Siri pulled a false alarm at the gym, caused 15 armed police officers to show up
9to5mac.com
9to5mac.com
> Truly an unfortunate – but not tragic – series of events. Fortunately, no one was harmed during Siri’s false alarm. Examples of Apple Watch acting as a lifesaver are much more common: [links to examples]
I'm not sure exactly what is meant here, but I believe false alarms are _much_ more common than legitimate calls.
So many interesting/unforeseen ways cool features like this can go sideways. I wonder how Apple/others train these sorts of features for the real world.
The arrogance of thinking you can think of all corner cases is the root of this silliness. Pro tip, you can’t think of all the corner cases so don’t try and never assume that you’re incapable of a false alarm. If you design like that you’d give users the choice to opt in and you’re very clear about the parameters.
> What’s unique here is the trainer was shouting 1-1-2 while instructing the workout. That’s common enough for a gym chant anywhere. Like 911 in the Unites States, however, 112 happens to be a way of dialing emergency services in Australia.
People have found all sorts of ways to accidentally dial numbers before. Normally you don't blame the phone and talk about it as if it acted of its own volition. I guess that barrier of "volition" is starting to breakdown in people's minds. We expect the phone to identify our own operator error and correct it, then blame the phone for its actions in being operated.
Random noise and keywords should never be enough to send a full dynamic team...at best its suicide and you don't have any picture of what's really going on. Totally inexcusable ops tempo.
This is a school, you could have called any number of lines to confirm an issue. You have CCTV, you have datapoints. That no one was shot and killed is a miracle in my opinion.
In Australia the police generally don’t just show up and shoot people.