iPhone 14 Pro's crash detection demonstrated in hair-raising video

Apple talks a superb sport, however tech specialists are usually skeptical concerning the firm’s newest {hardware} till they will check it out for themselves. Which is an issue if you happen to’re speaking a couple of function designed for literal automobile crashes.

Nonetheless, TechRax was undeterred by the apparent difficulties and arrange a check to see if the iPhone 14 Professional’s crash detection function was all it was cracked as much as be. The YouTube channel’s high-octane check, in a video posted on Wednesday, entails a remote-control automobile being pushed thrice right into a automobile wreck at excessive velocity, an iPhone 14 Professional, a GoPro recording all the information, and numerous operating round.

The primary check is a wash-out because the transferring automobile merely glances off the wreck and carries on. (The distant controls don’t seem to incorporate steering, brakes or every other skill to scale back velocity.) However this itself is effective data, suggesting that Apple’s engineers have completed an honest job of avoiding false positives. Primarily based on the GoPro footage the contact was gentle, however the cellphone’s accelerometer will need to have detected a certain quantity of deceleration and chosen to low cost it.

Subsequent testing manages to recreate extra substantial collisions, and in each instances the iPhone 14 Professional’s crash detection kicks in as anticipated, initially triggering a siren after which threatening to contact emergency providers if not deactivated manually. The testers accomplish that for apparent causes.

So all seems to be nicely with Apple’s doubtlessly life-saving new {hardware} function, which follows on the heels of the Apple Watch Sequence 4’s fall detection in 2019. Macworld’s reviewer for that product, by the way, threw himself to the ground a number of occasions to check the function, and was roundly mocked for this within the workplace. However actually dedicated reviewers know that no bodily hazard is an excessive amount of when searching for to supply correct shopping for recommendation.