Getting hit by another car is one of the last things you want to happen to you on the road. Unfortunately, this is something that happens all too often. If you are involved in a car accident, it is important that the emergency services and your loved ones are informed of your situation as soon as possible. However, in more serious accidents, you may not be physically able to call for help. For this reason, many cars can automatically call the emergency services when they detect an accident. However, not every car is equipped with this function, so it would be more than useful if your phone could do the same Galaxy.
For context - every device with Androidem is equipped with a number of physical sensors such as an accelerometer and a gyroscope. These sensors provide data from which the operating system can Android and applications to read, enabling both simple functions such as automatic screen rotation to more complex functions such as earthquake alerts. The phone in question can infer when a car accident has occurred by analyzing sensor data from its motion sensors, GPS and microphone. The reason so few phones offer car crash detection is that analyzing that data is actually complex, potentially power-hungry if not done right, and requires care so as not to disrupt emergency services.
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Google Pixel phones from their fourth generation and iPhone 14 and later have this feature, but Samsung smartphones do not. However, that could possibly change soon, at least according to the site's findings Android Shelf. To solve the above issues, the feature on Pixel phones uses a low-power hardware sensor hub that continuously collects and analyzes sensor data. Only when a potential car accident is detected, the main processor of the phone wakes up with higher consumption applications to confirm the result and then trigger the accident notification. Google has tried in the past to push manufacturers androiddevices to use his implementation of the feature, but so far without success.
Now the website Android Police found that Samsung is working on the car crash detection feature, although it's unclear whether it's using Google's implementation or its own. The editor of the site described that some time ago he wanted his on the external display Galaxy From the Fold5, set Gboard as the default keyboard, but at the same time leave the Samsung Keyboard as the default on the internal screen. He used the Tasker app for this. When the app listed all the sensors available on the Z Fold5, an unknown sensor with a name also appeared in the list Car Crash Detect Wakeup. That, he said, was "shocking" because Samsung doesn't currently offer car crash detection on any of its smartphones.
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This sensor is also said to be available on the editor Galaxy S24 Ultra, but not on his S23 Ultra. As he then discovered, the sensor is actually a type of composite virtual sensor that processes and combines data from one or more underlying physical sensors. The sensor is said to be designed to immediately report a potential car accident to apps that read the sensor. The website contacted the Korean giant about its findings, but it has not yet responded. However, if it is indeed working on a car accident detection feature for its phones, we can hope that it arrives soon as it can potentially save a number of lives.
