 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I guess from a phones perspective the two are very similar. One minute it's cruising along smoothly and then all of a sudden it's tumbling with high impact shocks and then stops moving.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Turned off!
Luckily it didn't trigger last week when I did an aerobatic sequence on Double M.
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I’ve left it on. It’s in my pocket, so I can check it if I crash but I’m ok. If I’m not ok, the call is acceptable.
There are a lot of road accidents and people skidding off roads into trees etc. I’ll accept the risk of leaving it on.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Similar happened to me in 2020 in St. Anton - When sitting back in the pub after a day out on the slopes I noticed loads of texts from my brother and mum... turns out I had been sending them lots of alerts from my watch as it thought I had taken a fall  ..... and ironically I hadn't even fallen over that day so it was just the motion of snowboarding that triggered it. I turned it off quick enough.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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Absolute ball-ache. People are already sufficiently paranoid if they don't hear from their "loved ones" every ten minutes without this. @Scarlet, what happens if you've had a crash on a ski slope, are unconscious, helpful passersby have called the ski patrol, who are in touch with the back up. What sort of extra hassle and work does the 911 call create? There are quite a lot of RTAs but not many when somebody skids unnoticed into a ditch and dies after three days in agony.
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Last Saturday the Bonner County Idaho sheriff’s office reported a 30% increase in 911 (emergency) calls due to skiers with these watches falling at nearby Schweitzer ski resort. Obviously an unsustainable situation.
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I’ve triggered the fall detection on my Garmin watch a couple of times running, when I’ve fallen over. It gives you 30-seconds to disable the alarm, before it texts location to names contact.
I must admit I like the security when I’m running alone.
I’d assume Apple has similar delay/check before making the call.
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@pam w, it’s localised, so it won’t be 911, or you’d have a point there. I don’t fall over on the piste very often, and it needs a certain force to trigger. I do ski off piste, often with just one buddy.
I don’t see it being a major problem, but if it is i can turn it off with a couple of clicks.
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Last Saturday the Bonner County Idaho sheriff’s office reported a 30% increase in 911 (emergency) calls due to skiers with these watches falling at nearby Schweitzer ski resort. Obviously an unsustainable situation.
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Our overstretched emergency services are completely incapable of dealing with genuine emergencies, without adding a whole lot of spoofs. I don't have a big problem with "Help" messages being sent to wives and girlfriends, if people are comforted by that, but I'd be seriously opposed to automatic calls to 911.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@Boris, It does have a delay. But can you get to your phone in 30 secs if you are in a pile of powder, take your gloves off etc etc? Not sure I would every time. Likewise, on piste, it’s likely to be a yard sale fall that would trigger it so your first focus maybe making sure you are safe and your scattered equipment is not a danger to others.
Collected data will tell. Perhaps the elves at Apple can develop this so trigger one is made by the crash but it does not call for help until a period of nil motion for 60 secs. Somewhere buried in my iPhone is some sort of motion censor that I have yet to explore.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@chocksaway, possibly not, but on my watch it’s one side button. Easy enough with gloves on.
Apple copying existing functionality but doing it slightly worse - again 
PS have an iPhone
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@Boris, Sorry, not considered the watch angle. That’s a step to far for me!
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You know it makes sense.
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so basically, a ski fall is as dangerous as a motor accident.
Not surprising. My other half had a bad whiplash injury when she wiped out once.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Felt to me like a solution looking for a problem. Disabled it immediately.
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