There's a bit more to the bridge story than I guess that article says. The bridge was.not maintained by local or state government, it was part of private land that a developer had owned but the company dissolved. The family are also suing the supposed companies that currently own the land, but only the Google Maps part is making headlines.
@@Indy_Bendy The more interesting part is that there were reflective barricades blocking the bridge at one point but for whatever reason they were removed.
@@PlanetJeroen ok. Yes. But the driver is to blame as well. Imagine driving to a party. Get there safely and promptly. Yet you choose a different route to drive back home. That's my first issue with the driver. Why take an unfamiliar path when you know the condition of the road, meaning the rain and that it was night. He chose the most dangerous option. Like wow. But I put blame on the owners of the bridge, Google maps, the driver, and the City government. It's not 1 party's fault.
Honestly its kinda sad think about it. They are trying to sue google because thats more money potentially. They should sue the city for not doing anything for 10 years
I live in Hickory and I remember when this happened, I still live in Hickory and know exactly where this bridge is as I used to live literally a block away from it. I am pretty sure they still haven’t fixed it. I can go take a pic of it any time. The bridge is extremely close to 2 elementary schools as well, Clyde Campbell elementary and Snow Creek elementary.
That would be fantastic actually, or even if you could post the coordinates or a link for Google Maps! Because none of the media seems to be interested in preventing future deaths by telling us WHICH bridge to avoid and where it is exactly 😭
When the article says “unmarked” I wonder if that refers to the Google maps not marking the bridge as a valid route or that the literal bridge had no real world warning signs or markers to let people know that this bridge isn’t safe. Everyone is so quick to judge in these situations. If it’s late at night and the bridge has no lights on it, you too would 100% drive off if it just abruptly ended. I mean come on, how often are you thinking “wait, is there a giant chasm right in front of me?” When your driving.
It's actually both. There weren't any barricades or signs that indicated the route was unsafe. The company that had owned the land had dissolved, and ownership was apparently spread out among multiple companies.
As a driver you have to be prepared for everything, especially at night. EDIT: also the bridge did have barricades warning drivers but for some baffling reason they were removed.
This is not that far fetched at all. I was riding with a friend and we almost drove directly into a lake. The locals knew it was there I guess? So there were no reflective signs. We crested this hill and right as we came over it, everyone in the car started freaking out because the lights reflecting off the water looked crazy when you didn't expect it. Lol We were inches from water.
I can see why they’re mad at google maps but I’d be more mad that the town or state never marked the broken bridge or even blocked it off, that seems more outrageous to me
The family should be going after the local and state government. Leaving this bridge completely unmarked/open to drive on is negligence on their behalf. I don’t care who may have owned the property, it is the job of government to protect its citizens from private enterprise. See private property being condemned for being unsafe regardless of ownership.
'Member that one dashcam vid of the cop who was called for backup in cali, he sped past hella reds in the rain, lost control & crashed into that right sidewalk dumpster killing a pedestrian on the other side just livin
@AndukeMTGEDH I think most of us would be horrified to be in this scenario. Not annoyed or ready to mock a person we've killed. It's not really comparable to when I talk shit about a co-worker or something.
I don't believe anyone contacted Google about it, the maps outside of the camera cars are kept up to date mostly by the community and anyone can make edits. I've made plenty in the past and they're usually reviewed and accepted within days or weeks. For this to have gone 10 years without a fix is hard to believe.
@@Mictheblacksmith is there any proof to that? like paper records, anything? cause simply going on twitter and posting how much you hate your town, and actually filing a complaint are two different things. I hate to sit here and play devils advocate for this kinda stuff but it would also suck if all the t's werent crossed and i's not dotted and blame was passed
One time google maps told my boyfriend and I to drive into mexico just to turn around and drive back into america to get to the other side of the freeway when there were multiple places to cross it before we got to the border 😭
Seen a lot of people saying that it was barricaded but they got stolen, which is so stupid cuz you'd think if you barricades got stolen, you wouldnt just give up and let the public just access your dangerous, half fallen down death bridge, you'd get something harder to move/ steal, like concrete barricades, or even just a big heavy tree trunk. Its just negligence by the land owners, plain and simple.
