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Location tracking app with crash detection


johnwoodman78

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I'm looking for an android app where my wife can check on my position while out riding alone. There are a few of these around.

 

The additional thing would be crash detection with notifications sent to emergency contacts. I've found a couple on Google play, does anyone else use an app they can recommend?

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we use an old iphone with a shared apple id. and then find my phone works well. 

 

Does not have the crash detection...

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anyone who has had a discovery insurance tracker in their car will kno whwy crash detection is not really viable, especially on a mtb...

google maps also can share location very well for any android phone.

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LOL WUT, didn't know such a thing existed... 

Me neither, until my teenager showed me  :huh:

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I use garmin live tracker on all my rides, no crash detection but wife can see when i stop and exactly where i am including HR and speed

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If you have one of the newer Garmins, such as the 520, you can share a live track with your wife of every ride so she can monitor where you are at all times.

 

Furthermore, it also has the incident detect function which works really well!

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If you have one of the newer Garmins, such as the 520, you can share a live track with your wife of every ride so she can monitor where you are at all times.

 

Furthermore, it also has the incident detect function which works really well!

+1 to this.

 

I found the incident detection to be pretty good. I've only managed to trigger it twice, once with an OTB in a rock garden and the second time when I lost the front wheel landing a jump (both were pretty severe crashes, fallen off a many times without triggering it). Even when it gets triggered, you have 60 seconds to stop it before it actually alerts your emergency contacts.

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