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The car crash detection feature seems triggered by rollercoasters. Image: AppleThis was quite the read over the weekend: the Wall Street Journal reported that the car crash detection feature built into the new iPhone 14/14 Pro and Apple Watches is sensitive enough to be set off by a roller coaster.It happened to a family at Kings Island, an amusement park in Ohio. After only two days on the job, the iPhone 14 Pro dispatched emergency services when the device sensed Sara White, the person profiled in the WSJ piece,…

Apple iPhone 14 calls 911 after confusing roller coaster ride with a crash. Here is all you need to know. Apple's crash detection feature on iPhone 14 or Apple Watch is supposed to detect severe car crash and save the life of the users by helping them connect to emergency services. But now, the crash detection feature is reacting to roller coaster rides too, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Sara White, a 39 year old lady was on a roller coaster ride when her family when her iPhone 14 Pro detected the…

Highlights Apple Crash Detection feature is so sensitive, it’s getting triggered by roller coastersAn amusement park has put up a board warning guests from carrying their iPhone 14 or Apple WatchSeparately, some Google Pixel 6, 6a users are complaining about 911 calls not happening at allApple iPhone 14’s new crash detection feature is getting triggered by roller coasters, making calls to 911 in non-emergencies. According to multiple reports, a couple of amusement parks have reported cases of Apple’s…

One of the iPhone 14 and Apple Watch Series 8‘s newest features is the new Crash Detection function, which can detect whether the user had been in “a severe car crash.” While it has been reported that this feature had not worked when a person was hit by another car while parked, a report by The Wall Street Journal shows that some iPhone users had this feature activated while on a roller coaster. The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern reports that the iPhone 14 Crash Detection feature was triggered by at least…

As many of you will be aware, the new iPhone 14 handsets and Apple Watches come with a great new feature that no one wants to ever have to use. It’s called Crash Detection and automatically alerts first responders if your device detects that you’ve been in a traffic accident. It does this using a new dual-core accelerometer, which can sense a sudden and extreme change in speed that suggests an accident has occurred. But it appears that some less dangerous things are also activating Crash Detection. Like roller…

On a sunny September Sunday, Sara White and her family headed to Kings Island amusement park outside Cincinnati. The 39-year-old dentist zipped her two-day-old iPhone 14 Pro securely in her fanny pack, buckled into the Mystic Timbers roller coaster and enjoyed getting hoisted 109 feet in the air and whipped around at over 50 mph. Afterward, she looked down at her phone. The lock screen was lined with missed calls and voice mails from an emergency dispatcher asking if she was OK. During the ride,…

Rock, Rock, Rockin’ Rollergames… It’s time to get your skates on, quite literally, (well, digitally), as the retro fun fans over at Hamster have added Nichibutsu‘s whirling derby dervish Roller Jammer to PS4 and Nintendo Switch — the latest addition to its record-breaking Arcade Archives range. Release to arcades way back in 1984, Roller Jammer is a very loose take on the world’s most complicated sport: Roller Derby. Instead of being packed out with screaming, tattoed gals sporting cool names like “Anna Geddon”,…

After rumours circulated that Ubisoft’s free-to-play sports game Roller Champions was getting cancelled, the game’s official social media channels have put that to bed. Initial reports of the game’s cancellation may come as a surprise to some, as the title only released in May of this year. The game’s Twitter account denied these claims yesterday (July 25), saying “let’s clear it out of the way first, Roller Champions isn’t getting cancelled, and Ubisoft fully supports it.” That said, some changes are coming to Roller…

It’s been a couple of months since Roller Champions skated onto consoles following a three-year delay, and players are worried the game might shut down after rumors circulated that Ubisoft would do so at the end of Season 3. Now, the French game publisher has spoken up and said it’s still rolling on. Rumors of the free-to-play roller derby game’s cancellation started after Giant Bomb journalist Jeff Grubb appeared on the Xbox Era podcast on Saturday and read a message from an unknown source off his phone saying that…

Have the wheels fallen off? According to rumors circulating the information superhighway, Ubisoft’s futuristic multiplayer release Roller Champions is already getting set to hit the bricks, mere months after its arrival. The free-to-play title, which launched in beta in summer 2021, only received its official launch in May of this year. The rumor comes from industry pundit and noted spoiler Jeff Grubb on the XboxEra podcast. Speaking for one of his many sources, Grubb suggests that Ubisoft is getting set to pull the plug…