“The maps shouldn’t have shown that the bridge was complete.”
…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?
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
A more accurate title is “Three men die when road crews fail to barricade a broken bridge”.
What excuse do they have for ignoring traffic signs and literally every other indication that the road is closed?
A GPS doesn’t absolve you from personal responsibility. Use your eyes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Do they not put barricades in the road when it’s closed in India?
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.
Infrastructure and Driving in India come with substantial risks to life.
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
There were almost monthly stories about Apple Maps leading to death and near-death experiences when they came out, not sure about now. Hopefully they got better.
I use it. It’s definitely gotten better. The traffic and business data isn’t as good as Google’s, but otherwise they’re pretty comparable these days.
Genuine question: If Apple Maps is inferior to Google Maps, why do you use it? I don’t want to sound judgemental, but it seems like trading giving your info from one giant corporation to another. If I ever de-Google I’ll switch to Open Street Maps…
Want the original icon for the app a route leading off the middle of a bridge?
I’ve been sent the wrong way up one way streets (big flaw to not have the fucking direction of traffic marked so that’s also on the city design) and my wife was sent through a quarry once
Fucking weird part is that the quarry route is a legit road that connects to a shopping center on the other side, so I guess that one is fine?
Take control of your mapping and learn to use your brain
#openstreetmap
Had a lady in my store yesterday insisting that we had an item because google said so
Those people are fun the first and second time. After that you start getting a certain attitude towards them.
reminds me of the movie “idiocracy” when Joe looks out of the window at the hospital.
Sure glad they circled it, I didn’t know which end was unfinished.
lol but I am pretty sure what’s circled is the downed vehicle.
Bridges and cars are easy to confuse. Hence the red circle
Darwin would like to have a word with the driver
