Posted on 06/01/2010 11:02:36 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Perhaps some of you might think of Rosenberg as just a perambulating chaser. Yet she and her lawyers reason that Google's walking directions were "careless, reckless, and negligent providing of unsafe directions."
Now this is the point at which your complex minds become engaged and my rather simpler version becomes divorced. You see, if you ask Google Maps for walking directions on your laptop you get a very clear warning--yes, on one of those lovely beigey-yellow backgrounds--that reads: "Walking Direction are in Beta. Use caution--This route may be missing sidewalks or pedestrian paths."
The question is, does this warning appear when you go to Google Maps on your BlackBerry? Or, even more importantly, on Rosenberg's BlackBerry? It does not appear to appear on the iPhone. Which might suggest the same situation holds with the RIM phone.
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Goggle has directed me to a number of wrong addresses. Hmm . . . maybe we could make this a class action.
Might as well pull a daily double and claim she got burns drinking hot Mickey D’s coffee before the collision...
Yeah, but at least she didn't spill any real hot coffee on her lap.
Next thing you know, we will have people suing GOOGLE because they were using STREET VIEW as they drove down the road.
“It’s not my fault officer. There clearly is no parked car in that location on Google Maps.”
I never trust directions from the internet. If you live in a multipolar metro area like Dallas/Fort Worth, the Bay area or the Twin Cities, you could end up lost. Also, since the mapmakers don’t live in the area, they can’t get a feel for an area. The best idea for a person if they’re trying to get walking directions is to try to know where you’re walking to before you walk. It also doesn’t hurt to get a satellite image of the street you want to walk on.
These are the same type of people who call 9/11 when the guy at the drive-thru window gives you the wrong sized fries.
Can’t read a paper road map? Then stay the hell away from behind the wheel of a vehicle.
Uhh....she was walking!
“Goggle has directed me to a number of wrong addresses. “
I don’t know how common it is, but on our street, virtually every house is mis-numbered on Google Maps. All the numbers are correctly accounted for, but each is attached to the wrong property.
Garmin directed me to my destination on left.
Only problem was on the Hudson River was on my left.
I did not jump in!
Agreed. The surest way to get yourself hopelessly lost in Pittsburgh is to use Google or Mapquest.
It was too long in the past that either Google or Microsoft mapping software had directions on how to drive to Europe. I wonder if anyone made it?
Fine - same rule applies!
...and tell the operator to send the ambulance chaser asap...
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