Woman Sues Google for Bad Directions
Lauren Rosenberg used Google Maps to find walking directions to navigate around Park City Utah, was guided down a highway with no sidewalks, and didn’t notice she should have found an alternate route so a car hit her as she was walking down the middle of a lane of the highway. Rosenberg is suing Google as well as the person that hit her. One wonders if anyone has walked off a bridge because their GPS said they were supposed to get on the road passing under it.
Lauren Rosenberg, a Los Angeles California native, is suing Google because Google Maps issued directions that told her to walk down a rural highway. She started walking down the highway–which had no sidewalk or pedestrian paths–and was struck by a car. She is suing Google for her medical expenses ($100,000), as well as punitive damages. She is also suing the driver who struck her, Patrick Harwood of Park City, Utah. There’s not much more to say–she started walking down the middle of a highway, and a car hit her. Who wouldn’t have seen that one coming? I can’t wait until Ms. Rosenberg tries to travel overseas (“The plaintiff was unaware that attempting to kayak 5,100 miles is an unreasonable endeavor”).
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