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99blkgst t1_it2h8iu wrote

Reply to comment by camaro19ss in Not my best moment, but I can confirm the crash detection on iPhone 14 Pro works as intended by FTorrez81

Our local emergency services use RapidSOS which will give a live GPS location of a device that calls 911 (if it is a newer phone with GPS capabilities). It’s pretty cool to watch it work and will show movement live on a map. Really helps narrow down an area from a large radius given by triangulated cell towers to “it’s showing near the northwest corner of the building”.

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camaro19ss t1_it2iefr wrote

Yeah I figured there was better systems out there by now. Last time I was in a 911 center was 2001 in a rural county south of DC area. They had just upgraded their system and to a joint communications center for the sheriffs, county fire-rescue, town PD, and town fire-rescue.

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99blkgst t1_it2kgb4 wrote

Im sure there’s even better out there. Our area is slow to acquire newer tech than other areas. I think they’ve had RapidSOS for only a few years.

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DougK76 t1_it7qb0z wrote

I knew someone at a 911 dispatch center in Georgia. They had someone calling about an intruder in their house, they’re hiding in a closet, etc, and gave the address. But! They had recently upgraded to e911 services, and they were able to see that the person was 5 miles from the address, in a different house, and asked them about that. They hung up after that. It was a college town, and they frequently got fake calls. It’s accurate enough that the dispatcher could see the person pacing in their actual location.

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