Blackberry Reviews

When you get in a car accident, technology is your best friend. Your seatbelt secures you, your airbags deploy automatically, you call an ambulance or a tow truck on your cell phone, and so on. The protective role of technology just grew some more, as an automatic crash notification phone app called My911 can now eliminate a few more steps from the crash back to security. While your airbags are deploying, your phone will already be making the call that may save your life.

This may seem like it's asking a bit much of your phone, but that's the fun of cutting-edge technology. If you've seen a teenager on the bus, tilting his phone back and forth, you've seen the accelerometer that comes in smartphones in action. This technology also helps track your movement if you have a navigation system, and now My911 has patented a way for it to detect crash level G-forces and automatically get the emergency response ball rolling so that help can arrive as soon as possible.

Since your phone can now sense a car crash, the next logical step is for it to do what you would do anyway, only faster, more precisely, and automatically. Because smartphones also come equipped with GPS, they can not only sense the crash, but explain where you are and how to get there faster than any human, conscious or not.

But what if your phone is wrong? First, you can manually cancel the automatic collision notification. Then, even if the call does go through, the person who picks up is an operator who will attempt to talk to you before sending your location to the emergency response center. This concept didn't exist a few years ago, and now it can be the norm for us!