New equipment iPhone 14launched last month, Apple the safety feature for vehicle collision detection is enabled. The functionality is to allow users to quickly seek help in the event of an accident. The function, however, filing false positives when the device is with the user on a roller coaster, as reported Wall Street Journal.
According to the North American newspaper, the resource present in iphone 14 this is us Apple Watch The generation was started in amusement parks by user devices that kept the active feature enabled by default.
Since the iPhone 14 went on sale, the 911 dispatch service near the Kings Island amusement park has received at least six phone calls saying:
“The owner of this iPhone was in a serious car accident…”
Except the owner was just on a roller coaster.
New guidelines for parks against false positives
According to Coaster 101, an amusement park and roller coaster lighting portal, in some places in the United States, customers have been advised to disable this feature or put the device into flight mode before heading out on a roller coaster.
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How iPhone 14 Collision Detection Works
The safety function for detecting accidents uses iPhone 14 sensors as well as recent Apple Watch – such as a gyroscope, accelerometer and even a microphone – to interpret a car accident and call an emergency to help users.
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The security feature was introduced last week along with the new iPhone.
OUR Apple ensured at launch that its algorithm trained over 1 million hours to help execute the function, and that simply dropping the device, for example, would not activate the function. The problem with the rollercoaster situation is that the environment the devices encounter can be very similar to what it would encounter in a car collision, for example, which caused the false positives problem.
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Source: The Wall Street Journal, Coaster 101.
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