[The Digital Leader]

From: News.com.au

A LOS Angeles woman is suing web giant Google for giving her "unsafe" directions while travelling interstate.

While in Park City, Utah, Lauren Rosenberg used her BlackBerry to ask Google Maps for walking directions to Prospector Avenue from Daly Street.

The directions led her onto a busy highway where she was hit by a car.

Now she is suing Google and the car's driver over the incident.

Ms Rosenberg claims the driver, Patrick Hardwood, failed to keep a proper eye out for pedestrians, failed to keep control of the car and was speeding.

But, she claimed in a lawsuit filed late last week, Google was also responsible for leading her onto the highway in the first place.

"As a direct and proximate cause of Defendant Google's careless, reckless, and negligent providing of unsafe directions, Plaintiff Lauren Rosenberg was led onto a dangerous highway, and was thereby stricken by a motor vehicle," the lawsuit said.

When accessed from a computer, Google Maps displays a warning next to the walking directions to Prospector Avenue from Daly Street.

"Use caution — This route may be missing sidewalks or pedestrian paths," the warning reads.

However it is not clear if the warning is displayed to users who access the directions from a BlackBerry.

The warning does not appear on an iPhone, reported the Search Engine Land blog.


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Oh come on! what is the world coming too? She should have been watching where she was going to and if she was silly enough to step out on to a highway while cars where traveling past then what would or should you expect? I can't believe she was not done for "J" walking!