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I fully agree. I also hate Google and will look for any reason to hate on them more, however in this context they aren’t at fault. You’re the one driving and operating the machine. The app is literally “guidance”. It didn’t order him to drive over the bridge 🤣
Google has been told about the bridge being out multiple times and have refused to do anything about it. If you're so negligent that you keep routing people to a collapsed bridge on a private road, you deserve to be sued.
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.
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.