As much as I feel bad for the family. I blame the city/property owner on this one, you'd think there would be a gate or some kind of warning that there's a giant death cliff ahead. That, or the dude wasn't paying attention. (And yea, I hate sticking up for billion dollar corporations aswell.)
Yeah, this wasn't Google's fault. Though I ultimately don't care if they get sued for it or not since it'll just be a drop in the bucket for Google, they weren't the reason why that bridge wasn't marked as unstable. Luckily, the family is also suing the land owners for not marking or closing off the bridge.
Navigation systems aren't a full replacement for your perception. Never intended as such. Owner of the bridge is/should be responsible whether it's private property or state owned. Google not giving a warning is one thing, the owner not barricading the entrance to the bride or put warning signs out is another.
They should have just a bit of responsibility for disregarding/neglecting the concerns and warnings of the locals who notified them. It’s not fully on them obviously, but if we take this to its logical conclusion, the map should be accurate and not mislead people. A 10 year old broken bridge is not something to overlook. Safety protocols/regulations should be in place, and I would imagine part of that responsibility is on google for not giving blatantly FALSE information, you feel me?
I remember few years ago me and my friends wanted to visit a lake near our place on cycle but didn't knew any shortcuts, so we decided to rely upon gmaps. It took us through multiple narrow streets and after sometime, we reached a compound, as per google we had to take the cycles and climb over the compound. Their was a beer stall as well beside it. People were drunk at 7am and few of them asked us to go on the other side of the compound and they would pass the cycle. We knew we won't get the cycle if we leave it with them so we quickly ran away.
I remember when gps navigation in cars was new. A couple in a mercedes was led to a ferry crossing. They saw the water. Still they blindly followed the nav direction. Stupid is who stupid does. A road can be blocked at any time by anything. Weather, accidents and whatever sh1t happens. But in this case there is actually one to blame its Hicksville. wtf
If the city didn't take responsibility for this, why didn't those "concerned neighbors" go out and put up some sawhorses to barricade the bridge? This was a failure on every level while everyone waited for someone else to fix it.
Many people use google maps offline, so something like that wouldn't work for the majority of people. I can't remember which GPS it is but one of them has a feature like that, people can report sudden road conditions such as a car accident and it'll notify you if it's on your route.
I visited my buddy in NC over the summer, up the road from him was a road that was blocked off, but we were able to drive down it, after a mile or two of driving we came to a bridge that had a sign that said out of order. The bridge looked totally fine but we still turned around.
If Google wasn't informed by the locals who didn't take care of the bridge then Google isn't liable. They should sue the city/state who didn't take care of it.
Yeah I mean Google maps should have that in there system if it's been a known issue for awhile. But shouldn't the City be responsible for the infrastructure? It's a bridge that had been out since 2013 why weren't there at least concrete barricades or something to prevent people from driving off?
I’ve had apple maps tell me to turn the wrong way onto a one-way highway off-ramp. You gotta be careful when using navigation apps, but it’s scary to think that a you might get seriously hurt or killed if you dont realize it’s giving you faulty directions (Also just to be clear, I’m not meaning to say this comment in a victim blaming way, but sharing how easy it is for something like this to happen - I’ve been put in dangerous situations like this because of navigation apps!)
Several times my parents would try to use the GPS to get us to the waterpark and the damn thing wants to cut through a gated community that you cant go into unless you know someone there
So that's why I've began seeing ads for Google Maps. I thought it was strange to advertise a tool that's been out for what feels like decades, but it makes sense that Google's trying to counteract this story's coverage so that the public's opinion of Maps doesn't drop.
Bruh I’ve lived here for over a decade why tf didn’t I know about this happening last year???? Also I’m not surprised it hadn’t been repaired because it takes a loooong time for them to fix bridges here for some reason and don’t even get me started on that shit show that was that one bridge we had collapse because that thing was so ugly and out of place and also didn’t even look structurally sound to me even as someone without construction experience or knowledge Like it was so tall with like nothing supporting it Idk why we suck at bridges but I guess it’s our thing to have bridge problems
The reason it was never repaired is because the company that was responsible for it went under and I guess the city figured it wasn't their responsibility to repair it.
