A Utah woman is suing the search engine Google, claiming its maps function gave her walking directions that led her onto a major highway, where she was struck by a car.
The lawsuit seeks more than $100,000 in damages.
Lauren Rosenberg sought directions between two addresses in Utah about 3 kilometres apart. The top result suggested that Rosenberg follow a busy rural highway for several hundred metres. The highway does not have sidewalks. One stretch is blocked by a noise barrier that pushes pedestrians closer to the roadside.
After walking on to the highway, Rosenberg was struck by a car. The driver, Patrick Harwood, is also named in the suit.
Google has pointed out that the directions Rosenberg sought come with a warning of caution for pedestrians. Rosenberg claims that she accessed the Maps function on her Blackberry mobile device, where it did not include the warning.
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If Google Maps directed her to walk off a cliff, would she do it?
Only in America... Idiotic woman!
This time it was Canada I think...
In the past for directions from the US to europe google maps encouraged the people to swim across the pond... I wonder if that is still the case...
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
Utah is the US state with a huge population of Mormons :!:
Oops - my bad.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.