Whether it was free or not doesn’t really matter. I don’t agree with Google at fault because the bridge should have been blocked physically if it collapsed years ago. The law suit is against a bunch of property companies so it sounds like they added google just because.
Comment on Google sued for negligence after man drove off collapsed bridge while following map directions
Yewb@kbin.social 9 months ago
Man uses "free" service and has no common sense, dies as result.
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SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 9 months ago
imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee 9 months ago
So we should all assume free services put us at risk of grossly negligent loss of life? It wasn’t just Google, the damn thing wasn’t even marked. Did you read the article? It doesn’t sound like this had much to do with a lack of common sense. There is a closed road by me that I have reported three times to Google maps over the past four years and it remains marked as open on maps - it is frustrating to have a reporting feature available and have these requests ignored / univestegated.