Apple's Crash Detection feature this past weekend sent 71 notifications to a county's 911 dispatch center from four ski areas; not one was a real emergency.
) reported on Monday that at the Summit County 911 Center, dispatchers received an incredible 71 automated crash notifications just this past weekend from skiers who were carrying an iPhone or wearing one of the three newest Apple Watch models.
None of the 71 notifications could be simply disregarded. And if the device owner did not respond to a return call, a special operations deputy had to contact ski patrol to visit the location where the impact happened to make sure no one was seriously hurt. This was a time-consuming activity but had to be done.Trina Dummer, the interim director of the Summit County 911 Center, said,"We are not in the practice of disregarding calls,.
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