[earless1]

The watch deactivates most features and locks as soon as you take it off of your wrist. You'd need to re-enter your password to unlock it. so it is unlikely that throwing it would trigger the feature.

Also from their initial demo, the fall detection uses more input than just a fast falling motion. Apparently humans fall in a specific way that the watch detects

[dwighttk]

Hopefully it is better at detecting hard falls than my series2 was at detecting the beginning of a swimming workout... I'd be driving down the road at 30 mph brushing my hair and my apple watch would ask me if I was starting a swimming workout. And I had to turn the knob to unlock to tell it no because it automatically locks you down when a swimming workout starts.

[kyralis]

Honest question: Why are you driving down the road at 30mph brushing your hair?

[isostatic]

> had to

How about instead of brushing your hair and playing with your watch you concentrated on driving?

[dwighttk]

you seem to be assuming I was steering the car

[isostatic]

I was assuming you were driving the car, as that’s what you said.

I inferred you were on a public road. If you weren’t then I apologise.