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Google allegedly gave drivers bridge route for years despite correction requests.

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[–] fear@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Man people are judgy as hell. I like to think that I'd notice and stop too, but at 11pm, tired in the middle of nowhere with no street lights? How many of us know 100% that we would have stopped in time? It's understandable how this happened.

After an entire decade of directing people to drive off a goddamn bridge, Google should apologize to the family and settle. It's shameful. Get a better update team if you're going to provide a mapping service.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago (11 children)

It doesn't matter. It should be literally impossible for a map to have any liability under any circumstances.

If the bridge wasn't labeled and blocked properly, all the liability is on the people responsible for it.

[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

There is a section of road in my town that I'm guessing was suppose to have a bridge over the local river, but it never happened. The road leads right up to the river bank. In the 30 years I've lived here, there has always been a road block and warning. When a flood wiped out the warning and road block in 2015, they put a new one up. This is 100% the fault of whatever governmental entity is supposed to take care of stuff like that. Whether he was using Google Maps or a Rand-McNally road map is irrelevant because the first line of defense for having kept this from happening is on the local government.

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