Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  TBH people who do this deserve whatever consequences that get. Not the passengers necessarily, but the drivers absolutely do.

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Three men die in bizarre money-laundering incident.”

  Judging by the pictures, that bridge was never going to connect to anything.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The article tells you it’s a repair of a wash out. So it absolutely does have a connection.

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• kusivittula@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “THE MACHINE KNOWS!”

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• joostjakob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I had to check. I’m pretty sure it’s this bridge in OpenStreetMap www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/28.02674/79.48926 And there it is also not closed off for routing

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• Opisek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I fail to see how that’s Google Maps’ fault. This is the city’s fault for not blocking the bridge. Would people have complained if a paper map didn’t update all the collapsed bridges daily?

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  • lost_voyager@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s from India, here either news reporters take bribe to not write it was authorities fault or can’t think straight and rational.

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  • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d probably also somewhat blame the person that drove off the bridge that clearly goes nowhere.

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    • markstos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Looks like it might have been dark and foggy. The government failed to block the extremely dangerous situation— a standard practice when a bridge is put in other places.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Seems like blame can be applied at least three ways at once.

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• Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  …and that’s why you don’t use car navigation in airplane mode.

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If it’s not in airplane mode, how do you expect the car to fly over the gap in the bridge?

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    • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Have you not seen Speed? You drive faster.

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• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Given that there is death involved, this is “sensitive”… So I will not post a gif of Michael and Dwight driving into the river because the GPS told them to.

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  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Truly the show’s biggest jumping of the shark.

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  • Xenny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I will not chuckle at the thought of this hypothetical meme

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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A more accurate title is “Three men die when road crews fail to barricade a broken bridge”.

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• Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What excuse do they have for ignoring traffic signs and literally every other indication that the road is closed?

  A GPS doesn’t absolve you from personal responsibility. Use your eyes.

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  • Atomic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They were driving in the night. Visibility was poor. The road wasn’t closed off. Just to name a few.

    You’re probably imagining reflective signs, barricades, lights, led warning signs, etc. I know i would expect all of those.

    But this is India. And we’re talking about a company that didn’t even block the road. There is a very good chance there were no indications visible in the night.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Take control of your mapping and learn to use your brain

  #openstreetmap

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• Mandy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Darwin would like to have a word with the driver

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• ohellidk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  reminds me of the movie “idiocracy” when Joe looks out of the window at the hospital.

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• DrSleepless@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Had a lady in my store yesterday insisting that we had an item because google said so

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  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Man, I went to like 3 different Targets to find an item because the company that made the item said those Targets carried it. None of them did.

    Of course, nothing is better than a store saying they carry an item when they in fact do not. That happens pretty frequently when I’m looking for something specific. Not out of stock mind you, but they will never have stock.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Those people are fun the first and second time. After that you start getting a certain attitude towards them.

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    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      After working retail for more than a decade… Those people deserve it. The type of person to argue with an employee about whether they carry something or not solely because Google said so, are the quintessential Karen. They deserve every bit of unhelpfulness right back at them for the misery they sow everywhere they go.

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  1. As soon as the bridge was deemed unsafe, it should have had barricades erected.
  2. Situational awareness supersedes maps, digital or not.
  3. Every GPS device, paper map and App out there would have had even chances to miss this.
  4. Driving in India is insane, even if the infrastructure wasn’t as bad as it is… and to be clear, it’s awful.

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• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do they not put barricades in the road when it’s closed in India?

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  • IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nope. Public safety just isn’t a thing in India. At least it wasn’t twenty years ago when I went there. People die, everyone goes about their day, and nothing changes.

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Infrastructure and Driving in India come with substantial risks to life.

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• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sure glad they circled it, I didn’t know which end was unfinished.

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  • AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    lol but I am pretty sure what’s circled is the downed vehicle.

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    • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bridges and cars are easy to confuse. Hence the red circle

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