Garmin Accident Detection

[Rudi Pollard]

Has anyone noticed recently that the Garmin Incident Detection has become really sensitive? In the last two weeks, it goes off once or twice every ride. It has never done that in the past and actually worked really well. Now I just want to turn it off...

 

Would be good to know if anyone else has noticed anything.

My 820 is still working perfectly. It has only ever gone off when I was in an actual accident. Ive never had false alarms.

[MudLark]

I have found that while I can use it fine on a MTB, on a road bike it triggers on a bad road surface. As a result its now disabled.

[Spoke101]

Has anyone noticed recently that the Garmin Incident Detection has become really sensitive? In the last two weeks, it goes off once or twice every ride. It has never done that in the past and actually worked really well. Now I just want to turn it off...

 

Would be good to know if anyone else has noticed anything.

 

Yes it has become more sensitive than before with the latest update. I only seem to set off false incidents when braking very hard to a complete stop. But I would rather have it a little on the sensitive side vs risk it not picking up when I hit the deck.

[The Ouzo]

I havent set mine up yet, but I do have LiveTrack setup, my wife loves tracking my rides.

 

whats also pretty cool about her tracking my ride, is now she times breakfast for when I'm back, no more eating cold breakfast on the weekends.

[DieselnDust]

i guess you have to have your phone with you and it uses bluetooth?

 

 

Phone has to be connected to Garmin via Garmin Connect App and the feature must be active.

 

Its very sensitive. You could be riding along, spot the woman of your dreams and instinctively brake. to initiate contact.

It will trigger this as an incident and send an emergency SMS to your wife

[Long Wheel Base]

Mine has gone off twice "unnecessarily" recently. Once I came to a stop fairly quickly( I was late for work and came into the security gate rather quick and braked as late as possible). The other time I knocked my handle bar while at a robot and it went off. Both times I just cancelled the alert so my wife didn't start to panic for no reason. 

[Long Wheel Base]

For those wondering, Once the garmin detects something it goes crazy and starts beeping like mad. It does this for about 20 seconds(I can't remember exactly how long). You have the choice to cancel the alert or just let it count down and send the sms. So it doesn't send the sms without informing you that it wants to.

[DieselnDust]

For those wondering, Once the garmin detects something it goes crazy and starts beeping like mad. It does this for about 20 seconds(I can't remember exactly how long). You have the choice to cancel the alert or just let it count down and send the sms. So it doesn't send the sms without informing you that it wants to.

Yeah but cancelling the alert seems to be challenging sometimes and I have found myself in "do I cut the red wire or the blue wire" situations

[Donovan Le Cok]

Thanks, guys for the input. Good to know that it is not just me. I am going to disable it.

[GmtbR]

Just “tested” this function on my Edge 520 this evening. Wandered a little wide coming down Majik and had a little closer inspection of the trail conditions. Garmin did the Alerting thing as appropriate.

 

No false alarms though on any other rides so far.

 

Agree on the higher grade question, double negative question to cancel the cancellation of the cancelled emergency call or whatever...maybe a good check for head trauma?! [emoji849]

[MudLark]

I have found that while I can use it fine on a MTB, on a road bike it triggers on a bad road surface. As a result its now disabled.

 

For what it is worth, I have re-enabled mine and generally find it fairly stable – there is an occasional false alarm trigger but it doesn't happen so often that it's a problem. I think road bike tyre pressure may come into the equation as well – not sure.