“The maps shouldn’t have shown that the bridge was complete.”
I had to check. I’m pretty sure it’s this bridge in OpenStreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15%2F28.02674%2F79.48926 And there it is also not closed off for routing
I fail to see how that’s Google Maps’ fault. This is the city’s fault for not blocking the bridge. Would people have complained if a paper map didn’t update all the collapsed bridges daily?
A more accurate title is “Three men die when road crews fail to barricade a broken 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
Truly the show’s biggest jumping of the shark.
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.
They were driving in the night. Visibility was poor. The road wasn’t closed off. Just to name a few.
You’re probably imagining reflective signs, barricades, lights, led warning signs, etc. I know i would expect all of those.
But this is India. And we’re talking about a company that didn’t even block the road. There is a very good chance there were no indications visible in the night.
…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?
Have you not seen Speed? You drive faster.
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.
Do they not put barricades in the road when it’s closed in India?
Infrastructure and Driving in India come with substantial risks to life.
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.
Had a lady in my store yesterday insisting that we had an item because google said so
Man, I went to like 3 different Targets to find an item because the company that made the item said those Targets carried it. None of them did.
Of course, nothing is better than a store saying they carry an item when they in fact do not. That happens pretty frequently when I’m looking for something specific. Not out of stock mind you, but they will never have stock.
Those people are fun the first and second time. After that you start getting a certain attitude towards them.
After working retail for more than a decade… Those people deserve it. The type of person to argue with an employee about whether they carry something or not solely because Google said so, are the quintessential Karen. They deserve every bit of unhelpfulness right back at them for the misery they sow everywhere they go.
Take control of your mapping and learn to use your brain
#openstreetmap
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
reminds me of the movie “idiocracy” when Joe looks out of the window at the hospital.