A lot of times something like this happens its due to someone unfortunately paying attention but because it wasn't marked and unbarricaded I can't fault this man. I really hope his family gets closure
They are not. GPS is a tool, drivers are responsible for driving on the road and the government is responsible for maintaining the roads and their safety. It's also in the terms of service that you agree to when using their GPS that their maps may differ from actual road conditions so you are still responsible for your safety and that they're exempt from liability.
Imagine a bridge somewhere collapses and someone drives in it, sues Google Maps... Crazy times. Ever seen the notifications of navigation systems? That you, Idk, are respeonsible as the driver to actually perceice your surroundings still?
Where i live in anchorage alaska theres a one way where google maps wants you to go the wrong way, there are no turns for like .5 miles to escape if you realized too late.
I miss living in Anchorage. I use to work at fred meyer but yeah that's scary as hell dude. Should be able to log inaccuracies amd dangerous routes in the app
Okay but if the dude couldn't see far enough ahead of him to tell that the bridge was out, he probably shouldn't have been on road in the first place. Seems like negligence from the local government, and the deceased.
This literally is that bit from The Office when they just drive right into a lake cause maps told them too. Do people not look where they are actually driving?
Ultimately, you are always the person most responsible for YOUR driving, he HAD to have been driving irresponsibly somehow to drive off a literal chasm into a river, not to say others are not partly to blame but still
WTF? If it collapsed years ago, why wasn't there something to block bridge access? Should sue whoever is responsible for that bridge before sueing google maps. Especially when they were fully aware of it and did nothing. Also that cop should spend the rest of his life in jail.
Apple Maps send me down a road that was taken out and turned into a corn field 300 feet down and it wasn’t marked anywhere so I can see how this would happen.
So is no one going to question the fact that this dude just straight up drove off a bridge was he watching his phone the whole time like you have to watch where you’re going and then see the bridge just end
This stuff is incredibly sad and common in NC. I dont live out on Hickory, i live in the triangle, and WE have this problem. Maps is incredibly out of date in certain areas of the state, making figuring out where youre going a challenge. Part of the issue (and this is me spitballing as a north Carolinian) is how our land is divided up. Where this incident happened was privately owned, which in terms of roads doesnt necessarily mean you arent allowed to use use it, but it means the responsibility to maintain the road falls onto the property owner(s) of where the road is situated. And private roads/private property is expansive in NC. Both of those are difficult, but not impossible, for Google to get access to for documenting and updating their services. That results in a lot of areas with outdated images, traffic reports, or even straight up road paths as depicted in google maps. Its very easy to see a scenario where someone legitimately drove in without knowing. And it's dangerous. If you have the ability, always drive your route during the day as a test and to get familiar with the area. That way, you arent forced fo rely on a device that, while programmed to help you, doesnt have all the information it needs to guarantee your safety.
Google was repeatedly told for 10 years to update the route, the city, land owners and google are all being sued. If Charlie read the entire article, people watching the video would know this.
@@mburg33 So what, a map is never 100% correct all the time, that's why you as the driver need to be prepared for anything. The collapsed bridge not being blocked however is something that should be sued over, and the city/state/owner or whatever may not even be liable. If you look further into that bridge you can find out that it was actually blocked off with reflective barriers at one point, but they were removed by someone.
@@mburg33 drivers are still responsible for their desicions while driving, youre supposed to be focused on the road ahead of you, gps isnt supposed to be 100% relied on more than your intuition. the one with the worse blame here is still the city, where were the barricades? where were the signs? why was the route not completely inaccessible if it was unsafe? why did it stand for 10 yrs without being repaired? even if the barricades were removed, sounds like the city should have had someone out there checking the route was still guarded and safe and they would have known the barricades were removed and replaced them.
