Is the feature mandatory in any area? It’s basically fall detection rebranded as crash detection.
I honestly dont know, I am not an Apple support person. As we have learnt, its only a few steps from "this is useful" to "we have just mandated this because it is so useful and people are too stupid to realize how cool this is!" Trust me, in a few years, automated emergency calls will be mandatory, downvoting the messenger doesn't help either folks.
From the comments, it sounds like it’s becoming a common feature in android phones also.
There is not a single Android phone I'm aware of that has a feature like iPhone's "detected crash to automated 911", could you provide an example?
Someone mentioned their pixel 4a called 911 when it fell and hit the floor.
Fall Detection is an optional feature. There is nothing mandatory about it.
It still seems it was the wrong choice to enable it by default. I had this happen despite not knowing the feature exists.