If Google told you to jump off a cliff, would you?
 

A Utah woman used Google Maps' walking directions on her Blackberry and was given directions to walk onto a highway. She got hit and is now suing Google for damages.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/05/...iff-would-you/

Didn't she also spill some McDonald's coffee on her lap?

Google has warnings for the pedestrian directions, but she was using her blackberry and didn't see the warning message :2 cents:

wow maybe shell win

ya :1orglaugh maybe it is her, they might also be related to the robber who sued the home owners after he got stuck in their house trying to rob them

who is that?

Hahaha, i love that part.
WG

Sadly, there was such case in California during the 60s. It changed premises liability law forever. It used to be that if you were an uninvited guest or intruder, the premises owner doesn't have a duty to you to keep the premises safe. Not anymore.

What a retard...for using a blackberry

Hilarious, James. That pic is funny enough it might become a 4chan meme. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

ok I won't ask for your "PIN"

The great American way... Sue someone for your stupidity to become rich

come on, she probably saw that as chance to try to shit out money from google, i would not be surprised

To answer your question:

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When Google draws directions through highway, I think it is implied that person is travelling by car.

To walk on a highway - a person has to make this reasonable choice himself / herself.

People must look for pedestrian sidewalks.

A few years back there was a couple in Southern Oregon that used Google maps to make it from the valley over to the coast in the middle of winter. The map gave them two options as far as routes go and they chose the shorter of the two. As they turned onto one of the routes they saw a sign that said the road might be closed due to excessive snow and to enter at your own risk. They didn't turn back when the snow got to 10 inches and ended up getting stuck in the snow. The entire family died. They found the wife and kids in the car and they found the guy about a mile or two from it trying to walk back and get help.

Had they turned around and taken the other route the roads were 100% plowed and it would have been an easy drive.

She should have gone to spec savers

What a fucking retard! She should be roadkill.

Not quite as bad, but I heard something similar about a woman here who was in a little hatchback, and blindly followed the directions on her GPS navigator, which routed her through isolated (and badly maintained) forest roads. She ran out of petrol or her car broke down (can't remember which) and due to the fact that she was effectively in the middle of nowhere, also out of mobile phone range, she wasn't found for about 4 days. She did survive.

My wife is a bit like that, she relies too much on her nav, and doesn't know how to read a good old map. I still catch her programming her nav for destinations she's been to 10-15 times already.

If you ask a Plaintiff's attorney, they would just say they are "protecting the consumer" and holding those 'evil' corporations accountable :helpme:1orglaugh

James Kim, the tech editor from CNET? If so, he died but his wife and daughters were rescued. I drove the road that I think they were on a while back but it was in the summer. Hell of a road even then. Runs from near Grants Pass to just north of Gold Beach.

Nope, I would say GFY to Google and I would use Bing instead of Google. :D

wow, just wow.

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Looks absolutely exactly like a certain club owner I know - a product of he Wild East in the early 90's

Well, I don't think there's anyone to blame in this case, it's the same as if you wanted to blame a meteorologist for a weather forecast, the nature doesn't care.

Also a story that illustrates, that the one that controls information and media can control basically any person in the world

Imagine you'd hack only one single super popular service such as say Google Maps - you could cause a total collapse within hours - the common sense is vanishing as people in general tend to rely more and more on different "gadgets"

Yeah that was the guy. I thought his wife and kids died, but I couldn't remember his name. Now that you mention it I looked him up, you are correct, they did survive, looks like the burned the tires on the car to stay warm.

retarded!!

It is nice to see Darwinism in action.

yes, everything for Google :) :)

I wouldn't, also I would believe my own eyes rather than googlemaps :)

Seems to be quite regularly something in the newspapers here along the lines of my GPS told me to turn right so I drove into a lake/off a cliff/followed a farm track for 7 miles and got stuck.

No sympathy from me.

Kinda similar :)

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Ok I'm logging off, this just made my day

Wouldn't to it for google but i'd jump with you baby!!!!!

JUMPING RIGHT NOW
cya

how high is the cliff?

every time I hear something like this it pisses me off. I wish we could go back to the days when people actually used their brains and took responsibility for their own actions...

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