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Seriously how can you blame Google maps? This article is a good example of how reliant some people are becoming, still made me laugh.

I've had Google maps tell me to drive down one-way streets the wrong way as well as drive down sidewalks before, but it doesn't mean I was stupid enough to do it.

Just take mental note of a Google maps mistake and submit a fix to their maps division.

bool get_hit_by_car = (stupid ? true : false);

Not the first Gothamist story on something like this.

http://gothamist.com/2008/10/01/gps.php

I would bet that the dumbass was looking at her phone when she got hit. Online maps make people sooooooo stupid sometimes. Maybe she should have used her map to navigate around the street without sidewalks.

was it a highway? i've walked down plenty of streets without sidewalks (my hometown mostly had none, because the dumbasses were afraid it might 'turn into the bronx'! (apparently, the bronx is known for being able to walk down the street).

presumably, there was also a map on her phone, so you could see an alternate route. this woman must have been senile or something serious, because that is just crazy.

Someone please run her over with a semi. Her lawyer too.

Common sense is rare commodity indeed.

As we like to say in Brooklyn... Lauren, Go play in traffic.

There's no cure for stupid.

Nothing to do with NYC. The woman is from CA.

'nuff said.

You're a genius.

I guess this means that if some tourist asks you for directions you should decline to give them to avoid any liability if they turn out to be clumsy idiots.

I was thinking the same thing. If I tell a tourist how to walk down CPW to the Museum of Natural History am I liable if that person gets hit by a car?

Sounds like another example of lousy greedy money grubbers getting involved in accidents through their own negligence and their ambulance chasing lawyers sue the pants off everyone. If there's no sidewalk - don't walk there!

What if the highway was under construction when she got there and she fell in a giant ditch? What if there was a forest fire blowing across the road? Would she wander into it like a lemming because her map told her to and get burned to death? If there are dangerous conditions it is your own responsibility to avoid them!

If people start suing and winning against online mappers, they might have to remove the feature and that would ruin it for everyone. Sometimes the map will be wrong - watch where the funk your going!

More background how much of an idiot she is: she walked with traffic instead of against it (had she walked on the proper side of the road, there would have been clearance for her to walk off the road), and she could have taken mass transit along the same route, which is free in Park City.

all google map directions say "use caution" at the beginning.

Even if there was no sidewalk, Google Maps didn't tell her to walk down the middle of the street. Presumably should would have stayed behind the curb, right?

I hope she loses the case. She sounds like an opportunist.

Reminds me of this guy, Michael, who drove his rental car into a lake because the navigation voice told him too turn right. This woman sounds about as bright.

oh yeah i know michael. i works at my job. your right he is a total moron