From Rolfe Winkler’s “Apple Wants iPhones to Detect Car Crashes, Auto-Dial 911” posted Monday by the Wall Street Journal:
Beginning next year, iPhone users who are in a car accident could have their phone dial 911 automatically.
Apple Inc. AAPL -0.73% plans next year to roll out a product feature called “crash detection” for iPhones and Apple Watches, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and people familiar with the feature.
Crash detection uses data from sensors built into Apple devices including the accelerometer to detect car accidents as they occur, for instance by measuring a sudden spike in gravity, or “g,” forces on impact…
Apple has been testing the crash-detection feature in the past year by collecting data shared anonymously from iPhone and Apple Watch users, the documents show. Apple products have already detected more than 10 million suspected vehicle impacts, of which more than 50,000 included a call to 911.
Ex friend-of-the-blog Fred Stein, who spotted the item: Recall that Horace said Apple could feature safety or “safest” as part of positioning when/if they enter EV / AV.
See also: Horace Dediu: Why Apple isn’t ready to disrupt transportation (video)
Where’s Fred – he’s my favourite commenter.
I suspect that owners of Apple watches may already be alerting to some degree….
apple is retracting stock
why value a company which main business is printing stock?
compared to tesla apple is heavily undervalued one can not imagen how much.
but competitors of tesla have a problem with these kind of valuations.
i am scared one day Tesla will cause a big stock market crash
iPhone knows when you are sleeping,
iPhone knows when you’re awake.
iPhone knows if you’ve been bad or good
Or if you’ve crashed your car for goodness sake!
Still hats off to hosts PED and RPL and panelist Horace.