Posted on 05/31/2010 6:14:09 AM PDT by Willie Green
A woman is suing Google for more than US$100,000 after following directions on Google Maps and being hit by a car.
Lauren Rosenberg, from Utah, using her Blackberry phone, followed the site's directions onto Deer Park Drive, which turned out to be a rural highway with no footpath.
Instead of looking for an alternative route, Rosenberg tried to follow the road for the half-mile Google Maps had suggested, but was hit by a passing vehicle.
"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, causing her to suffer severe permanent physical, emotional and mental injuries," her lawsuit reads.
Google's mapping service states the directions service is a beta product – that is, in a state of development and not necessarily accurate – but this warning is not displayed on Blackberry phones.
This needs to be chucked for failure to state a claim, immediately.
What stupid logic. Throw the case out and revoke the license of the attorney who filed it.
Should have taken a train.
I had a pal who’s GPS led her to a dead end with a lake....literally. I’m glad she did not follow those directions or she would have drowned. Smart girl.
I was hotshot driving one night in a rural area and my Garmin GPS sent me to a road ('something' lane .. I forget) that I had T-boned into.
I called everyone I knew to ask, "Left or right?" and no one that answered (it was about 1AM IIRC) knew.
So I took a right ... which was the wrong choice.
As I drove an extended cab Sterling PU w/38 foot heavy loaded trailer, I was soon enough in trouble.
Couldn't back down and couldn't go forward, off to the side, snowing ...
Long story short, my boss lambasted me for trusting the GPS too much and I was charged back the little over $500 to get towed out when daylight came.
If I only knew I could have sued Garmin.
Like a deer in the headlights !
She was the one with the driver’s licence,not the GPS.If she can’t drive safely then pull her DL.
The way the article is written, I believe she was on foot.
She wasn’t driving, she was walking. She’s still and idiot and this lawsuit will get tossed (hopefully).
Can't be sure but since it mentions there being no footpath, she may have been walking.
We have to take the power out of the hands of the courts for unsupervised and unlimited seizures of private property by judicial whim.
“Smart girl.”
But isn’t it reassuring to know that if she had drowned, a member of the plaintiff’s bar would have been happy to sue the GPS creator on behalf of her estate?
Lawyers are a major drag on GDP. We could easily get by with half the number now in practice.
She is careless & greedy.
Her attorney is greedy & shameless.
The judges that allow these types of lawsuits in court and the public that refuses to impeach said judges are the true idiots.
(and I am probably an idiot for getting my blood pressure up over yet another example of the degeneration of law & justice.)
Yep, always take a map when going to an unfamiliar area. When in doubt, consult the map.
GPS directions got people in trouble for years where I work.
There is a nearly direct route from the airport to my building, with an exit onto the street in front of my building. However, the exit is for employees of a certain federal agency. Left turns only. There are plenty of signs, and arrows on the pavement.
If you make a right turn towards my building, only 20 yards away, heavily armed security forces will chase you down and ask uncomfortable questions before they write you a ticket.
Is she really an idiot? Consider the fact that she's suing the party with the deepest pockets (Google) instead of the person who hit her, maybe she's not so dumb. Emphasis on "maybe."
Now given the state of our legal system in this country, the number of liberal judges in our court system and the hard-left careening our country has taken politically, I have absolutely ZERO confidence that a judge will look at this case and toss it on its lack of merit. After all, we live in a victim-class society where someone else is always responsible for our bad choices or misfortune, and that someone else is going to pay!
LOL! And should have used her own eyes, too.
Willie, this gal is your ideal customer for the trains you keep pushing at us.
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