Received 71 false positives caused by skiing last weekend, Apple iPhone "car accident detection" takes up a lot of rescue resources.
CTOnews.com, December 27 (Xinhua) since iPhone 14 and Apple Watch Series 8 launched the "car accident detection" feature in September this year, 911 and emergency dispatchers across the United States have received a large number of false positives. Rescuers were miserable when the 911 rescue team in Samet County, Colorado, received 71 false positives from four ski resorts over the weekend, all caused by skiers accidentally triggering the "car accident detection" function.
CTOnews.com learned that many Americans choose skiing to relax during the Christmas holiday, so 12 counties known for skiing, including Grand County, Eagle County, Pitkin County, Routt County and Summit County, have received a large number of false alarms about "car accident detection" caused by skiing.
Local dispatchers are struggling to deal with a large number of false positives from skiers, which takes up a lot of emergency response resources. When a 911 call comes in, each call is processed in the order in which it arrives, so an automatic call from a skier's phone may delay the response to a 911 call that is actually in emergency.
911 dispatchers are not trained to ignore calls, which means that even accidental calls caused by the functions of iPhone 14 must be handled and resources allocated. Trina Dummer, interim director of the Samet County 911 Centre: "these calls take up a lot of resources, from dispatchers to deputies to ski patrols."
