11/28/2023 0 Comments 112 operator vs 911 operator![]() None of those are solutions, and several of them are bad UX, likely to result in excess deaths.įor the first, you do not want to train drivers to ignore warnings from the car, since they are usually safety-critical. Posted 19:24 UTC (Wed) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) We recommend car drivers to let this feature be enabled to better assist if you happen to have an accident". ![]() The car manufacturer can easily use this in their market response as "Unfortunately, in this incident the rescue team got information too late since the user of the car had explicitly disabled the automatic accident reporting. In regards to "bad publicity" I don't buy that. Or if this feature is enabled (the previous owner enabled this), the car could see that the driving pattern is quite different (different hours during the day, different routes, speed, etc) and could then re-trigger the info screen about this feature.Įven today's cars with such tracking capabilities will sometimes ask you to approve new Privacy Policies or changes in some ToS. When the car is new or being factory reset, present a screen when the car is started (or after a couple of days) and ask about this setting. If this feature is disabled: Show a 5 second warning each time you start the car, with a possibility to get to the right settings screen. The idea is that if you crash the car, it'll tell the authorities where you crashed, if the airbags (or other safety systems) deployed, and set up a voice call between the driver and the authorities, so that appropriate emergency services (ambulance, fire) can get to you quicker than possible if we were dependent either on you being uninjured enough to make the call yourself, or on a passer-by noticing the wreck and calling for help, and also get to you fully prepared to get everyone out of the car. ![]() Note that there's a move, starting in the EU, to equip cars with accident emergency call systems like eCall, where if the car detects that you've been in a crash, and you don't tell it you're OK, it'll both send an SMS to the local equivalent of 911 carrying the sort of data specified in ITU-T Y.4467 (current location, 2 recent locations, each at least 5 seconds before the time of crash, and at least 5 seconds apart, direction of travel at time of crash, VIN, number of people detected in the car before crash, fuel type) and start a voice call to 911 using the in-car speakers and microphones. Posted 18:25 UTC (Wed) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
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