If Google told you to jump off a cliff, would you?

Fortune - Seth Weintraub - ‎May 29, 2010‎
A Utah woman used Google Maps' walking directions on her Blackberry and was given directions to walk onto a highway. She got hit and is now suing Google for ...

Google Maps location history gets new dashboard view

CNET Asia (blog) - Jessica Dolcourt - 31 May, 2010
If you're the kind of person who likes to trace your own footprints, you may be interested in the new experimental feature that Google introduced Wednesday ...

Let Google Maps help you plan your next bike trip around Lincoln

Lincoln Journal Star - 31 May, 2010
For years, bikers were bugging Google to add biking directions to Google Maps. One website collected nearly 52000 signatures requesting a "bike there" ...

Google Buzz now supports BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows phones

CNET Asia - Jessica Dolcourt - 31 May, 2010
We described the desktop manifestation of Google's then-new social networking as a privacy nightmare that was aggravating to disable, and the mobile version ...

Google Maps Lawsuit: Woman Follows Directions, Gets Run Over

Mashable (blog) - 31 May, 2010
When Google Maps' walking directions instructed Lauren Rosenberg to walk along a very busy highway with no pedestrian walkway, she followed the directions ...

Google Maps: When it makes sense to use commonsense

Only Kent (blog) - 31 May, 2010
Just because an instruction is written down doesn't mean you have to follow it to the letter does it? Don't we all still have to apply an element of ...

Google Maps sued for issuing wrong directions

V3.co.uk - Rosalie Marshall - 31 May, 2010
A woman in the US is suing Google because its Maps service gave her the wrong walking directions. Lauren Rosenberg claims the directions caused her to get ...

Woman gets hit by car, sues Google

TG Daily - Emma Woollacott - 31 May, 2010
A woman injured by a car on a busy road is suing Google for giving her dangerous walking directions. Lauren Rosenberg used Google Maps to get directions on ...

Google Provides Bad Directions - Claims a Woman

TopNews United States - Amandeep Dhaliwal - 31 May, 2010
With the arrival of every new technology, also comes a variety of laws. A woman named Lauren Rosenberg was using her Google Maps on her BlackBerry to get ...

Woman Using Google's Directions Gets Hit By Car, Sues Google

TheTechJournal.com (blog) - 31 May, 2010
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Woman Suing Google Over Directions That Got Her Hit By A Car

Gizmodo Australia - Kyle VanHemert - 31 May, 2010
I trust Google with a lot of things, but when in doubt I always fall back on good-old common sense. ...

Woman Sues Google Over Bad Directions

Techie Buzz - Tehseen Baweja - ‎May 29, 2010‎
With the advent of every new technology comes a variety of lawsuits. The “Walking Directions” feature of Google Maps ...

Woman Sues Google After Getting Ran Over While Following Maps Directions

Erictric - 31 May, 2010
Park City, Utah resident Lauren Rosenberg has filed a lawsuit with a US District Court in Utah against Mountain View-based Google after she was ran over in ...

Person Struck By A Car After Following Walking Directions From Google Maps

UberGizmo (blog) - 31 May, 2010
Technology is great, but sometimes weird things happen as folks begin to depend on technology too much. Such might be the case for a lady who was in Utah. ...

Google Maps directions lead to lawsuit

TECH.BLORGE.com - Dave Parrack - ‎May 29, 2010‎
The one thing technology is never going to be able to replace is common sense. And that's sadly lacking in some people. ...

Hit by car, woman sues Google for bad walking directions

Examiner.com - ‎May 29, 2010‎
We've warned in the past that you shouldn't blindly rely on your GPS unit to give you directions, as people have been led astray (and nearly off cliffs) ...

 

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