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Family sues Google after Maps allegedly directed father off collapsed bridge (www.theguardian.com)
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Tech company faces negligence lawsuit after Philip Paxson died from driving off a North Carolina bridge destroyed years ago

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[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thing is, as the article points out, people had contacted Google trying to get this fixed.

There was more than one failure here. That’s why the family is suing more than one entity.

[–] coffinwood@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

The family might as well sue the local medium that failed seeing the incident in their crystal ball.