Watch counts steps and floors during driving

One stretch of my commute is a freeway constructed from concrete panels. Driving across the expansion joints that separate the panels produces the rhythmic motion that the watch interprets as walking. It's where I pick up hundreds of steps every day, along with the occasional floor or two climbed or descended due to elevation changes in the area and an elevated freeway transition.

Please re-read my post before commenting.

I said the Apple watch was **MOSTLY** immune to these issues. At no point was I implying that it didnt have **any** issues. You're creating a straw man here.

It's not a matter of totally eliminating the problem, but perhaps reducing it.

I had a chance to side by side compare them on a road trip. My wife has the second to latest Apple Watch model. We were both in the back seat - neither of us was driving. In this scenario, Apple miscounted far fewer steps than my Garmin did.

Please re-read my post before commenting.

I said the Apple watch was **MOSTLY** immune to these issues. At no point was I implying that it didnt have **any** issues. You're creating a straw man here.

It's not a matter of totally eliminating the problem, but perhaps reducing it.

I had a chance to side by side compare them on an extended, non-stop road trip of several hours duration. My wife has the second to latest Apple Watch model. We were both in the back seat - neither of us was driving. In this scenario, Apple miscounted far fewer steps than my Garmin Phenix 7x Sapphire did.

Seems like a pretty simple solution.

If my watch knows that 1 step equals 2.7' (thats what I programmed in), and I am racking up 6 steps or more per second to ignore the count, unless it is turned on to track an activity.

I tested my AW against my Forerunner 265 on a 1 hour journey. The AW didn’t register 1 step and the Forerunner added over 500. I was a passenger the entire journey and did my best to resist movement.