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!
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poll: car crash detection
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poll: car crash detection
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Re: poll: car crash detection
I can't partake in this poll because there is no option for 'I cannot install this technology on my phone'.
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Re: poll: car crash detection
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
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Re: poll: car crash detection
My phone didn't detect the crash, so no emergency services were summoned...
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Re: poll: car crash detection
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
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Re: poll: car crash detection
Ken, I'll do anything within my power to make you happy, as long as you can get permission from Hans and Leif.
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Re: poll: car crash detection
OK, to make you happy, I've voted now.
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Re: poll: car crash detection
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...]
[Thinks: surely that's what causes the airbags to inflate...]
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Re: poll: car crash detection
Some modern cars do warn emergency services if they detect a collision/crash. But many don't, and certainly not older cars.
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Re: poll: car crash detection
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
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