Hell it had been out a decade, they had plenty of time to, if not fix it, outright demolish the rest of it and close it off. How this went ignored for 10 years is beyond comprehension, it couldn't have possibly been that far off the beaten path if this had been reported before.
Almost happened to me 10 years ago with a rental car In Sardinia when the GPS told me (with a sweet voice) to turn right….Good thing that I stopped to check. This 50 feet long dirt road just abruptly stopped over high cliffs !! 😮 (Don’t want to joined the Club Med). 🏊
99% of the news on facebook was fake anyways, i remember the time when everyone thought George Lucas was dead, even the actual news stations started reporting it and he was sitting at home wondering why they're saying he's dead. There's almost no perfectly credible sources of news anymore.
Anyone who has ever read the first couple lines of the GPS TOS will know that it tells you in very specific terms that they will not be held responsible for you being a dip shit and blindly following a GPS when you should be using it for directions only and using your eyes and brain to drive your car...
It IS Google's fault. The bridge has been closed for a decade, and every time Google does this, people tell Google there isn't a road there. They literally knew and didn't care.
Yeah, google map is always give out wrong direction of my apartnent, sending Uber driver to the neighbourhood where road has a dead end. being contact with them severial time, yet no progress has been made.
While i assume there’s more to this I’m surprised this hasn’t happened sooner, I can’t count on 2 hands how many times gps has told me or someone i know to do some stupid stuff
google maps is terrible I went to a concert in Saint Louis and it wanted me to go through one of the worst places in the city. I was like fuck that my bitch ass isn't going through there.
From my understanding the bridge had collapsed on 2013, so 10 years ago, and then it was left like that without any change from the local government henceforth the fault lies in the local government not google I guess. Yall tell me what you think
Not sure if it's the government either, it was barricaded, google street views picture of it shows the barricade, but when this incident happened the barricade was gone so I assume someone stole it and it was never replaced. I wonder how long the barricade was missing, if it was more than a week then I'd say yeah, sue the city, but if it was just a day or two before then I'd be considering manslaughter charges against whoever stole them.
@@SekiberiusWelkesh that makes sense, I didn't know there were barricades there before. Might as well as you say we don't know how long has it been since they've been gone or who took them.
Honestly, suing Google maps doesn't really make sense. Like many others have pointed out, it's the landowner that's ultimately responsible for repairs and putting up barricades, if driving conditions are so poor you cannot see forward. You should not be driving period. It's just like a traditional map. If you see the map and where you go appears to go right, There's no road there. You don't turn. It's really unfortunate this guy lost his life, I'm sure his family is absolutely devastated, But if you can't see you shouldn't be driving. All maps and mapping softwares can be wrong and have been wrong in the past in various ways. Ultimately, the only one in control of your car is you. Now if it was a Tesla and it drove off on autopilot, that'd be something else because you wouldn't be the one explicitly controlling it at that point.
meh, this is not a google problem .. google doesnt maintain roads or bridges. Go sue the state or county or whatever it is that handles road safety over there.
I mean, when you think about it, blaming Google or anyone else is like wrapping your car around a telephone pole and trying to blame the communications company because you didn't expect a pole to be there. It's absolutely asinine.
Charlie should have read the entire article as there’s so many people in the comments defending Google here. The bridge has been down for a decade, everyone (including google) was repeatedly told about this problem and that someone could die from this. I also read from another comment that this occurred with heavy downpours at night where there’s overgrowth and curvy roads, there’s no reasonable way to blame the poor man for his own death. He was driving back from his daughter’s 9th birthday party, are people so heartless to not only blame the victim but to accuse the family of just seeking google money?
There's no curves or overgrowth, you can literally find pictures of that entire road, it's fairly straight and flat. People need to stop over relying on GPS, it's sad this happened but hopefully people will learn from this, learn to plan your routes before hand.
id place blame on whovers job it is to mark that bridge not google maps the bridge was unmarked so why would google be expected to know not to send people on it? its a tragic death but i think the blame is all wrong
Probably, that's why I mount my phone to my windshield so I don't have to look away from the road to verify my direction. This is a perfect example of why you need to plan your routes and not over rely on GPS to get you places, I mostly just use it so I can see the names of upcoming streets.
