Nobody likes to think about being involved in a car accident. However, it's reassuring to know that if you enable car crash detection on your Pixel phone, help could get to you much faster in the event of a collision. Using your phone’s built-in accelerometer, location data, and microphones, the app can notify emergency services immediately, providing critical data about the incident and your exact location.
When your phone detects an accident, it will vibrate and sound an alarm. If you don’t need assistance, you can respond that you’re OK. Otherwise, your phone will send an alert to your country’s emergency services through Android’s Emergency Location Service. It's safety features like this that help make Pixel devices some of the best phones around. (This is also a feature introduced on recent iPhones — here's how to enable crash detection on an iPhone if that's your preferred device.)
