The thing I found most surprising about this article was during the accident and subsequent setting in on shock, the authors heart rate didn't really increase by that much. I would have expected the heart rate to hit much higher numbers, the shock of being in an accident and the rush of adrenaline kicking in (causing the heart to beat faster). Glad to read that everyone was okay though. I am interested in knowing why the other car swerved in the first place? Was it an accident or were they distracted? The kind of metrics Apple Watch will never be able to tell us.
Interesting to think that first responders may someday be able to check a person's "black box" to be able to assess certain aspects of their condition.
Not a technically rich article, but interesting conceptually to think about the kinds of data that are going to be routinely captured, uploaded, processed, and aggregated.
Similar thing for me with my bike crash in 2012 - speed drops to zero, heart rate spikes, then drops whilst I sit around dazed.<p><a href="https://www.strava.com/activities/22929472/analysis/17804/18153" rel="nofollow">https://www.strava.com/activities/22929472/analysis/17804/18...</a>
It's a pity that the only way to get your own data out of the health app is via (to me, quite inaccessible) XML files.<p>Does anyone have a guide, or any guidance to working with them?
This is highly suspicious IMO. You almost died in a car crash with your family, yet two days later you wrote how glad you were that you can see a graph of your heart rate? Come on...<p>On the other hand, I could be wrong though, it's just my opinion.