Yeah, seems to me that responsibility should fall more on the local government for not barricading access rather than Google. I'm seeing in the comments that the land it was on technically belonged to a dissolved company, but either way. Get the company to fix it within a reasonable deadline, or have the city take possession of it due to it causing a public hazard. In either case, Google should update their maps as often as possible, but it's no shock that no matter how large they are, one company trying to track every road way in the world is going to have a fairly sizable delay in updating individual closures in small towns. Map software or not, that accident could have happened if the road wasn't marked as dangerous in any way.
There's a bit more to the bridge story than I guess that article says. The bridge was.not maintained by local or state government, it was part of private land that a developer had owned but the company dissolved. The family are also suing the supposed companies that currently own the land, but only the Google Maps part is making headlines.
What's the more interesting part.
@@Indy_Bendy The more interesting part is that there were reflective barricades blocking the bridge at one point but for whatever reason they were removed.
@@SekiberiusWelkesh interesting to you.
right, that kinda makes more sense. so google told people to use a private road with a collapsed bridge? then yah, they are suing the right party(s)
@@PlanetJeroen ok. Yes. But the driver is to blame as well. Imagine driving to a party. Get there safely and promptly. Yet you choose a different route to drive back home. That's my first issue with the driver. Why take an unfamiliar path when you know the condition of the road, meaning the rain and that it was night. He chose the most dangerous option. Like wow.
But I put blame on the owners of the bridge, Google maps, the driver, and the City government. It's not 1 party's fault.
Google once told me to drive through a bike path in a park, i drove away and Google led me back to it like "no, i need you to do this"
Google like "dude I‘m filming this, I swear to god please do this it’s gonna be so fucking funny, headquarter‘s gonna lose their shit"
as someone from hickory , the town not doing anything about it isn’t suprising. They really shouldve put up something to warn people.
Why couldnt a citizen of the town just plop down a wooden sign saying the bridge was out?
Or go on Google maps and mark the road as closed..You can do that to any closed road. If several people mark it as closed, Google will update
@@caffeinatedpossum because sadly people are lazy and just assumed people would see it most likely
@@FingerEverything Good to know, but some people don’t want to take the few seconds of their time to do that sadly.
@@leaf-uj5zr And here are the results
They couldn’t have even put up tape? Cones? Literally anything?
Honestly its kinda sad think about it. They are trying to sue google because thats more money potentially. They should sue the city for not doing anything for 10 years
@@KaiMoya420probably easier to win against google than the city, honestly idk
@@KaiMoya420 They're suing the land owners. The article is trash and didn't include that bit in.
there were barricades but someone stole them.
Right, like isn't there a "Bridge Out" sign?!?!
God damn coming home from his daughters birthday party!???? Oh man that hurt to hear.
I live in Hickory and I remember when this happened, I still live in Hickory and know exactly where this bridge is as I used to live literally a block away from it. I am pretty sure they still haven’t fixed it. I can go take a pic of it any time. The bridge is extremely close to 2 elementary schools as well, Clyde Campbell elementary and Snow Creek elementary.
That is horrible I am so sorry
That would be fantastic actually, or even if you could post the coordinates or a link for Google Maps! Because none of the media seems to be interested in preventing future deaths by telling us WHICH bridge to avoid and where it is exactly 😭
When the article says “unmarked” I wonder if that refers to the Google maps not marking the bridge as a valid route or that the literal bridge had no real world warning signs or markers to let people know that this bridge isn’t safe. Everyone is so quick to judge in these situations. If it’s late at night and the bridge has no lights on it, you too would 100% drive off if it just abruptly ended. I mean come on, how often are you thinking “wait, is there a giant chasm right in front of me?” When your driving.
It's actually both. There weren't any barricades or signs that indicated the route was unsafe. The company that had owned the land had dissolved, and ownership was apparently spread out among multiple companies.
As a driver you have to be prepared for everything, especially at night. EDIT: also the bridge did have barricades warning drivers but for some baffling reason they were removed.
