“The maps shouldn’t have shown that the bridge was complete.”
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?
I’d probably also somewhat blame the person that drove off the bridge that clearly goes nowhere.
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.
Seems like blame can be applied at least three ways at once.
It’s from India, here either news reporters take bribe to not write it was authorities fault or can’t think straight and rational.
“Three men die in bizarre money-laundering incident.”
Judging by the pictures, that bridge was never going to connect to anything.
The article tells you it’s a repair of a wash out. So it absolutely does have a connection.
what if it was a paper map? would the mapping company be liable?
put the blame where it belongs; on the construction company who failed to block an unnavigable, dangerous piece of road.
Yeah I mean it would have been good if google maps could have prevented this but like the same thing could have happened to someone without a map
Yeah, I mean, someone has to provide the information. If one day, there’s a full bridge, and the next day it’s deconstructed for repairs, Google can’t magically know; some information needs to be pushed out to be parsed and updated. It wouldn’t surprise me if this was simply done by construction co. without proper filing etc. very few nations have the extreme regulations that U.S. has - it’s one of America’s redeeming qualities. Of course, that may not always be the case. But yknow.
I suppose it depends on the locale, but I’m my experience, the cities I’ve lived in update the gis maps and send change updates to Google very regularly, where they sit unimplemented for months.
Yeah I can see that being a problem too. Shrug.
I used to travel by paper map for like all of the 90s and 00s. I can reliably say, it was never the map’s fault.
A paper map doesn’t route by itself, differently from map apps such as Google Maps, HERE Maps and OpenStreetMaps.
It’s completely irrelevant. It’s not magic.
Blindly following directions without awareness of the situation around you is always your fault. A failure to block the road is the fault of whoever’s responsible for the road, but never the map.
- As soon as the bridge was deemed unsafe, it should have had barricades erected.
- Situational awareness supersedes maps, digital or not.
- Every GPS device, paper map and App out there would have had even chances to miss this.
- Driving in India is insane, even if the infrastructure wasn’t as bad as it is… and to be clear, it’s awful.
Situational awareness is key, but if all other indicators suggested everything was fine and you were driving up a bridge at night, there’s not much warning before the road is suddenly not there thanks to the curvature of the road. I’ve seen plenty of short clips of cars dropping into missing road segments due to whatever reasons, and it’s just not something you look for normally while driving nor is it that easy to see from a distance vs. an obstacle on the road. It’s possible they tried to stop and just couldn’t in time. The vehicle would be farther away if they had just flown off and not right below the base.
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.
I will not chuckle at the thought of this hypothetical meme
Truly the show’s biggest jumping of the shark.
Do they not put barricades in the road when it’s closed in India?
Infrastructure and Driving in India come with substantial risks to life.
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.
I had to check. I’m pretty sure it’s this bridge in OpenStreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/28.02674/79.48926 And there it is also not closed off for routing
google maps once tried to send me through a military base. Like, yes this would technically be faster if it wasn’t for the armed guards.
apple maps hasn’t tried to kill me … yet
This is an old story, hopefully they’ve done something about it
“Australian police call the application “potentially life threatening” after travelers are left stranded in scorching-hot temperatures”
https://theweek.com/articles/469634/4-nightmarescenarios-involving-apple-maps
…and that’s why you don’t use car navigation in airplane mode.
If it’s not in airplane mode, how do you expect the car to fly over the gap in the bridge?
Have you not seen Speed? You drive faster.
Had a lady in my store yesterday insisting that we had an item because google said so
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.
reminds me of the movie “idiocracy” when Joe looks out of the window at the hospital.
“THE MACHINE KNOWS!”
Take control of your mapping and learn to use your brain
#openstreetmap
Darwin would like to have a word with the driver
