bad happens where minutes count, but the rest of us might have issues like "Hey I followed Google maps here but nothing looks at all like the map so I'm stuck in a jail made of boulders somehow".
With navigation problems it seems pointless to try and figure out what problems are possible or likely, it's relying on spatial abilities that can't be put into words, if you're not good at that stuff you can make mistakes that seem almost impossible to mess up.
You basically feel like you've been spun on a carousel, blindfolded, and airdropped in a random place, while hallucinating, and you have no idea how any of it happened.
One should probably not go to dangerous places assuming someone will always be able to save them, but it really does seem like this would make a big difference.
On the other hand, if someone is lost, it could be because they didn't have any battery left, and if someone was unprepared and got themselves into trouble, they may well have also forgotten to bring a power bank....
- bestnameever 3y agoI know of someone who died on a generally safe day hike. People had to hike out and then drive to get cell service for a rescue. If it was a few months later, an iPhone likely would had saved it. It was never reported in the news.
- ChatGTP 3y agoGenuinely curious, how would the iPhone have saved them ?
- rattt 3y agoPresumably referring to iPhone 14+ satelite emergency texting https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213426 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213426
- ChatGTP 3y agoI assume so, just wondering what would've happened if they had the phone, how far were they from the rescue service, what was the circumstances etc.