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Your cell phone could easily call for help in a crash without the car being involved at all.

• Loughla 20d ago
  Not if I'm unconscious?
  • Chaosvex 20d ago
    iPhones actually can. I'm guessing some Androids have an equivalent.
    • fn-mote 20d ago
      Apple Watch for sure. It seems like you have been in an accident. Hit this button to cancel or EMS will be called.
  • aceazzameen 20d ago
    Other drivers will phone it in. This isn't a concern for me at all, but I suppose it could be if you lived in a low population area.
    • b0rtb0rt 20d ago
      other drivers will assume someone else already called it in and drive past
      • 1over137 20d ago
        Good god thats a bleak thought, where do you live that people behave like that?!
        • hdgvhicv 20d ago
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
    • hdgvhicv 20d ago
      Not when you go off the side into a ditch
  • Retric 20d ago
    From a cellphone’s perspective a crash = extreme acceleration with different vectors vs a dropped phone, they can also listen for broken glass etc. So even with GPS off that’s detectable. iPhone 14+ and Android 12+ https://en.androidsis.com/How-to-activate-automatic-accident-and-emergency-alerts-on-Android/ https://en.androidsis.com/How-to-activate-automatic-accident...
    • luz666 20d ago
      Interesting info/link, thanks for sharing. Generally I read your comment that a dropped phone only hits the floor once, therefore there is only one vector and the car always overturns/flips/turns and therefore there are multiple vectors measurable in the car? I am not convinced yet, it might be possible without GPS, at least to some degree of error (false positives and false negatives). The info in the link requires GPS to be switched on. hmm