[Phsstpok]

When using the Yahoo Maps, MapQuest and Google Maps online services to plot directions from Grants Pass to Gold Beach, Yahoo and MapQuest both recommend taking the same, safer highway route, while Google suggests a shortcut through roads that become dangerous in winter.

I did this search on MapQuest and posted about it on 12/4 at 6:47 PM.  Contrary to this article it does you on either this road or another forest service road just like it, not a "safer highway route."  My post  and a few others along this line generated a couple replies because I asked the question as to whether or not MapQuest might have any liability if, in fact, the family had gotten these instructions from them.  Do you suppose MapQuest got word of this and changed their recommendation for this route to cover this up?

[TruthWillWin]

Do you suppose MapQuest got word of this and changed their recommendation for this route to cover this up?

I just did a search, Grants Pass (Zip 97526) to Gold Beach, and it still sent you the wrong way or the way the Kims attempted. Mapquest did have a disclaimer at the bottom of the directions.

[1rudeboy]

MapQuest cannot be faulted for fixing their recommendation in light of what happened. Moreover, "subsequent remedial measures" are inadmissible as evidence of liability. That's just the way it is in court.

[TruthWillWin]

http://www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp?go=1&do=nw&rmm=1&un=m&cl=EN&qq=hltF3hzNT9tNhURP0HLlhh9UYBmHRqyBceg4Gkon14D8uewLk7pjHQ%253d%253d&ct=NA&rsres=1&1y=US&1ffi=&1l=&1g=&1pl=&1v=&1n=&1pn=&1a=&1c=&1s=&1z=97526&2y=US&2ffi=&2l=&2g=&2pl=&2v=&2n=&2pn=&2a=&2c=Gold+beach&2s=or&2z=&r=f

This is a search I just did, still wrong....