Crash detection is one of those features you forget about having on your watch or phone, but it makes a huge impact when it’s needed.
These are the sorts of features that I am always wholeheartedly on-board with. Ones that work in the background with little to no input that work when required to improve the user’s everyday lives.
After recently finding out that my mother knocked herself unconscious some time ago while she was alone and woke up after almost half an hour had past I’m tempted to buy her an Apple Watch for some peace of mind. To be clear, it’s not a small purchase for me just as a gift but she’s recently had a couple of falls as well so it’s getting concerning.
Assuming she bothers to wear the damn thing. My grandmother on my father’s side once had a fall incident that led to a hospitalization, so the family chipped in to buy her an Apple Watch because it has fall detection. But she’s too embarrassed to wear it, so it lives permanently on her nightstand, even though so many of us have smart watches of our own.
I really hope they keep tuning it to fix the false positives but this is a really amazing feature. Same with fall detection (both amazing and a little false triggering).
I was in a serious car accident in 2008 in my BMW ($30k in car damage, $185k in medical bills) and when I got out of the car and called 911, they told me that the car had already called them and they were on the way. It’s 15 years later and most cars STILL don’t have this feature, so it’s great to have something that does. It will and has saved lives.
Yeah, I almost upgraded my watch just for the crash detection. Now m thinking about that again but it seems a shame to replace my series 6 so soon