iPhone 14 crash detection causing influx of calls to Warren County Dispatchers from Kings Island Coaster riders

[BoddaH1994]

 

[KIfan73]

Oh, wow, I never thought of that!  My new watch has it, too!

 

[Orion742]

1 hour ago, KIfan73 said:

Oh, wow, I never thought of that!  My new watch has it, too!

 

Is it possible to turn the crash detection off or turn the watch/iPhone on airplane mode while riding the ride?

Yep there is, on the watch and iPhone 14. So if someone has one of those basically you can just turn it off while you are in the park.

Edited October 9, 2022 by Orion742
I figured out the answer

[terry wass]

had a similar incident on orion. Got flagged on my car  insurance app for speeding while on Orion. Now i simply disable the location tracking before I get in the park. 

[DeltaFlyer]

My brother had this happen to him this weekend riding mystic. Pretty interesting. 

[disco2000]

Article about it for those that prefer more text than Twitter provides lol

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/apples-crash-detection-feature-iphone-203043205.html

[BoddaH1994]

What’s weird is that tech YouTubers have tested the feature with junk cars and have had trouble getting it to trigger. Apple responded saying that it uses the gyroscope, accelerometer, microphone, and altimeter (can detect air bag deployment) to determine if it is a legit crash or a false positive. Their tests wouldn’t pass as a crash but a rollercoatster ride does. I wonder if it had something to do with going 35 or so miles an hour and then abruptly stopping on the brake run. 

[CorkscrewMcPuke]

Must be that final brake run on FoF.

[BoddaH1994]

1 minute ago, CorkscrewMcPuke said:

Must be that final brake run on FoF.

That’s when you need a, “Well, you’re not wrong…” button. 

[PKIDelirium]

Just imagine if this co-existed with Son of Beast, they'd get dozens of calls per hour.

[CorkscrewMcPuke]

1 hour ago, PKIDelirium said:

Just imagine if this co-existed with Son of Beast, they'd get dozens of calls per hour.

At least a handful would be warranted.

[PKIDelirium]

25 minutes ago, CorkscrewMcPuke said:

At least a handful would be warranted.

Yeah, I mean, it sure felt like being in a car crash a lot of the time...

[Browntggrr]

Parks need to remove phones from rides. 

There is not a good reason to have a phone on any ride.  Parks could install phone stations, similar to SV at CP, in strategic areas around the park.  If a guest insists on bringing a phone in the park, have a $10 upcharge for unlimited access.

[robintodd]

On 10/9/2022 at 10:50 PM, BoddaH1994 said:

That’s when you need a, “Well, you’re not wrong…” button. 

As a programmer, my instant thought would be a geo-fence exclusion zone.  Major carriers could set up geo-fences around amusement parks, alpine slides, water parks (since waterproof watches also have the feature), etc. that would serve as a zone that would ignore the crash detection or give the user to automatically turn off the detection when inside the zone.  Expecting people to remember to turn it off isn't realistic when they can't even remember to secure it in a zipped pocket.  

 

3 hours ago, Browntggrr said:

Parks need to remove phones from rides. 

There is not a good reason to have a phone on any ride.  Parks could install phone stations, similar to SV at CP, in strategic areas around the park.  If a guest insists on bringing a phone in the park, have a $10 upcharge for unlimited access.

Here is the conundrum for the parks.  On one hand they want park goers to have phones so they can interact with them with deals, special messages, an alternative to a paper map, mobile ordering (once implemented), etc.

On the other they want them to not take them on certain rides.   There is an argument to be made that if the park is saving money and able to improve my experience and maybe even get park goers to spend more money with deals if they have their phone, then the least they could do is offer a no-cost option to store the electronics for those who ride.  

The way things are currently they are discouraging brining in an electronic device if you want to ride because it's going to cost extra.  How much is it worth to the park for them to have that device on them and is it worth installing a no-cost option for those people.

[disco2000]

48 minutes ago, Browntggrr said:

Parks need to remove phones from rides. 

There is not a good reason to have a phone on any ride.  Parks could install phone stations, similar to SV at CP, in strategic areas around the park.  If a guest insists on bringing a phone in the park, have a $10 upcharge for unlimited access.

New pass season-long add on LOL.  $10 for unlimited bring your phone in the park access.  $25 for Prestige holders because they like to pay more for the same thing 

[PKIDelirium]

On 10/14/2022 at 7:11 AM, Browntggrr said:

Parks need to remove phones from rides. 

There is not a good reason to have a phone on any ride.  Parks could install phone stations, similar to SV at CP, in strategic areas around the park.  If a guest insists on bringing a phone in the park, have a $10 upcharge for unlimited access.

That's a little drastic, especially with all the park app functions and cashless. Not to mention almost everyone is also using their phone as their camera now, and some also as their wallet.

If this becomes more of a problem as the new phones and watches with this function get into more people's hands, parks could always just make cheap signs for ride entrances reminding people to enable Airplane Mode while riding if they have that feature. Apple could also potentially start geofencing parks to disable crash detection while inside them.

On 10/14/2022 at 7:32 AM, robintodd said:

As a programmer, my instant thought would be a geo-fence exclusion zone.  Major carriers could set up geo-fences around amusement parks, alpine slides, water parks (since waterproof watches also have the feature), etc. that would serve as a zone that would ignore the crash detection or give the user to automatically turn off the detection when inside the zone.

Nah, carriers wouldn't need to do anything. iPhones and Apple Watches use Apple Maps, and everyone else uses Google Maps. Parks are already identified as landmarks on those services, so Apple and Google could probably very easily and quickly fence them off for crash detection.

[BoddaH1994]

50 minutes ago, PKIDelirium said:

That's a little drastic, especially with all the park app functions and cashless. Not to mention almost everyone is also using their phone as their camera now, and some also as their wallet.

If this becomes more of a problem as the new phones and watches with this function get into more people's hands, parks could always just make cheap signs for ride entrances reminding people to enable Airplane Mode while riding if they have that feature. Apple could also potentially start geofencing parks to disable crash detection while inside them.

Nah, carriers wouldn't need to do anything. iPhones and Apple Watches use Apple Maps, and everyone else uses Google Maps. Parks are already identified as landmarks on those services, so Apple and Google could probably very easily and quickly fence them off for crash detection.

I think he’s saying on the rides themselves. I wouldn’t be against that m, but what I’d ask is that you would tuck them away right before you ride (like on SV) rather than not being able to take it in line, like at Universal. 

[Browntggrr]

21 hours ago, PKIDelirium said:

That's a little drastic, especially with all the park app functions and cashless. Not to mention almost everyone is also using their phone as their camera now, and some also as their wallet.

Parks charging guests for using lock boxes throughout the park so phones are never on a ride may be drastic but for how many issues phones cause parks & other guests a good discussion could be had that it is not drastic at all.

If the amount of downtime parks endure which makes lines longer (and then also makes parks look bad because of the social media pics of a "ride has broken down again") combined with the injuries we know about, the SV way of removing all phones from being carried on rides may be coming down the pipeline to all rides/ parks.