lady sues google maps cos she got hit by a car on a freeway.

[vk.jonno]

Woman hit by car sues Google over directions | News.com.au

i think she should loose the case cos who would walk on a highway in the 1st place?

i quoted it so u didnt have to go onto another link

A LOS Angeles woman is suing web giant Google for giving her "unsafe" directions while travelling interstate.

While in Park City, Utah, Lauren Rosenberg used her BlackBerry to ask Google Maps for walking directions to Prospector Avenue from Daly Street.

The directions led her onto a busy highway where she was hit by a car.

Now she is suing Google and the car's driver over the incident.

Ms Rosenberg claims the driver, Patrick Hardwood, failed to keep a proper eye out for pedestrians, failed to keep control of the car and was speeding.

But, she claimed in a lawsuit filed late last week, Google was also responsible for leading her onto the highway in the first place.

"As a direct and proximate cause of Defendant Google's careless, reckless, and negligent providing of unsafe directions, Plaintiff Lauren Rosenberg was led onto a dangerous highway, and was thereby stricken by a motor vehicle," the lawsuit said.


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When accessed from a computer, Google Maps displays a warning next to the walking directions to Prospector Avenue from Daly Street.

"Use caution — This route may be missing sidewalks or pedestrian paths," the warning reads.

However it is not clear if the warning is displayed to users who access the directions from a BlackBerry.

The warning does not appear on an iPhone, reported the Search Engine Land blog.

Google Australia had no comment on the case.

[minux]

Only in America...sadly, it will not be long before Australia has these sorts of cases.

[ari666]

rosenburg... i wonder what nationalality she is?

hmmm.

[Johnsy]

Rosenburg,greenburg,goldburg,iceburg whats the difference ? lol

[skyracer]

Ah hahahaha. Some people...makes you wonder.

[vk.jonno]

its just common scence...

[TVR-190]

i might sue google because overseas directions tell you to swim or canoe across the ocean.

[HamaTime™]

i might sue google because overseas directions tell you to swim or canoe across the ocean.

fkn lol!!!!!!

[fuzzy2308]

not long unti this shit is hapening here

[Tim Smtih]

Sounds like that case where a person set a car/vehicle on cruise control thinking the car would drive itself, and sued when the car crashed. Is this a good time to bring up a very serious health condition i have recently developed? Yes i'm quite sure it's contagious and has no cure......i'm allergic to stupid people.

[Astranomical]

i might sue google because overseas directions tell you to swim or canoe across the ocean.

That reminds me - I was down in Brisbane for a job interview last week, and had to go out to Milton. So I went to Google to get directions from the Milton train station to where I had to go. Instead of giving me the directions for the Milton train station in Milton, QLD it gave me directions from somewhere called "Milton" over in the US, and suggested I Kayak across the Pacific Ocean and go through Japan. Come to think about it, I should've sued 'em.

[D3CID3R]

Like what Atra said

[Troy711]

^^^Bahahhaha Google fail!

[VKCOMMO]

LOL, I love the pic asw well

[Cúl-Báire]

Only in America...sadly, it will not be long before Australia has these sorts of cases.

I blame Labour!

Seriously people take some responsability for your ****ing actions, what idiot (other than this one) walks down a highway and expects NOT to be hit by a car!.. Sadly I am sure we will see more and more cases like this, although I would like to think Australian's as a population aren't that ****ing stupid!

[Stressball]

^^^Bahahhaha Google fail!

NO U! That's Google WIN

[torana355]

This kind of crap should be thrown out of court. There are people with real issues and the courts time is being wasted with people like this.

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

I didn't think Google was under any duty of care to inform the woman to look both ways before crossing a road. Maybe she should sue her parents too for not teaching her that.

[MagiTEK]

I would imagine that americans would have some sort of road rules like ours where pedestrians (and bicycles, slow moving crud) are not allowed on highways/freeways.

Plus I doubt she would win, I am sure Google would have it written somewhere in their TOS that the directions they provide should be used with caution/ common sense etc...

[acarmody]

Not to mention that Google have a little bit of money to spend on lawyers.

But it is America, so she might very well win. Probably win $500 billion or something.

[sleepa]

I would imagine that americans would have some sort of road rules like ours where pedestrians (and bicycles, slow moving crud) are not allowed on highways/freeways.

Plus I doubt she would win, I am sure Google would have it written somewhere in their TOS that the directions they provide should be used with caution/ common sense etc...

Ah, but you forget, common sense doesn't exist anymore, so we have to blame someone else.
You'd think more people would win Darwin awards these days.

[Blown V6 Hatch]

Common sense isn't very common....