SYSTEMS that broadcast an alert when a car has crashed risk swamping emergency services with trivial calls about scraped fenders.
Such systems need to get much smarter, says Daniel Talmor, a doctor at the intensive care unit of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Otherwise paramedics will waste a lot of their time attending minor crunches, denying help to those in genuine need. It should be possible for a car’s computer to give a much clearer idea of how serious a crash is, Talmor says.
At issue are the automatic crash notification systems (ACNSs) being installed in some…
