| | ME TOO 911 Text Messaging Replying to snutz411 HAhaha! Amazing, I just experienced the same Aha-moment, I was about to begin researching the steps needed to copyright/patient an idea... My thunder has also been stolen. -reply by Andrew French |
| Nov 24, 2009 |
QUOTE(ganeshn11 @ May 3 2006, 09:42 AM)  Yeah nice though, good idea. But just think about it, when you want some help from 911 I dont think anyone here is going to text message them saying "Help, Help! I am in trouble." Like miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said may be setting a set of keys as emergency numbers is a good idea. But still I doubt if anyone will really gonna TEXT MESSAGE 911 for help. Anyway it was really nice thinking, you reall thought about from no where. Good work. I think it would come in handy though if you were physically unable to speak... Say perhaps that you were working on a farm alone and you snagged a piece of machinery the wrong way in the neck and you were unable to speak, but still able to function... If you could then text 911 with your location that would be helpful... And like someone else mentioned already, 911 texts could be recognized by the network and be given top priority!
An interesting though with some flaws however. Look at the other side of the equation. Part of a 911 operators job includes determining the actual issue if possible, keeping people calm, talking people through helping with whatever when possible. All tasks that aren't really plausible via texting.
911 gets many bogus and just plain dumb calls. For example one guy called 911 because his condom broke and he wanted a doctor. had he simply text 'need doctor' should the resources of an ambulance be sent? 911 also dispatches and officer to disconnected 911 calls. This results in more time wasted for the officers than it does chances to help. A panic button would be hit so frequently the authorities would spend far too much time chasing false alarms. I know enough officers to confirm this. QUOTE(Darasen @ Apr 21 2008, 09:28 AM) An interesting though with some flaws however. Look at the other side of the equation. Part of a 911 operators job includes determining the actual issue if possible, keeping people calm, talking people through helping with whatever when possible. All tasks that aren't really plausible via texting. 911 gets many bogus and just plain dumb calls. For example one guy called 911 because his condom broke and he wanted a doctor. had he simply text 'need doctor' should the resources of an ambulance be sent? 911 also dispatches and officer to disconnected 911 calls. This results in more time wasted for the officers than it does chances to help. A panic button would be hit so frequently the authorities would spend far too much time chasing false alarms. I know enough officers to confirm this. You know, that's probably true... But placing a phony 911 call is no laughing matter. And I think if they made the rules a little more strict when applying to text messaging, there may be fewer phony texts. But maybe I'm just putting too much faith in people, haha.
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Lol I like how this guy is like "wow, I'd rather risk my life than risk ten cents texting a service that is not provided to me free"...To each his own, I guess.
Ive had this same idea but some people say that people would do it as pranks, but I say that if they do it as a prank and the authorities find out(which they will) that the person(s) that did it get a massive fine.
-reply by chris
In Australia, it is not possible to send a text message to any of the emergency numbers (e.g. 000, 112, 106).
There is really no need to use SMS for emergency text message because it is more efficient and effective to use the voice as communication rather then text in an emergency situation.
For one thing, I highly doubt that in a dangerous situation anyone would have time to text out a full message, INCLUDING their location. As most phones are not fitted with GPS, it would take quite a lot of time for most people to type out all the needed information. However, for phones that are equipped with GPS I can see it being as a useful service, as if you are, say... hiding in your closet because someone is in your room, you wouldn't want to make the noise needed to talk to 911, and it could possibly save your life.
One main problem however, is that some people can "accidentally" dial 911 when their phones are in their pockets. Personally, I don't see how it could happen, but if it did it would waste a lot of police time.
The following book has sold a lot of copies on America: Dial 911 and Die. One reviewer says:
QUOTE Even with the well-trained, motivated and equipped police personnel we have in America, there are no guarantees they will not be overwhelmed, suffer technological breakdowns, be too remote to respond or otherwise be unable to come to the defense of an individual citizen's defense. ... After reading this volume -- and it is an easy read and very hard to put down -- one wonders what could possibly be the real agenda of politicians who would be so stupid as to disarm the honest, peaceable citizen. ... Those who think they are afforded blanket protection by 911 need to know it is at best a security blanket. At least in America, there have been a number of court cases that have declared the police have no duty to "save" someone who is in danger. Personally, I find of discussion of 911 alternatives less interesting than a discussion of 9 mm vs. 357 magnum. 
Some people prefer to let other people do the shooting for them, hehe.
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