YouTuber wrecks car to test iPhone 14 crash detection
It had to happen. A YouTube channel has filmed a full-size but remote-controlled car repeatedly being crashed in order to see if iPhone 14 crash detection works.

Even Apple's own video about how crash detection works didn't actually damage any cars. But now the YouTube channel TechRax as done exactly that.
"Time to test out the iPhone 14 Pro's new crash detection feature," says the video's billing. "Does it actually work?"
The makers stress that the video "was filmed in a safe and controlled environment." It doesn't detail how it was done, but a regular car was outfitted with a rig that let it be driven remotely, and the YouTubers rammed it into a series of junkyard vehicles.
It works. There's a curious delay before the iPhone reacts during the first successful crash, but then it's repeatedly a race to turn off the call to emergency services in time.
Last year the iPhone 13 range was exposed to drop tests in YouTube videos. At least this time the iPhone 14 Pro used, came away entirely unscathed. The same can't be said for the car used for the crashes, so iPhone 14 Pro users should probably not try this in their own vehicles.
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Even Apple's own video about how crash detection works didn't actually damage any cars. But now the YouTube channel TechRax as done exactly that.
"Time to test out the iPhone 14 Pro's new crash detection feature," says the video's billing. "Does it actually work?"
The makers stress that the video "was filmed in a safe and controlled environment." It doesn't detail how it was done, but a regular car was outfitted with a rig that let it be driven remotely, and the YouTubers rammed it into a series of junkyard vehicles.
It works. There's a curious delay before the iPhone reacts during the first successful crash, but then it's repeatedly a race to turn off the call to emergency services in time.
Last year the iPhone 13 range was exposed to drop tests in YouTube videos. At least this time the iPhone 14 Pro used, came away entirely unscathed. The same can't be said for the car used for the crashes, so iPhone 14 Pro users should probably not try this in their own vehicles.
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Comments
I’d have thought that 15-30 seconds would have been better, with negligible difference to someone unconscious.
Privileged much?
Because, apparently, nobody lives in the US, nobody in Europe drives a car older than 2018, and indeed nobody outside of Europe gets in crashes, and the satellite SOS will never be offered outside of the USA.
Like how easily the iPad bends because Apple didn't design any structural support into the frame? Or that the iPhone 14's rear glass is easily replaced if it breaks but the 14 Pro you may as well just replace the phone if you want to fix it? Or how Apple is still locking the serial numbers of individual components in software so that users can't easily replace them if they break (even with known working parts from another iPhone) despite posturing on how they are letting people self repair?
There's tremendous value in testing the claims of manufacturers rather than just taking them at their word.
Safety is not enforced by law. It is best served as consumer requirement and market competition. If you create laws then you create liability on technology that may not be reliable because of elements of environment that are not dependent on manufacturer or consumer. Can you still imagine that notifying emergency services may not work because transponder was damaged as result of accident? Think about it. It is good feature, but it should never be mandated the same as tracking speed of vehicle (I was personally in incident that I was saved when I accelerated suddenly above speed limit to avoid deadly crash and braking would guarantee that I would have been victim).
As an added bonus, ask yourself why he went to the trouble of using a utility knife to score the entire back of the iPad with the Spiderman head...