Absolutely every article I have seen on this topic has the emergency services people stress that the last thing they want is for people to be afraid of calling them. Because they already get cases where people "don't want to be a bother" and end up dead from a heart attack or permanently disabled from a stroke.
They most definitely do not want to eliminate false positives entirely.
> False calls are a nuisance and inappropriately waste resources.
But as I wrote: trying to eliminate them completely would be far worse. The only real waste are false calls that are done deliberately.
Now this case with the Apple devices is a very unusual one that really needs to have its specific circumstances taken into account. And those specific circumstances are that it does not, in general produce a lot of false positives. But for a specific activity it does, and unfortunately that activity is geographically concentrated so that those false positives are also concentrated. That should be addressed, but it absolutely does not mean the feature does more bad than good overall.
Absolutely every article I have seen on this topic has the emergency services people stress that the last thing they want is for people to be afraid of calling them. Because they already get cases where people "don't want to be a bother" and end up dead from a heart attack or permanently disabled from a stroke.
They most definitely do not want to eliminate false positives entirely.
> False calls are a nuisance and inappropriately waste resources.
But as I wrote: trying to eliminate them completely would be far worse. The only real waste are false calls that are done deliberately.
Now this case with the Apple devices is a very unusual one that really needs to have its specific circumstances taken into account. And those specific circumstances are that it does not, in general produce a lot of false positives. But for a specific activity it does, and unfortunately that activity is geographically concentrated so that those false positives are also concentrated. That should be addressed, but it absolutely does not mean the feature does more bad than good overall.