“The maps shouldn’t have shown that the bridge was complete.”
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.
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.
Take control of your mapping and learn to use your brain
#openstreetmap
- 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.
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.
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?
reminds me of the movie “idiocracy” when Joe looks out of the window at the hospital.
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.
Darwin would like to have a word with the driver
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
