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iPhone 14 Pro Multiple deaths in major crash detected by IPhone

That's really great though. My family keeps telling me to share my location while on road trips, but I keep forgetting. This is good, since it's automatic.

Unless I get kidnapped.
 
Abazigal said:
I just came from reddit reading this. I thought it was odd that a report involving a traffic accident would cite an iphone feature in the headline. A way of attracting more readers perhaps?
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Was probably cited because the crash victims weren’t laying out there for hours before help arrived
 
Abazigal said:
I just came from reddit reading this. I thought it was odd that a report involving a traffic accident would cite an iphone feature in the headline. A way of attracting more readers perhaps?
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Bingo. Any way to put Apple in a headline will attract clicks / readers.

Nobody cares if Onstar detects a crash and contacts emergency services.
 
deeddawg said:
Bingo. Any way to put Apple in a headline will attract clicks / readers.

Nobody cares if Onstar detects a crash and contacts emergency services.
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I didn’t think anything of it. The iPhone crash detection was just part of a tragic event.
Onstar contacting emergency services is probably pretty common. Onstar has been available for quite awhile.
 
deeddawg said:
Bingo. Any way to put Apple in a headline will attract clicks / readers.

Nobody cares if Onstar detects a crash and contacts emergency services.
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Because this was one of onstars core features? And not every vehicle has onstar. It’s the first phone to do this type of thing reliably. (And before you say Pixel had it first...I did use the word reliably)
 
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Incredibly tragic story. It’s too bad that they all passed on, but the silver lining (if there is one) is we all know now that the new crash detection feature does it job, even if it didn’t happen to get the help there in time. That, however, is due to the severity of the crash, whether they were wearing seatbelts, how the crash happened, etc, rather than due to the tech or the first responders. I’m just glad to know that if I am in a wreck and am unable to contact emergency services myself, my phone will do it.
 
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