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[–] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope. As much as I hate Google. You’re in charge of the car. You can’t blame an app for not paying attention to your surroundings.

[–] MooseLad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can't blame a company in the GPS industry for directing people to drive over a collapsed bridge while they ignore multiple warnings that the bridge is out in the first place? It happened a decade ago, Google should have fixed it a decade ago.

Also it can be hard to see the surface of the road at a distance at night. By the time he saw the bridge was out, it was probably too late. There's no lights around the bridge at all.

I'm not saying all of the blame is on Google though, that road should be blocked off/barricaded. However, all of this would've been avoided if Google Maps told him to take a right turn instead of a left. All they had to do was listen to the locals telling them that it's impossible to cross the bridge for a decade. It's negligence pure and simple and if it hadn't happened to him, it would be someone else.