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It happened to me last week when I tossed my coat forgetting the phone was in the pocket. I was very confused when I came back 30s later and dispatch was on the speakerphone asking what the emergency was

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I don't really understand how false positives can be eliminated. Maybe it's still better overall.

> I don't really understand how false positives can be eliminated.

They can't, which basically means it's a poor feature and shouldn't have been implemented.

Seems like naïveté and myopia are endemic to tech companies, large and small. Smart people who are confident yet clueless.

Since a false positive generally causes much less harm than missing a true positive making no false positives a requirement is generally a terrible idea.

This really depends on how many of false calls happen. There is a point at which these start being detrimental.

As I mentioned in another post, Apple shouldn’t be farming out the determination to emergency services. They can provide an intermediary to determine the severity. The situation is such that a phone or watch does not have enough information to properly evaluate a situation as an emergency or not.

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