This is just an anecdote. Smart tech is a net positive for your safety in general. There have probably been millions of times where auto location transmission has saved lives or prevented harm. Companies don't have to invest more resources in testing. They already have metrics to prove their product is as functional as it needs to be.

> I'm supposed to trust that a phone will do the main thing is built for, and place the call, and let me speak to the human on the other end.

We are not in 1990. Smart phones are only similar to phones in that they have "phone" in the name.