poll: car crash detection

[ChrisGreaves]

How car crash detection works in an emergency — and which phones have the life-saving technologyAnd yes, I am aware that some of the pol questions conflict with each other. Be sensible. Be nice!
Thanks, Chris

[stuck]

I can't partake in this poll because there is no option for 'I cannot install this technology on my phone'.

Ken

[ChrisGreaves]

I can't partake in this poll because there is no option for 'I cannot install this technology on my phone'.

Now you can!
Cheers, Chris

[HansV]

Yabbut - I voted but now my vote has disappeared

[ChrisGreaves]

Yabbut - I voted but now my vote has disappeared

Well, don't blame me if the Poll system crashed.
Blame Ken!
I was curious to see if one could edit a Poll after it had been posted.
Of course Ken had not polled, so I knew that I could edit the poll (from 7 to 8 entries) after it had been posted.
However I had not noticed that someone (Blame Hans) had entered poll data.
So perhaps phpBB is lenient in allowing a poll to be edited, and far too lenient in not saving/restoring existing data?

I am sorry that my editing the poll caused your data to crash.
I hope that noone was seriously injured.

Cheers, Chris

[HansV]

My phone didn't detect the crash, so no emergency services were summoned...

[Leif]

My phone didn't detect the crash, so no emergency services were summoned...

[stuck]

...Be sensible. Be nice!

So you were nice, in editing the poll but that wasn't sensible
I've still not voted, daren't lest anything else goes wrong

[ChrisGreaves]

I've still not voted, daren't lest anything else goes wrong

Ken, I'll do anything within my power to make you happy, as long as you can get permission from Hans and Leif.
Cheers, Chris

[stuck]

OK, to make you happy, I've voted now.

Ken

[John Gray]

Wouldn't it be more sensible for the car itself to detect that it had been in a collision?
[Thinks: surely that's what causes the airbags to inflate...]

[HansV]

Some modern cars do warn emergency services if they detect a collision/crash. But many don't, and certainly not older cars.

[ChrisGreaves]

Wouldn't it be more sensible for the car itself to detect that it had been in a collision?

What Hans says.
Also, if I had the software on my phone, I might be rescued if my pal crashed while driving us to, or from, the beer store; or the taxi service to Clarenville.

However there must be a limit. If six of the forty passengers in a bus have the technology, presumably the various signals would focus attention on the site (six lines intersecting), but if all 2,400 smartphones on a train in India started at once, it might well overload the system?

Cheers, Chris