{"id":6307,"date":"2023-11-01T20:10:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T17:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/6307\/original_title-469\/"},"modified":"2023-11-01T20:10:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T17:10:54","slug":"original_title-469","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=6307","title":{"rendered":"Car crash detection on Pixel phones is now available in even more countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Car crash detection on Pixel phones is now available in even more countries\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Car crash detection has been a feature of the Google Pixel phone as part of the personal safety app since the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL.  This life-saving feature has been so popular that it has been adopted by other smartphone manufacturers and is now expanding to even more countries.<\/p>\n<div>When Car Crash Detection was first launched in 2019, it was only available in the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/united\/\"   title=\"United\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">United<\/a> States and only on Google&#8217;s latest smartphone at the time, which happened to be the Pixel 4 series. However, few Soon after, it started expanding to more countries around the world as well as other Android and iOS devices.<\/div>\n<div>Now, as reported <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MishaalRahman\/status\/1719373219340165508\">Michael Rahman<\/a> And <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2023\/10\/31\/google-pixel-car-crash-detection-new-countries\/\">9to5Google<\/a>, the feature expands even further by adding five more countries, bringing the list of supported countries to twenty.  This was spotted during a recent update of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/pixelphone\/answer\/7055029?hl=en#zippy=%2Cturn-on-car-crash-detection\">Google Support Page<\/a> on the use of emergency services.<\/div>\n<h2>More countries added<\/h2>\n<div>According to information found on Google&#8217;s support site, car crash detection works by using your device&#8217;s location, motion sensors, and nearby audio to detect when a possible serious accident has occurred. , when it then attempts to contact emergency services for you.  This is possible on Pixel 4a and later phones, including the Pixel Fold.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"gallery-0bbfdd8a-ef6f-4a80-92fc-1c11386c543e\" class=\"single-image-container  image-c\" style=\"width:800px;max-width:100%\">\n<div class=\"gallery-item\">\n<picture style=\"padding-top: 64.125%\"><source media=\"(max-width: 350px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 351px) and (max-width: 500px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 501px) and (max-width: 800px)\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Car-crash-detection-on-Pixel-phones-is-now-available-in.jpg\" alt=\"Accident detection settings on the Google Pixel Fold \u2013 Car accident detection on Pixel phones is now available in even more countries\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<p>Crash detection settings on the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/google\/\"   title=\"Google\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Google<\/a> Pixel Fold<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The following five new countries have been quietly added to the list of locations supported by this feature: Austria, Belgium, India, Portugal, and Switzerland.  These now join the fifteen other existing countries which had already activated accident detection, such as:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>WE<\/li>\n<li>UNITED KINGDOM<\/li>\n<li>Australia<\/li>\n<li>Canada<\/li>\n<li>Denmark<\/li>\n<li>France<\/li>\n<li>Ireland<\/li>\n<li>Italy<\/li>\n<li>Japan<\/li>\n<li>Norway<\/li>\n<li>the Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>Singapore<\/li>\n<li>Spain<\/li>\n<li>Sweden<\/li>\n<li>Taiwan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>One thing that has been noticed by Pixel users is the lack of language support in some regions, such as India, where the most popular language is Hindi, a language not supported by the feature.  For iOS users this can also be a problem, because even the emergency SOS function via satellite is available. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT213426#:~:text=for%20the%20emergency.-,Emergency%20SOS%20via%20satellite%20availability,-You%20need%20an\">regional restrictions<\/a> outside the United States and Canada.  However, we hope this will be added in the future, as crash detection becomes more common on smartphones and saves many lives around the world.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Car crash detection on Pixel phones is now available in even more countries\u060c Car crash detection has been a feature of the Google Pixel phone as part of the personal safety app since the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL. This life-saving feature has been so popular that it has been adopted by other smartphone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,1567,1454,2955,424,71],"class_list":["post-6307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-car","tag-countries","tag-crash","tag-detection","tag-phones","tag-pixel"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6309,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions\/6309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}