Fortunately, I never set of a false alarm while sitting in the bar… (Skiing is just too much like exercise for an old retired guy.)
911 dispatchers say skiers are accidentally setting off Apple’s new crash-detection technology without realizing, triggering emergency calls
Brittney Nguyen reports:
Emergency dispatchers in a county in Utah told a local news outlet that they’re seeing a rise in accidental 911 calls from skiers who have new Apple products with its crash-detection technology.
Suzie Butterfield, a Summit County Dispatch Center supervisor, told KSL.com that dispatchers have been getting phone calls alerting them to “a severe crash or they’ve been involved in a car accident.”
Apple’s crash-detection technology sends users a message with an alarm sound if it detects a crash. The message can be dismissed, but if it’s not within 20 seconds, the technology sends an automated message to the closest emergency call center with the caller’s GPS coordinates and their number to call back.
Read more at Business Insider.
Undue reliance? Using technology in ways never intended.
https://news.yahoo.com/colorado-grandmother-sues-police-detective-054334297.html
Colorado grandmother sues police detective following SWAT raid based on false 'Find my iPhone' ping
An elderly Colorado woman is suing a Denver police detective who ordered a SWAT raid on her house after it was falsely pinged by Apple's "Find my" app as the location of several stolen items — including six firearms and an old iPhone — according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
This might work on the east coast, but probably not in most of the US.
https://thenextweb.com/news/europe-take-note-france-bans-short-haul-flights
Europe, take note: France bans short-haul flights
France has been given the green light to ban short-haul domestic flights. Specifically, between locations where there is a train alternative that takes less than 2.5 hours.
… Unlike many parts of the world, Europe already has thousands of kilometers of dedicated high-speed railway, with the leading countries in this regard including France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, and the UK.
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Too many laws?
https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-12-05
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