The intelligent assistant Siri helps iPhone users in multiple ways like to speak natural language voice commands in order to operate the mobile device and its apps. Siri also supports extended dictation, enabling users to have their words translated into text for use in e-mail and text messages, Facebook status updates, tweets, note-taking Web searching and similar operations.
While doing every single thing it is told, the feature has now saved the life of a teenager in Iowa, USA. An 18-year-old Gael Salcedo, who was driving a four-wheeler, had got off-road as soon as it hit an ice-covered slippery patch and went sliding into the icy Iowa river. Soon after, the teen asked Siri, the iPhone’s voice-activated assistant, to call 911.
The spontaneity in asking Siri has today saved the man’s life. It is reported by cops that a 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee is being operated by Gael Salcedo and he encountered a snow-covered patch of the roadway, causing him to lose control of the vehicle and crashed car into the river.
After calling 911, Salcedo was rescued by the Mason City Fire Department. Gael told media, “I turned to the right and from there, everything just went blurry. I didn’t know where I was going and then I just didn’t know what to do. I was just thinking in my head, ‘I think I’m going to die.'”
His brilliant idea of taking Siri’s assistance to call 911 has been highly lauded. He said, “I lost my phone and since I couldn’t find it, I was like, ‘Hey Siri, call 911’. And once Siri called, that’s when I found my phone finally.”
