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Google Maps.... oops. RIP

Private roads can be misleading. Out here it's really just referring to who maintains it, not who can control access to it, or even who built it in the first place. That road is paved with a bridge and a guard rail, fitting between just two private lots, which homeowners typically would not fund something like that just to save five minutes from having to drive around it. Odds are it was a county built and maintained road, then it was removed due to some cost cutting measure.
 
Kinda need to suffer some sort of personal loss/damage first. Hypothetical lawsuits don't usually get very far.
 
24 posts and no mention of the Duke boys and the "General Lee" Dodge Charger?
 
Google has a way for these things to be reported by those in charge, so unless this was reported and ignored, I suspect there's no money to get from them.
 
Not a Google fan per se. But on a foray into the unknown today, it’s maps app did alert me to a speed check on an empty multi lane hilly state highway that begged for 80 in a 55. Sure enough there they were, got someone else that time tho.
Edit: it also misdirected my rental car today to Penske not Avis(around the corner-would have needed to jump curbs and grass). So don’t trust them
 
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I went to the best fish and chips in town according to google reviews. The place was barely mediocre. They can’t be allowed to get away with that.
 
One of the few times u-turn would have been good.
 
HappyHighwayman said:
Google maps says to turn left on Van Ness where it's illegal....should I sue them?
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Google maps tried to take me through the closed area in front of the Irish Parliament building, I knew better than to follow that direction.
 
The article I read said the barriers had been removed due to "vandalism."

Seems ridiculous there aren't permanent barriers.
 
CDONA said:
Did the article define as to who removed the barriers?

It reads like a weak explanation.
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This is all it said.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-sued-man-drive-over-broken-bridge-died-2023-9

Jon Hopson, Paxson's friend, told local outlet the Hickory Daily Record that there were no nearby signs indicating that the bridge had collapsed. Barriers that normally blocked the route had been removed due to vandalism, the Charlotte Observer reported.
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So if the vandals didn’t remove the barriers, makes me wonder what they did to them. Graffiti, misdirection, destruction? Something permanent that way comes, I hope.
 
They were sawhorses.
Snagged as WFH desk with knocked in back door.


(Holiday Inn)
 
budman said:
Ran across this today.
Philip Paxson killed going over a collapsed bridge.

Since it was down since 2013 and GMaps informed several times his wife is suing.

Sort of shocked local authorities did not have any barriers up. :wtf

Wonder if one of there robot cars would have plunged too?
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Sounds like it is a privately owned bridge, so therein may lie the fault. I am sure Google Maps app probably has some kind of terms of use disclaimer that says they are not responsible for physical conditions on public or private roadways and drivers should always observe, be cautious, and adjust their driving to fit real life conditions accordingly.

I have a lot of concerns about these people I keep seeing more and more of that aren't even comfortable driving without a map application running.
 
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