Yeah, MF should have brought a parachute
@@azalagoSo it was an unfortunate circumstance where a systematic failure failed a man on his drive.
This is not that far fetched at all.
I was riding with a friend and we almost drove directly into a lake.
The locals knew it was there I guess? So there were no reflective signs.
We crested this hill and right as we came over it, everyone in the car started freaking out because the lights reflecting off the water looked crazy when you didn't expect it. Lol
We were inches from water.
I can see why they’re mad at google maps but I’d be more mad that the town or state never marked the broken bridge or even blocked it off, that seems more outrageous to me
they did but the barricades were moved
@@literallylondonn so… they had no barricades is what I’m getting
@@voxi3127 they did at one point, but for some reason they were moved
@@literallylondonn so. they had no barricades.
@@captainmycaptain8334yep
I once had google maps tell me to swim across a river next to a US Naval Base; still have the screenshots of it too
Rest in peace to that guy damn this world sucks
Im really glad to see people in the comments of this video and Charlie aren't making fun of the victim this time.
The family should be going after the local and state government. Leaving this bridge completely unmarked/open to drive on is negligence on their behalf. I don’t care who may have owned the property, it is the job of government to protect its citizens from private enterprise. See private property being condemned for being unsafe regardless of ownership.
Stay off private property
They should have had it barricaded.
Edit: and holy shit that cop hitting that woman, that's disgusting hearing them talk about her like that.
'Member that one dashcam vid of the cop who was called for backup in cali, he sped past hella reds in the rain, lost control & crashed into that right sidewalk dumpster killing a pedestrian on the other side just livin
If you look more into the story you'll find that it was barricaded at one point but nobody know why the barricades were removed.
The cop was on a private call. Imagine a world where your private conversations would be judged. Sound good?
@AndukeMTGEDH I think most of us would be horrified to be in this scenario. Not annoyed or ready to mock a person we've killed. It's not really comparable to when I talk shit about a co-worker or something.
@@AndukeMTGEDH Sounds like it was recorded on the body cam. Body cam footage is viewable by the public with a simple FOIA request.
Robin William's GPS joke finally came true
RIP Robin Williams. Man made my childhood.
Thank you Lola
I don't believe anyone contacted Google about it, the maps outside of the camera cars are kept up to date mostly by the community and anyone can make edits. I've made plenty in the past and they're usually reviewed and accepted within days or weeks. For this to have gone 10 years without a fix is hard to believe.
It says in the article that residents complained to Google.
They may have just complained to the owners.
@@Mictheblacksmith is there any proof to that? like paper records, anything? cause simply going on twitter and posting how much you hate your town, and actually filing a complaint are two different things. I hate to sit here and play devils advocate for this kinda stuff but it would also suck if all the t's werent crossed and i's not dotted and blame was passed
I've lived in north carolina for a few years now and this sounds about accurate to the average level of intelligence and diligence around here
One time google maps told my boyfriend and I to drive into mexico just to turn around and drive back into america to get to the other side of the freeway when there were multiple places to cross it before we got to the border 😭
Google maps has been doing shit like this for years. Some poor guy near me has his circular driveway marked as a public road
Seen a lot of people saying that it was barricaded but they got stolen, which is so stupid cuz you'd think if you barricades got stolen, you wouldnt just give up and let the public just access your dangerous, half fallen down death bridge, you'd get something harder to move/ steal, like concrete barricades, or even just a big heavy tree trunk. Its just negligence by the land owners, plain and simple.
There's a delivery driver in Mass who "followed Google maps" into a creek. And he got arrested for it!
As much as I feel bad for the family. I blame the city/property owner on this one, you'd think there would be a gate or some kind of warning that there's a giant death cliff ahead. That, or the dude wasn't paying attention.
(And yea, I hate sticking up for billion dollar corporations aswell.)
Yeah, this wasn't Google's fault. Though I ultimately don't care if they get sued for it or not since it'll just be a drop in the bucket for Google, they weren't the reason why that bridge wasn't marked as unstable. Luckily, the family is also suing the land owners for not marking or closing off the bridge.
