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h.dasmith said:

At 30mph (13.4m/s) the current GPS error should be such that it’s more accurate than a car’s speedo which is affected by simple things like tyre pressure and is normally set too low to protect the manufacturer with various country laws whereby a speedometer cannot read high, only low.

Yes, at running speed, you’re not travelling fast enough so you’ll get errors, but there’s a reason that when doing speed tests, they use GPS systems. 

Best would be to have both, with GPS calibrating your built-in sensors as some luxury cars have introduced. Doing speed tests in a controlled environment certainly won't reflect real-world miles with well-known limits with GPS-based calculations due to vehicular, geographic, weather, or any other kind of cover.

I probably shouldn't have used the running watch example because that has to do with smoothing, rate of samples, and other factors in the calculations. My point there was that the factors and the challenges are evident at any speed. Google says "Important: Speedometers shown in the Google Maps app are for informational use only. Make sure to use your vehicles's speedometer to confirm your actual driving speed."

I get that it's an obvious feature to add since they can do it, it might be helpful for a full HUD, etc. but I'm going to immediately hide that. I think the use cases for calculating this by bouncing signals off satellites are pretty slim and they're not going to be instant such as any measurements based on the wheels in the car. Right now I run with a GPS watch and it drives me crazy when the instant speed read constantly (every few seconds) recalculates and the speed jumps all over the place if if satellites are obscured by buildings or even trees. It shows as too slow if it can't reach a satellite then compensates and suddenly gets way too fast when it reconnects and discovers I'm further down the course than expected. This just seems like an unnecessary and potentially very risky distraction.

Xed said:

miiwtwo said:

bored design, even better the ultra 

Bored design? What do you mean by that?

I believe that it means they're sharing a personal opinion and have nothing to contribute to a conversation.

omasou said:

Why bother posting about this, directing more people to click on it. It only encourage more of this type of garbage YouTube content.

Yeah, I kept looking for the news/insight in this. With a billion iPhones in pockets worldwide, they are clearly being subject to accidents and abuse in every way. I come to AppleInsider for news and insider info, but maybe they're rebranding to include chuckles and snark.

Absolutely bonkers if true but it does flesh out the intentions more about Apple Intelligence. Apple wants to maintain the relationship with their customers and willing to make their customers available to third parties on Apple’s terms only.