Emergency Location

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Vince

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After a few issues over the years communicating my location to Emergency Services. You might know what road your on but how many ks from x can be a big problem. I have tried finding my Lat and Long on my Tom Tom app and cannot get anywhere doing that. I was talking to a mate in the Bush Fire Brigade the other day and I asked him about this and he uses Emergency Plus App. I tried but my phone won't get it. There is another App I just tried called What3words. It apparently uses Satellites to locate you and will text that data. I will give it a test next time I am in a remote area.
 
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Interesting app, great idea and obviously works 99% of the time. As I’m riding through various parts of NZ I often wonder how I’d direct someone to me if I broke down. Although from the following article you might still need to brush up on your phonetic alphabet, especially if you’ve got a different accent to the person on the phone:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56901363
 
It's an in built facility on my airbag vest.

Paul
Andy said:
Interesting app, great idea and obviously works 99% of the time. As I’m riding through various parts of NZ I often wonder how I’d direct someone to me if I broke down. Although from the following article you might still need to brush up on your phonetic alphabet, especially if you’ve got a different accent to the person on the phone:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56901363
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Don't go abroad. It's full of foreigners.

Paul
 
I can see that this app would be very useful for CLNSW rides where everyone who hasn't already crashed or blown their bike up takes a different turning at every rural intersection. :D

That video where the NSW ambulance service couldn't find the ADV riders who were giving them lat/long numbers was unbelievable. Hopefully the publicity that generated has led to a resolution but I don't hold my breath.
 
I thought most mobile phones these days have an inbuilt emergency function that is dead simple to activate. Here in Norway the air ambulance app immediately gives your location when you activate it. Even my Garmin cycle computer detects a crash and it plings my phone asking if I want it to alert emergency services with my position. These rely on phone coverage. Out the back of woop woop you rely on friends or satellites.
 
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Even my Garmin cycle computer detects a crash
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How does it detect a crash? With a motorcycle, I imagine it could do that if it senses the bike has stopped and is lying on its side.
But that's not an unusual configuration for a push bike. You wouldn't want the emergency alarm going off every time you stop for a piss.
 
No idea Cam, but some nerd has obviously sold Garmin an algorithm. A lady crashed on a group cycle with us and her phone immediately asked her if she wanted it to automatically contact emergency services.
My bloody car sent a warning to my phone that it was being tampered with when I was changing to winter wheels last autumn, with the high tech keys on the seat of the car. There is no escape.
 
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There is no escape.
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Yes there is. Don't buy fancy new-fangled stuff with bells and whistles. :)

I live in about as low-tech world as is practicable these days. My car is 27 years old and has no technical smarts in it. About the cleverest bit of circuitry is a little PC board to control the electric windows. It doesn't even have electronically coded key entry (the keys can be reproduced by a locksmith for $5). I've installed an aftermarket alarm and immobiliser for added security. So far nothing has gone wrong with the vehicle that I haven't been able to fix myself.

None of my bikes are later than 1985, except one. The one exception to my old vehicle fleet is the 2008 Benelli Tre-K 1130, but it's not too clever. No GPS, ABS, anti-wheelie or traction control. All of that is done by me. Not as quickly or cleverly as a computer, but I've managed to not get lost and keep the bike upright so far.

I've had thoughts of doing a track day on it, but it's got too much grunt for my "old fart" reactions. It's got about 150 RWHP (it's been tweaked up from the standard 125 or so) so the chances of having the rear wheel spin up when accelerating out of a corner are pretty good, and I doubt I'd have the reaction speed to rein it back in. Even if I did manage to catch it, it would probably be too much reaction too late and I'd high-side the bloody thing. So, despite urgings from my mates, I've chickened out of track days. The red mist is bound to get me into trouble.
 
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