It happened to be again yesterday. I was riding on a residential street and came to a four way stop intersection. A car was approaching on the cross street and I braked harder than usual to stop and give them the right-of-way. I couldn't have been traveling at more than 10 -12 mph at the time. It was a normal routine event, not a "holy sh*t" moment. But my Instinct 2 thought I had an incident and stopped recording my ride and when into incident mode. I wasn't aware of it and two blocks later my phone sounded the alarm that my wife was contacted.
Seriously, it would be real easy to avoid false alarms by performing a simple 'sensor rationality' test. This is very common in robotics and the auto industry. E.g., I continued to pedal (cadence sensor) and travel at a moderate speed (speed sensor and GPS). My Instinct 2 should have been able to infer that no incident had taken place by looking at the data from the other sensors that indicated I was continuing my ride.
Yes, I get it, you don't want to miss an actual incident (True Positive) and overlook it (False Negative). But if your False Positives are so frequent that people disable the feature because they are annoyed by it (like the little boy who cried Wolf!) who benefits?
