As a driver if google tells me I should cross a bridge, but there is no bridge I look for a different route. I don’t try to cross the nonexistent birdge, that’s insane
It was dark and raining with low visibility. It also gradually drops off, and I wouldn’t expect even an expert driver to notice the drop in the same low visibility conditions. There were no barricades or warning signs. Some people might see this headline and think “lmao wow what an idiot, just pay attention,” but I don’t think they realize how difficult it would have been to notice this drop in the dead of night during rain, especially when you have a trusted, live-updating map service like Google Maps assuring you there is a bridge there.
The bridge collapsed 10 years ago, so there’s no reason Google should have been routing through it. People warned Google for years to update their maps to remove the bridge, but they didn’t.
They aren’t the only entity being sued by the way. Even if the Google suit goes nowhere, the city is being sued for failing to block off the bridge. But that doesn’t make a clickbait headline.
You ever see that episode of The Office (US) where Michael drives into a lake because his GPS told him to? It sounds pretty ridiculous, but I have no doubt there’s people who put too much faith in their maps
From the article, it sounds like it was too dark to see the bridge was out, but then again you shouldn’t be driving where you can’t see either
On Lake Livingston in Texas when I was a kid there was one of the roads that went through the valley before it was a lake and was still there. Jsut went straight into the lake. Centerline was still painted on it. It was being used as a boat rampbut I was always surprised I never heard about anyone driving straight into the lake there. At theat time the GPS did show it still as a road straight through the lake which is weird because the lake was made well before GPS existed.
Looks like now they added some artificial land and made a proper boat ramp. I think it was old 190, apparently if you have sonar you can follow the road to the old path of the river and find the old truss bridge still under there.
How does this can happen?
As a driver if google tells me I should cross a bridge, but there is no bridge I look for a different route. I don’t try to cross the nonexistent birdge, that’s insane
It was dark and raining with low visibility. It also gradually drops off, and I wouldn’t expect even an expert driver to notice the drop in the same low visibility conditions. There were no barricades or warning signs. Some people might see this headline and think “lmao wow what an idiot, just pay attention,” but I don’t think they realize how difficult it would have been to notice this drop in the dead of night during rain, especially when you have a trusted, live-updating map service like Google Maps assuring you there is a bridge there.
The bridge collapsed 10 years ago, so there’s no reason Google should have been routing through it. People warned Google for years to update their maps to remove the bridge, but they didn’t.
They aren’t the only entity being sued by the way. Even if the Google suit goes nowhere, the city is being sued for failing to block off the bridge. But that doesn’t make a clickbait headline.
You ever see that episode of The Office (US) where Michael drives into a lake because his GPS told him to? It sounds pretty ridiculous, but I have no doubt there’s people who put too much faith in their maps
From the article, it sounds like it was too dark to see the bridge was out, but then again you shouldn’t be driving where you can’t see either
On Lake Livingston in Texas when I was a kid there was one of the roads that went through the valley before it was a lake and was still there. Jsut went straight into the lake. Centerline was still painted on it. It was being used as a boat rampbut I was always surprised I never heard about anyone driving straight into the lake there. At theat time the GPS did show it still as a road straight through the lake which is weird because the lake was made well before GPS existed.
Looks like now they added some artificial land and made a proper boat ramp. I think it was old 190, apparently if you have sonar you can follow the road to the old path of the river and find the old truss bridge still under there.