{"id":84271,"date":"2022-10-02T00:40:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T00:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/apple-responds-to-why-junkyard-crash-tests-dont-always-trigger-iphones-crash-detection-2\/"},"modified":"2022-10-02T00:40:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T00:40:03","slug":"apple-responds-to-why-junkyard-crash-tests-dont-always-trigger-iphones-crash-detection-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/apple-responds-to-why-junkyard-crash-tests-dont-always-trigger-iphones-crash-detection-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple responds to why junkyard crash tests don&#8217;t always trigger iPhones&#8217; Crash Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"review-body\">\n<p>With the announcement of the iPhone 14 lineup, Apple announced that its new devices are outfitted with sensors and tech that can detect when a user has been in a car crash.  The iPhone will then prompt to dial emergency services and will automatically dial if the user doesn&#8217;t respond.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<span><strong>iPhone 14 Pro Max<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The Wall Street Journal<\/i>&#8216;s Joanna Stern collaborated with a demolition derby driver in Michigan to test whether they could make the new iPhone trigger the safety feature.<\/p>\n<p>An iPhone 14, a Google Pixel were placed in the derby car, and an Apple Watch Ultra was strapped to the driver&#8217;s wrist.  An iPhone 14 Pro Max and a Pixel 6 were placed in a stationary junk vehicle that was going to be crashed into.  The test involved driving a derby vehicle (driven by a professional derby driver) into the parked car and see which devices triggered Crash detection.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Does Apple\u2019s Crash Detection Work? We Totaled Some Cars to Find Out. | WSJ\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0nTQIvfVHrw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>After crashing the vehicles and seeing mixed results from iPhones and Pixels, <i>The Wall Street Journal<\/i> reached out to Apple for comment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"small-blockquote\"><p>When I contacted Apple with the results, a company spokesman said that the testing conditions in the junkyard didn&#8217;t provide enough signals to the iPhone to trigger the feature in the stopped cars. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For Crash Detection to work, it needs to first detect that the device is inside a moving vehicle. <i>WSJ<\/i> outlines that an algorithm takes several factors into account for the feature to work. <b>Motion sensors<\/b> detect sudden changes in motion, <b>microphones<\/b> can detect loud sounds such as the impact of the crash, the <b>barometer<\/b> can detect changes in air pressure when airbags are deployed, <b>GPS<\/b> readings can detect sudden accelerations in a moving vehicle (or detect that it is in a vehicle at all), and <b>CarPlay and Bluetooth<\/b> status can better signal whether the device is actually in a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"350\" height=\"758\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/22\/10\/apple-responds-to-iphone-crash-detection-tests\/inline\/-350\/gsmarena_001.jpg?resize=350%2C758&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Apple responds to why junkyard crash tests don't always trigger iPhones' Crash Detection\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Crash detection features in both Google and Apple are not able to detect all types of crashes.  There&#8217;s even a disclaimer right under the Crash Detection setting on new iPhones saying exactly that.  In all cases, however, the devices need to first be able to detect that it is in a moving vehicle, involving some or all the signals mentioned above.<\/p>\n<p>We hope nobody ever needs to use a crash detecting feature on their smartphones but features like these have the potential to save lives in the event of a crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\">Source<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the announcement of the iPhone 14 lineup, Apple announced that its new devices are outfitted with sensors and tech that can detect when a user has been in a car crash. The iPhone will then prompt to dial emergency services and will automatically dial if the user doesn&#8217;t respond. iPhone 14 Pro Max The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/apple-responds-to-why-junkyard-crash-tests-dont-always-trigger-iphones-crash-detection-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple responds to why junkyard crash tests don&#8217;t always trigger iPhones&#8217; Crash Detection<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":84616,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/after-shocking-iphone-14-junkyard-crash-tests-not-always-triggering-feature-apple-reacts\/","url_meta":{"origin":84271,"position":0},"title":"After shocking iPhone 14 junkyard crash tests not always triggering feature, Apple reacts","date":"October 2, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"iPhone 14 can detect when a user has been in a car crash and sends an SOS. 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