It's like these people also don't see the deaths that happen due to navigational negligence or malfunction (e.g. Google's navigation killing someone new to North Carolina at night in the rain because it went off a bridge that was gone since 2013 and was not removed despite notifications from local government to do so). It's seriously time to slap some liability on these companies instead of making excuses for them.
I agree with everything you said, but there is also another issue with the NC accident.
That town/city/county (whoever was responsible) had YEARS to put up a barricade but they did not. Even if they parked a broken-down dump truck in front of the bridge people might hit that instead of driving off a road into water. At least it would be above ground and visible - you can't see a missing bridge. If that isn't a good reason to spend some of the roadway money the county receives then someone needs to explain.
But seriously - there are dead ends, cones, road blocks, signs all across the USA. Why didn't this place do their job and block a known hazard? This isn't the first time a car went into the water there..
Oh yes, I agree with that completely. Shared liability for sure, but Google deserves liability for not making changes for a decade that they were notified to make. Surviving family should definitely sue both, but neither should be let off the hook for sure.
If this were one-off, maybe. But it's not the first time navigation has sent people off dead end roads.
In low visibility, we are trained to rely on our navigation so while there is also some personal responsibility, you may also not see it until it's too late. Nothing negates the responsibility of everything else involved.
It's like these people also don't see the deaths that happen due to navigational negligence or malfunction (e.g. Google's navigation killing someone new to North Carolina at night in the rain because it went off a bridge that was gone since 2013 and was not removed despite notifications from local government to do so). It's seriously time to slap some liability on these companies instead of making excuses for them.
I agree with everything you said, but there is also another issue with the NC accident.
That town/city/county (whoever was responsible) had YEARS to put up a barricade but they did not. Even if they parked a broken-down dump truck in front of the bridge people might hit that instead of driving off a road into water. At least it would be above ground and visible - you can't see a missing bridge. If that isn't a good reason to spend some of the roadway money the county receives then someone needs to explain.
But seriously - there are dead ends, cones, road blocks, signs all across the USA. Why didn't this place do their job and block a known hazard? This isn't the first time a car went into the water there..
Oh yes, I agree with that completely. Shared liability for sure, but Google deserves liability for not making changes for a decade that they were notified to make. Surviving family should definitely sue both, but neither should be let off the hook for sure.
If this were one-off, maybe. But it's not the first time navigation has sent people off dead end roads.
In low visibility, we are trained to rely on our navigation so while there is also some personal responsibility, you may also not see it until it's too late. Nothing negates the responsibility of everything else involved.