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Apparently it's cheaper to foist the job of waking passengers up on 911 than to hire an employee to do it. Good ol' privatize the gains / socialize the losses!
The relation of tech and emergency services is something I became acutely aware of, when my volunteer firefighter unit recently got 2 alarms in one week that turned out to be someone lost his IPhone driving through a curve. (Apparently they have a G-sensor/accident detector and can robocall emergency services.)
Okay, it's not that common. IPhones do that for years and those 2 were our only cases of that. Still sucks to get the news via radio, when you're already in full kit ready to roll.