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Topic: Woman who walked onto highway sues Google Maps

A Utah woman is suing the search engine Google, claiming its maps function gave her walking directions that led her onto a major highway, where she was struck by a car.

The lawsuit seeks more than $100,000 in damages.

Lauren Rosenberg sought directions between two addresses in Utah about 3 kilometres apart. The top result suggested that Rosenberg follow a busy rural highway for several hundred metres. The highway does not have sidewalks. One stretch is blocked by a noise barrier that pushes pedestrians closer to the roadside.

After walking on to the highway, Rosenberg was struck by a car. The driver, Patrick Harwood, is also named in the suit.

Google has pointed out that the directions Rosenberg sought come with a warning of caution for pedestrians. Rosenberg claims that she accessed the Maps function on her Blackberry mobile device, where it did not include the warning.

Others have pointed out that Rosenberg might have been best served by her own eyes after she reached a T-junction and found herself confronted with a patently unsafe walk


http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/816724--woman-who-walked-onto-highway-sues-google-maps

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Re: Woman who walked onto highway sues Google Maps

One can't buy common sense!

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Re: Woman who walked onto highway sues Google Maps

shame it didn't finish her, that level of stupidity must be removed from the gene pool

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Re: Woman who walked onto highway sues Google Maps

There does seem to be somewhat of a sidewalk but there probably was snow on the sides of the road so she opted to walk in the center of the street.

However, the blackberry device does have the warning, been checked. And the guy hitting her should have been more careful, she shouldn't have been a stupid women.

One of those cases of "Technology can't be wrong."

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Re: Woman who walked onto highway sues Google Maps

i agree..  how stupid must you be..

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Re: Woman who walked onto highway sues Google Maps

I'd make a Darwin comment but I never look where I'm going either and would rather not tempt fate...

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Re: Woman who walked onto highway sues Google Maps

if I were Google's attorney I'd adjourn the trial to the highway so the jurors could examine the scene of the crime

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+1 for 1337ness, +1 for originality, and +1 for punking her arse!

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Re: Woman who walked onto highway sues Google Maps

What a dumb bitch! Everyone knows google maps gives you driving directions and there is a 90% chance it will involve a highway! I'm sure it said something like I-94 on it too!

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[Reburn]You'd think that she'd figure something was wrong when she saw there was [] cars coming![/Reburn]

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Re: Woman who walked onto highway sues Google Maps

I would sentence her to death for being too stupid to be left alive.

She's dumb enough to walk on a highway into traffic, but she's proposing that a google warning of "don't walk into traffic on a highway you dumbass" would have prevented this. I doubt this proposition.

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Re: Woman who walked onto highway sues Google Maps

americans are retards, plain and simple. I think I've been saying this awhile now... X(

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Re: Woman who walked onto highway sues Google Maps

i tac offonz 2 thatt!!

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Re: Woman who walked onto highway sues Google Maps

would plain simple retards invent a phone that charges you $50 to play tetris?  HA

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Re: Woman who walked onto highway sues Google Maps

i did not read all this, besides the first post that is... damn shes stupid man...

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Re: Woman who walked onto highway sues Google Maps

Only in the United States of Apes

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17 Reply by fdgsfgfgdgdgdf (edited by fdgsfgfgdgdgdf 03-Jun-2010 22:30:04)

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Re: Woman who walked onto highway sues Google Maps

i read about this aswell.

how stupid can one be?
if she is smart enough to use google maps but not smart enough to know that cars can hit her then she should be sued for her stupidty. for bringing others in danger.

and yes. these kind of things only happen in USA.

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Re: Woman who walked onto highway sues Google Maps

well google maps does often tell you to go too far and then make a  U Turn

so I hope she wins $10 million

and then I hope the person who hit her sues her for $10 million for the damage she did to his car, jaywalking

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Re: Woman who walked onto highway sues Google Maps

and for intentional infliction of emotional distress for doing extreme and outrageous activities which caused him physical symptoms

So I told the cop, "No YOU'RE driving under the influence... of being a JERK!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFjjO_lhf9c

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20 Reply by The Yell (edited by Chris_Balsz 03-Jun-2010 23:47:14)

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Re: Woman who walked onto highway sues Google Maps

/me brakes the ambulance hard so dpenguins runs into it   tongue

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Re: Woman who walked onto highway sues Google Maps

hahaha, i only hand out business cards in the hospital when they are on heavy medication!

So I told the cop, "No YOU'RE driving under the influence... of being a JERK!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFjjO_lhf9c

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