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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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Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de
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If you can’t stop within the range of visibility, you’re driving faster than road conditions allow. That part is on the driver. The lack of barriers or warnings is on the municipality.

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Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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I always like to point this out.

In every single driver’s manual, it states having a 4 second window of visibility, minimum. On rainy days/fog/bad weather, more if possible.

That buffer is to help avoid unknown surprises.

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