A .005% failure rate is astonishing. The headline is not the story. The real story is that over 24,000 people were saved.

I work dispatch at a ski resort. I probably get 3-4 calls a day from our state dispatch — “Hi this is Vermont 911 agent 1234, we’ve received another crash detection from an iPhone with no answer.”

We’ve stopped sending patrol for crash detection. Half the time the coordinates they give us are way off. I’ll write down the callback number and log the call, but if someone’s actually hurt it’ll get called in.

So far, I’ve only had one crash detection call where someone was actually hurt, and the secondary line started ringing with someone calling in for the same person while I was still on the line with 911.

You can fit a DIY explosive device in a toy drone.

It’s super easy to make your own FPV drone without any engineering skills that won’t have an integrated No Fly Zone restriction.

Tbh I like that Samsung let's you call your friends/family instead of 911. Especially since the phones will record audio and take photos with both camera

Not sure that variable is that wild to me tbh! That’s precisely what liquor stores are like. Hell those enormous wine stores got fuckin half speed somoliers pushing adult wares down yer gullet.

At the same time regular ass grocery store attendants aren’t asking you how you’d like anything, to busy hating their fookin life

Okay, hear me out. Yesterday while on my journey to my school I had a pretty bad car accident. I recently bought a new Apple Watch SE. And after the car accident (fortunately the seat belts saved me) I was able to get out of the car. I noticed the watch ringing and indeed it was notifying me about the crash I just had. I canceled the SOS call though cuz I was able to do that myself. But yeah, I think this feature might be useful.

Colleague of mine years ago did this while he was on stage photographing USC's graduation. Someone kept calling him and he kept silencing the phone in his pocket since he couldn't look at it and didn't realize it called 911. Little awkward

You don't really need to develop your own drone. You just need to hack out the part of the software that checks.

My first instinct would be removing internet access and then doctoring/deleting whatever map it has onboard.

As someone that takes calls, we get a stupid amount of calls that someone called by accident or they'll call and immediately hang up

I think the point you are missing is that it‘s not just the call center.

If an ambulance or a fire brigade goes out, those are occupied until they found out it was a false call. And that is way worse, because they will not be at an other place where they would be needed, someone could die because of that.

99.44% of calls were legit. Hell, I wish my non-telemarketer incoming call rate was as high.

You still need ROM support, but yes.

Yeah the terror aspect for sure. They did they on a movie years back. Someone tried to assassinate the president with suicide drones. It was a tense action scene.

Holy moly you guys are out doing something almost every other day!! Do you go during the week + weekend?

Bruh

>There were 23,919 emergency calls received between December 16, 2022, and January 23, 2023, at the Fire Department of Kita-Alps Nagano, of which 134 were false.

so 99.44% success rate? sounds really good to me

did that once on accident on space mountain at disneyland years ago. pretty interesting

Even that is good, considering 800 people might not have been able to call else at all.

That makes more sense to me. I didn't even consider a drone being low speed or having a small payload, but by military standards it totally is.

The thought of a swarm of kamikaze drones really is terror inducing though.

It’s probably only illegal to make edibles at scale/for sale. No chance you will ever face any charges for making edibles in your own home, unless you’re being raided and they stack that onto other more substantial charges.

Mine called while I was just cruising down the mountain. I think it’s something weird with the vibrations caused by skiing

This has definitely been an issue for me. My phone has now called 911 twice in the last 8 times I’ve been skiing.

Mine triggers when braking quickly and really dumb feature. It should also listen to auditable sounds to verify it and give 60 second countdown when nobody answer the reject help callout

"Then, as ... hobbyist drones and consumer electronics improved, a second style of military drone appeared...And it caught the world’s attention in Ukraine in 2022, when it proved itself capable of holding back one of the most formidable militaries on the planet."

I'm not sure I buy that thesis.

You can't see Ukraine effectively holding back the Russian army and see in depth the mini failings of the Russian army and still claim there one of the most formidable militaries on the planet.

I think you have to realize that they are just not that formidable and so defeating them isn't necessarily the result of some game changer any more than saying the Talibans defeat of Afghani forces with some sort of game changer because rebels defeated the government army.