Hello all,
I have set up Incident Detection a few months back with the goal of alerting my partner if I ever fall off my bike on my commute.
All was well until a couple of months ago when it fired off twice at the same place in 24 hours, unnecessarily alarming my partner in the process.
I haven’t thought about it until today, when it fired off once again, at the same place: a paved plaza in Paris (Denfert-Rochereau to be exact).
Does any one of you have had similar experiences? Do you know if there is a way to configure the feature’s sensitivity or report false-positives? I have yet to find any related settings other than on/off in the Garmin app or on the watch.
I have had it switched on on my watch for over 5 years at this point. I record activities pretty much everyday which over the years has been a combination of both running and cycling. In that time I have probably has around 5 false positives, 3 of which I have notices and cancelled before it has sent messages to my family.
I have had a couple of actual crashes in that time and it picked both of them up fine and sent messages as it should do, they were both on the bike. It has never detected any falls I have had whilst running however.
My false positives have never been in the same place, so I keep it on as the couple of times I have had crashes it has worked as intended and although I was fine and able to walk away from them if I hadn’t I believe it could be beneficial still.