Woman Walks Into Traffic and Sues Google

Common Sense Takes a Vacation

[incrediBILL]

A pedestrian injured by a motorist while following an online route has filed a lawsuit claiming Google Inc. supplied unsafe directions. ...
Google Maps led her to a four-lane boulevard without sidewalks that was "not reasonably safe for pedestrians," according to the lawsuit filed by the Northridge, Calif., resident

[news.yahoo.com...]

Hopefully they'll throw this out of court because common sense and your own sense of self-preservation should kick in before you let Google's directions cause you to play in traffic.

This reminds me of something my parents used to tell me when I was younger and blamed someone else for my mistakes. They'd say "If Google told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it?"

[tech.fortune.cnn.com...]

[Brett_Tabke]

Danny Sullivan was first to write about this over on SEL: [searchengineland.com...] However, DS says Gary Price of Resource Shelf tipped him off to it. I would like to like to Gary's original entry, but I can't find it!? I find it very interesting that this story broke the way it did.

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Anyway, it is an interesting story on the limits of liability and website TOS's...

[incrediBILL]

I find it very interesting that this story broke the way it did.

Yes.

Wish I'd have known the original source when I posted it because how it broke and how the major news agencies handled the original source was way more interesting than the woman's story itself.

Major news agencies ripping off SEL is nothing short of amazing.

[phranque]

However, he says Gary Price of Resource Shelf tipped him off to it. I would like to [link] to Gary's original entry, but I can't find it!?

danny mentioned in his personal blog that gary didn't actually write about the story - he found the story in his "search research", downloaded a copy of the suit and passed the story on to SEL.