Seems like a strange place to lay the blame. A trainer repeatedly dialed 112 through Siri. The 112 operator heard the word "shot" in the background and called in emergency services.
People have found all sorts of ways to accidentally dial numbers before. Normally you don't blame the phone and talk about it as if it acted of its own volition. I guess that barrier of "volition" is starting to breakdown in people's minds. We expect the phone to identify our own operator error and correct it, then blame the phone for its actions in being operated.
Doesn't Sire have a magic word to activate it like "okgoogle"? If I go to the supermarket and some product cost $112, is Siri going to call 112 for me?
Unless they fixed it, it even calls it from numbers that aren't emergency services in your area (an old "prank" told people to ask Siri about the number 108).
I was a soldier in the Iraq war. What's not being discussed is the utter failure of Australian police.
Random noise and keywords should never be enough to send a full dynamic team...at best its suicide and you don't have any picture of what's really going on. Totally inexcusable ops tempo.
This is a school, you could have called any number of lines to confirm an issue. You have CCTV, you have datapoints. That no one was shot and killed is a miracle in my opinion.
Their rate of doing so is currently 3x lower than the USA per capita, and rising quickly primarily because of shit like what happened in the article. It's better there, but it's still a problem.
had a similar "feature" on my pixel. Tapped the Power button 5 times in a row thinking it was volume, it called 911 and setoff an audible alarm. I hung up immediately, later received a call back from 911, and disabled the feature. I dont remember ever seeing that feature before
Recently I was trying to take a picture of my sleeping cat. I used the double tap power button shortcut to open the camera as I normally do, but it didn't show up for some reason so I did the shortcut again. The phone started a loud siren and showed a countdown to calling 911. I was able to stop it before the call went out, but suffice to say capturing the peaceful moment was no longer possible.
> Truly an unfortunate – but not tragic – series of events. Fortunately, no one was harmed during Siri’s false alarm. Examples of Apple Watch acting as a lifesaver are much more common: [links to examples]
I'm not sure exactly what is meant here, but I believe false alarms are _much_ more common than legitimate calls.
I recently saw a post from a local police force warning snowmobilers to keep watch on their watches/phones while riding. I guess they received something like 12 false calls the prior day due to fall detection triggering while the person was riding.
So many interesting/unforeseen ways cool features like this can go sideways. I wonder how Apple/others train these sorts of features for the real world.
It was not a fat finger. The watch’s automatic listening (AI) misinterpreted his voice:
> What’s unique here is the trainer was shouting 1-1-2 while instructing the workout. That’s common enough for a gym chant anywhere. Like 911 in the Unites States, however, 112 happens to be a way of dialing emergency services in Australia.
Ski towns in Colorado are facing a deluge of false alarms from apple Devices thinking people are injured due to skiing falls.
Emergency services should start sending Apple false alarm fines.
The arrogance of thinking you can think of all corner cases is the root of this silliness. Pro tip, you can’t think of all the corner cases so don’t try and never assume that you’re incapable of a false alarm. If you design like that you’d give users the choice to opt in and you’re very clear about the parameters.
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[ 1.3 ms ] story [ 51.7 ms ] threadPeople have found all sorts of ways to accidentally dial numbers before. Normally you don't blame the phone and talk about it as if it acted of its own volition. I guess that barrier of "volition" is starting to breakdown in people's minds. We expect the phone to identify our own operator error and correct it, then blame the phone for its actions in being operated.
Random noise and keywords should never be enough to send a full dynamic team...at best its suicide and you don't have any picture of what's really going on. Totally inexcusable ops tempo.
This is a school, you could have called any number of lines to confirm an issue. You have CCTV, you have datapoints. That no one was shot and killed is a miracle in my opinion.
In Australia the police generally don’t just show up and shoot people.
> Truly an unfortunate – but not tragic – series of events. Fortunately, no one was harmed during Siri’s false alarm. Examples of Apple Watch acting as a lifesaver are much more common: [links to examples]
I'm not sure exactly what is meant here, but I believe false alarms are _much_ more common than legitimate calls.
So many interesting/unforeseen ways cool features like this can go sideways. I wonder how Apple/others train these sorts of features for the real world.
> What’s unique here is the trainer was shouting 1-1-2 while instructing the workout. That’s common enough for a gym chant anywhere. Like 911 in the Unites States, however, 112 happens to be a way of dialing emergency services in Australia.
The arrogance of thinking you can think of all corner cases is the root of this silliness. Pro tip, you can’t think of all the corner cases so don’t try and never assume that you’re incapable of a false alarm. If you design like that you’d give users the choice to opt in and you’re very clear about the parameters.