A new report by The Wall Street Journal has revealed that 2022 iPhone and Apple Watches might be getting a safety feature, which was first introduced on Android systems back in 2019.
Car crash detection is that very tool, and is a feature that clocks the speed someone is travelling at using the device's internal accelerometer, and then determines whether someone has been in a collision by judging an unusual drop in speed. Following a collision, the device will ask the user if it should call emergency services, and if no response is given, it will automatically call a country's respective services.
It's a system that has been available in Android devices, particularly the Google Pixel 4 since 2019 in the US, UK, and Australia, and while Apple has yet to officially confirm or deny whether this report is true and that the feature will be arriving, it does seem like a plausible and necessary feature to be making its way to the next line up of gadgets.