> Mercedes calling their call center seems a bit aggressive
through necessary: I mean, let's be honest under which "normal" conditions do you ignore the warning system _and continue to do so even after the car stopped_?
Whatever it is if you are not a journalist testing something out there is a pretty high chance you need help one way or another.
So they call you to then figure out if they need to call you an ambulance (e.g. imagine you had a heart attack, or passed out due to some circulatory mall function) or a technician (the warning system malfunctioned) or well if they can safely ignore it (you are a journalist trying things out).
It's in a certain way just a natural extension of the existing emergency call system (common (required?) in the EU) where on detection a collisions/the airbag going off an emergency call is made. It just now detect a user seemingly becoming unable to interact with the system.
It might feel aggressive but it shouldn't trigger under in any normal usage situation and even if there might be some harmless situations it likely will save lives.
Now that diabetes has become a widespread problem for millions, having a dead man switch for a case of hypoglycaemia with a Big Bro phone call to check on you can save lives, I guess, by letting the subjects quickly reach the emergency room, where we are now
Once seated I thought I ought to see exactly how "fine" I really was, rolled up the leg of my heavy black jeans and discovered I was now bleeding significantly. I thought about it, decided if I tell the train operator they're going to insist I go to hospital to have somebody check it, at hospital triage will (like me) conclude that I'm not in real danger and put me at the back of the queue and I won't get seen for hours, so likely I don't get a train until tomorrow, meanwhile I'm in the wrong city. So, no, I'm going to stick a Kleenex over this wound to keep it clean(ish) and stay on the train.
It wasn't mortal, but it was a sizeable hole, a day later it was still bleeding so my mother drove me to an Urgent Care and a nurse practitioner glued it shut. Kind of wasting their skills, but it feels better to have someone overqualified do it than guess I can just use glue at home & never know if that was a good call.
Asking out of interest, because I don't know much about medical glues, and I often just use a little dab of superglue on cracked skin and haven't experienced any burns from it (I have, however, experienced a superglue burn while crafting - for anyone who doesn't know: don't use cotton to wipe off excess superglue, it will rapidly polymerise and heat up, and it'll stick to your skin while it's doing it)
Calls are also sometimes available when data is not/just plain faster
Would you prefer "have you been involved in a loss of life incident?"
My point is to not take the question at face value, rather take it as a compliance tool. Most people will answer it automatically because either hell yea they were, or they weren't.
Take a deep breath and let's start again.
If I ask you "did you kill somebody?" are you more or less likely to answer with something other than "fuck you" than if I ask "how is your package?". I get it, it depends on set and setting. Good thing they have so much beyond telemetry (extending into humint) in that alleged "car", eh?
How does it handle steering/skidding? Is it gonna cause the person behind me rear end me? I hope I never have to find out, but it'd be nice to know ahead of time...