Woman Sues google for getting hit by a car.

[Cermage]

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.

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.

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stupid lawsuits by stupid people

 

[redact]

hahahahaha
what an idiot :')

 

[Bladexdsl]

 

[YayMii]

Saw this earlier on another website. If she had any brains, she would be able to see that the road was unsafe BEFORE crossing it. *facepalm*

 

[Danny600kill]

Google says : Ok now turn left and walk of this cliff
Woman says : Ok, seems safe

Woman dies

Husband sues as it was Google's fault, not here fault for following Google's directions without thinking


These things aren't perfect, she probably asked for the fastest way and that was it, she could of used her common sense and just not crossed it. wow people are dumb

 

[clegion]

goodness the stupidity of this people

 

[Thoob]

Serious logic fail.

 

[Absynthe]

My GOD. I wish she had died in that accident. I am serious. No, I don't feel bad for her. She doesn't deserve to be alive, she is of no utility to the world.

 

[Elritha]

Saw this on another news site. This should be thrown out of court and the woman fined for wasting the court's time. Most of these map programs have a disclaimer to cover against misdirections etc.

 

[prowler]

Google had this planned all along...

 

[Infinite Zero]

tl;dr yet, I find it funny

 

[Eighteen]

OMG Retard?!

Now I'm all Angry Because of her stupidity >_< stupid woman...........

Haha oh well being angry isn't healthy

hahaah Stupid woman !!

 

[Magmorph]

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.

She sure was paying a lot of attention to that car before it hit her. She could even tell it was speeding.

 

[Raika]

Pffft. The car didn't hit her hard enough.
Not hard enough to get rid of all of that stupidity.

 

[frogmyster3]

I'm going to sue Google for linking me to an irrelevant website during a search then.

There are some stupid people in this world.

 

[mad567]

Omg what a driver

............

Seriously could she earn money from this??????/

 

[Blaze163]

Anyone else think of the term 'natural selection' when they read these stories? I mean if you can clearly see a busy road, your satnav says go but common sense says find another way, and you choose to follow the machine, then what the hell do you expect to happen?

 

[Bladexdsl]

i bet the guys at Google are laughing their guts out at this dumb bitch. she ain't gonna get a cent!!

 

[Devante]

Shouldn't have been using her blackberry while driving.

 

[mrT3]

There are some stupid people in this world.

not just some, A LOT