[dahfizz]

It goes beyond inconvenience, IMO.

First, there are the direct costs. If false auto-calls are clogging up 911 resources, then the taxpayers need to pay for more operators and infrastructure. This money could be used to "save lives" elsewhere.

Then there are second order effects such as lowering the signal/noise ratio of 911 calls. If operators get used to ignoring the automated calls, then the feature becomes a pure cost on society with little/no benefit.