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The fall detection feature on the Apple Watch ahs already helped saved numerous lives and now Google has also taken the imitative in the same manner but they have applied the thinking to cars. According to tech media, Google is working on the app named Personal Safety which will work for car crash detection.
This app is going to make use of the various sensors which include the accelerometer and the microphone of the mobile in the Pixel smartphones to detect any accident. If a car crash occurs, it is immediately going to sound the alarm in loud volume and if there is no response from the owner of the phone, it will call 911 automatically and also provide the local emergency services with the location of the phone in the U.S.
Some tech media groups were able to capture the listing of the Play Store by Google, which the posted prematurely and includes several of the screenshots of this Personal Safety app. Based on information from these images, people will not have one opportunity after the phone detects the accident and confirm if the owner is OK or not before placing an emergency call., the app is going to make the confirmation of the accident twice before using the response of calling 911.
How does the app works:-
The big question is how does this app work? According to Google, the Personal Safety will be using the location of the Pixel smartphone, its motion sensors and the ambient radio from the phone’s microphone to figure on its own if an accident has occurred or not. Still, Gouge has said that activities with high Impact will also activate the detection of a car crash. So yes, there are going to be occasions when the phone will ask if the user is OK or not and they have to tap on the option saying “I am OK” to put a stop to the false trigger of the emergency call.
After the Personal Safety app confirms a user that they are OK, the app will next ask the user what happened. After that users of the app can also choose between options like no crash or the minor crash which will help improve the accuracy of the app for future crash detections.
Where will it be available:-
According to the listings of the Personal Safety app, it is revealed that the car crash functionality will only be available in the U.S.A. this app might be the newest feature for the new Pixel phone before it even gets to be rolled out on the older models of Pixel phones.
While there is a chance that there are going to some mix-up and false 911 calls made by the app, this car crash detection app is still a great step in the positive direction which is going to save numerous lives who remain incapacitated after suffering a major car crash. In the U.S.A. alone, nearly 40000 died because of car crashes last year and this app is surely going to reduce these numbers by a great margin.
In addition to the assistance for road accidents, the Personal Safety app will also have the feature of instant messaging the emergency services if a person finds themselves in a harmful situation and require urgent help.
More about this feature will be revealed by Google on Google’s Pixel 4 event which is going to be held on October 15th, 2019.
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