Family of man who drove off collapsed bridge sues Google Maps for 'misguiding him to death'
Family of man who drove off collapsed bridge sues Google Maps for 'misguiding him to death'
The family of a man who drove off a collapsed bridge are suing Google for 'failing to update its navigation system'.
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From now, i will ask google for every decision I make in my life that way I can sue them if they fuck up.
I hate these billionaire companies, but this aint it.
I live in the PNW and needed to go somewhere past a large mountain in winter. I.E. what roads were plowed and which weren't mattered. I used google maps, and downloaded the route, cause no cell signal on the mountain.
I started off and it was fine. Used the appropriate highways and such. There is a transition between major highways I'd never used before that I wanted help with, but that was the only bit I was unfamiliar with.
Google ended up trying to get me to take a forest service road that starts off looking good. At this point I know not to listen to it, cause I did know this area and knew that that road, regardless of what it looked like at the entrance, was not safe.
I got out and walked about 100 feet and around a corner, and suddenly it's 4 feet of snow. It all looked safe at the start. Remember, there is no cell signal and I could easily see getting stuck there and not being able to get help. It looked safe and google was telling me to do it. It feels easy to say, "hurr durr, the driver was stupid." but that just sounds to me like "hurr durr, that woman with third degree burns should have known McDonalds coffee was as hot as plasma."
"hurr durr, the driver was stupid." but that just sounds to me like "hurr durr, that woman with third degree burns should have known McDonalds coffee was as hot as plasma."
It doesn't sound like that to me.
One is McDonald's directly gave her a something that caused the damage.
The other is a guy decided to use maps and didn't paid attention to where he was going.
"McDonalds was repeatly told that this was a problem" - Google was repeatedly told this bridge was out and to update the maps for OVER A DECADE
"McDonalds gave her something that was that caused the damage" - Google gave this guy the service of maps, with the implication that the maps were up to date, and the speed limit it says the road has is safe.
"If she didn't spill the coffee she wouldn't have been burned" - If it hadn't rained a metric fuck-ton, and been at the dead of night, or the bridge had been properly signed, he wouldn't have crashed.
You not being able to see the parallels is because you're intentionally working to not see them. Or, you're a paid shill. Or, you work for a tech company and Upton Sinclairs quote “it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” applies to you.
More "personal responsibility doesn't exist, sue corporations cause I'm a dumbass" rhetoric.
Google maps is free, it has no SLA or accuracy requirements because you didn't pay for it. If you'd paid then you'd have a case.