That’s understandable, especially at faster speeds. It’s all speculation for me because I haven’t taken that route myself or seen the space where the bridge used to be. While Google should absolutely strive to make its map data continually accurate, it still doesn’t seem right that they’d be held accountable for it. But I suppose I’d feel differently about a self-driving car using that data.
Google failed to update their map for nearly a decade after a bridge’s collapse, even after it became a noted hazard referred to as the “Bridge to Nowhere.”
The bridge collapsed in 2013, but Google was directing traffic over it nine years later despite local residents “repeatedly contacting Google” to report the error over the years.
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Thank you. I read the full linked article before commenting. Everything is just a long form way of saying that I disagree that Google is fully accountable in this situation.
Ok. So they just get to ignore dangerous innacurracies as long as they want, no matter how many times it’s been pointed out?
Maybe they can add an avatar in Waze for this:
I mean, if nothing else, Google knows they are either in the wrong or liable, since as soon as the lawsuit was served they made the correction.
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Dark, rainy, slick road, middle of the woods, unfamiliar area, certainly the first thing you’d expect with no barriers, signage, etc., is the road to be missing. Way to victim-blame, though.
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they don’t have to be fully responsible to be held accountable for their part in it. that responsibility includes changes in policy and monetary damage to make sure they follow through
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Fair point. There’s enough “do better” (and then some) to go around, and I agree that Google isn’t exempt from that.
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The road wasn’t edited in OpenStreetMaps until after this person died last year, so it’s likely that and Apple Maps who use OSM would have routed people over the road as well.
Edit: I just checked the source Census TIGER road data and unfortunately, this road shows up as going through. 
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If I was using a map created just for my trip by AAA, commonly called a triptik, and it directed me over closed roads in a way that lead to me dying? I sure as shit hope my family would sue. The thing about internet maps using satellite data is that they are supposed to accurate at the time you are using them. Given that they can route you around accidents and bad traffic, expecting them to have removed a route that takes you over a missing bridge isn’t too much to ask.
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When it is dark and slick drivers keep the responsibility to handle their vehicles. The unfamiliar area was less than five miles from their house and there is foliage directly growing across what would otherwise be the path of the roadway. Other people may share responsibility, but the person operating a car keeps some share, particularly in a single driver crash.
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It’s a little early for Halloween, isn’t it?
This particular driver certainly paid more than his share of the price.
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I see what you could have done there. 
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