A popular YouTube channel has tested the iPhone 14’s crash detection feature by crashing an actual car with an iPhone 14 Pro strapped inside. Announced earlier this month at Apple’s Far Out event, the iPhone 14 lineup comes with several new features and upgrades over the iPhone 13 series, although most of them are reserved for the Pro and Pro Max models. Thankfully, Crash Detection is one of the few new features available across all four iPhone 14 models.
To detect crashes, Apple is using a slew of sensors in the iPhone 14, including a new dual-core accelerometer and gyroscope. The system can reportedly detect impacts up to 256G, which is a lot by any standard. Once the device detects a crash, it displays an alert and automatically initiates a call to emergency services after 20 seconds unless canceled. If the user is unresponsive, the device plays an audio message to inform the emergency services about the crash and sends them the crash site’s latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates with an approximate search radius. Alongside the iPhone lineup, the crash detection feature is also available on all the Apple Watch models launched this year.
YouTuber TechRax, which has more than 7.6 million subscribers on the platform, posted a six-minute-long video of a real-world experiment that tested the crash detection feature of the iPhone 14. The YouTuber used an iPhone 14 Pro for the test that involved crashing a car multiple times to see if the feature works as advertised. The device was strapped to the back of the driver’s headrest at the time of the crash.
