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Couple suing Google Maps after it sent them to a notorious crime hotspot where they were brutally attacked and robbed at gunpoint (www.the-express.com)

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Couple suing Google Maps after it sent them to a notorious crime hotspot where they were brutally attacked and robbed at gunpoint::A Los Angeles couple filed a lawsuit against Google Maps for allegedly navigating them to a notorious South African crime neighborhood where tourists are left 'injured, maimed or dead.'

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[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 43 points 9 months ago

Maybe don't try to blame a map for giving you directions to a place you asked to go to.

[-] scorchingheat@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make, since I very clearly wrote I also don't think this was Google's fault (even if they did stop sending people through that area a mere couple of weeks after this incident).

I also don't think it's fair to blame these people for this, and so I'm trying to understand what you would've done differently in the same situation.

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

I don't think anyone is unaware that South Africa is dangerous. Research on where to go and how is something everyone should do a lot of before going.

[-] kn33@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

They didn't ask to go to the dangerous place, they asked for the airport and Maps took them through the dangerous place.

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