The Crash Detection on the latest iPhone will call emergency services for you in case of a traffic accident.
You can now get your hands on Apple 's latest iPhone , the iPhone 14, which comes with a number of slightly better features than the previous iPhone. But there's one new feature that stands out: Crash Detection , and it might just save your life. If it works, that is.
Crash Detection is now available on iPhone 14 and the new Apple Watch. Here's how it works:
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The iPhone 14 includes new Crash Detection technology that Apple has also built into the new Apple Watch. The feature leverages the phone's gyroscope, sensors, and machine learning to detect if you've been in a car accident and automatically calls emergency services at your location, while also notifying emergency contacts.
To find out if the iPhone can actually detect crashes, the intrepid YouTube channel TechRax decided to crash a remote-controlled Mercury Grand Marquis into a pile of less-than-identifiable rusted and burned-out vehicles. The channel posted its findings to YouTube this week, and the results are in: If you tape an iPhone 14 to the headrest of a Mercury Grand Marquis and throw that car into things, the Crash Detection seems to work!
Is it science? Not really. The post says “The video was filmed in a safe and controlled environment”, but it appears to be just a field with other crashed vehicles in it. There are no rescue vehicles in case something goes wrong, and the car appears to go off track several times.
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But it's the kind of interesting and destructive iPhone 14 Crash Detection experiment that makes for a fun YouTube viewing. TechRax's remarkable 7.6 million subscribers have watched these guys drop an iPhone 13 Pro into a 150-foot waterfall and an iPhone 6s into lava.
Why? Why not! It may seem like a couple of boys having fun tearing things up in a field, but there is almost an absurd artistic value in placing these expensive objects that we have overestimated and which we rely on in such extreme scenarios.
Source: jalopnik.com
