The Automatic Collision Notification App Is Here!
Car safety has come a long way since the seatbelt. The technology going into the airbag is staggering, and in the fierce competition to create the safest, most cutting-edge car technology, the winner has been us, the consumers. Safety features react faster to a collision than you can, and innovations in car safety are still happening. Some higher-end cars now include automatic collision notification (or automatic crash notification, depending on who you ask), which detects a crash and automatically calls emergency response for you. But even as consumers are beginning to find out about this technology, the next step in automobile safety has already been taken: putting this technology in a smartphone app called My911.
This may seem like it’s asking a bit much of your phone, but that’s the fun of cutting-edge technology. If you’ve seen a teenager on the bus, tilting his phone back and forth, you’ve seen the accelerometer that comes in smartphones in action. This technology also helps track your movement if you have a navigation system, and now My911 has patented a way for it to detect crash level G-forces and automatically get the emergency response ball rolling so that help can arrive as soon as possible.
Once your phone has sensed the crash, GPS technology allows it to explain where you are more precisely and quickly than we humans can, even if you’re on your own street and fully conscious. The real peace of mind that this brings, though, is in the case of a severe crash when all in the car might be knocked unconscious. This eliminates some of the “what if” scenarios and makes the process more efficient whether the worst happens or not.
But what if your phone’s mistaken? When a crash is detected, you have the opportunity to cancel the call manually. In addition, your call alerts an operator who attempts to contact you before calling 911 to report your crash. The procedure is simple and brings peace of mind to a new level in a world where car crashes kill and injure so many on a daily basis. It is easy to see how this patent can change the way that emergency response works, making life saving more immediate, secure, and efficient when it matters most. As the versatility of phones increases, peace of mind is certainly one of the positive consequences.
Not familiar with how automatic collision notification has changed car safety yet? Find out why My911 is the next big thing at www.my-911.com