Article says Google was notified about the bridge but they didn’t do anything, Charlie briefly skimmed that part.
Navigation systems aren't a full replacement for your perception. Never intended as such. Owner of the bridge is/should be responsible whether it's private property or state owned.
Google not giving a warning is one thing, the owner not barricading the entrance to the bride or put warning signs out is another.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639Google was notified for years and did nothing.
They should have just a bit of responsibility for disregarding/neglecting the concerns and warnings of the locals who notified them. It’s not fully on them obviously, but if we take this to its logical conclusion, the map should be accurate and not mislead people. A 10 year old broken bridge is not something to overlook. Safety protocols/regulations should be in place, and I would imagine part of that responsibility is on google for not giving blatantly FALSE information, you feel me?
I remember few years ago me and my friends wanted to visit a lake near our place on cycle but didn't knew any shortcuts, so we decided to rely upon gmaps.
It took us through multiple narrow streets and after sometime, we reached a compound, as per google we had to take the cycles and climb over the compound.
Their was a beer stall as well beside it. People were drunk at 7am and few of them asked us to go on the other side of the compound and they would pass the cycle. We knew we won't get the cycle if we leave it with them so we quickly ran away.
I remember when gps navigation in cars was new. A couple in a mercedes was led to a ferry crossing. They saw the water. Still they blindly followed the nav direction. Stupid is who stupid does. A road can be blocked at any time by anything. Weather, accidents and whatever sh1t happens. But in this case there is actually one to blame its Hicksville. wtf
This is like that "THERE'S NO ROAD!" scene from The Office.
If the city didn't take responsibility for this, why didn't those "concerned neighbors" go out and put up some sawhorses to barricade the bridge? This was a failure on every level while everyone waited for someone else to fix it.
Another reason Gmaps should've alr allowed real time input from users like those apps where one can report speedtraps Irt
That would cause issues. You need to verify stuff.
Many people use google maps offline, so something like that wouldn't work for the majority of people. I can't remember which GPS it is but one of them has a feature like that, people can report sudden road conditions such as a car accident and it'll notify you if it's on your route.
I feel the suit should go after the city or company doing whatever work there for not making it clear the bridge collapsed
what type of officers do you expect to be left after the whole de-fund the police fiasco
Google has gotten me lost in the middle of Wyoming on my bicycle, and has misdirected me multiple times. Google maps is absolutely terrible!
I visited my buddy in NC over the summer, up the road from him was a road that was blocked off, but we were able to drive down it, after a mile or two of driving we came to a bridge that had a sign that said out of order. The bridge looked totally fine but we still turned around.
The burger king of cellphone services 😂
That cop hitting that woman at high speed and not giving a f is literally The Boys situation
shouldnt they sue the people that didnt barricade the bridge instead? Its the classic if google told you to jump off a bridge would you do it?
Commander is more interesting than standard. The deck building is just more complicated.
If Google wasn't informed by the locals who didn't take care of the bridge then Google isn't liable. They should sue the city/state who didn't take care of it.
Makes me glad the biggest problem I'm having with T-Mobile is my voicemail switched over to Spanish
I've literally had Google maps tell me to take a left turn off of a bridge. This is really sad!!! I'm so sorry for the family!!!
Yeah I mean Google maps should have that in there system if it's been a known issue for awhile. But shouldn't the City be responsible for the infrastructure? It's a bridge that had been out since 2013 why weren't there at least concrete barricades or something to prevent people from driving off?
“It can’t mean that, there’s a lake there!”
MICHAEL!
I’ve had apple maps tell me to turn the wrong way onto a one-way highway off-ramp. You gotta be careful when using navigation apps, but it’s scary to think that a you might get seriously hurt or killed if you dont realize it’s giving you faulty directions
(Also just to be clear, I’m not meaning to say this comment in a victim blaming way, but sharing how easy it is for something like this to happen - I’ve been put in dangerous situations like this because of navigation apps!)
Several times my parents would try to use the GPS to get us to the waterpark and the damn thing wants to cut through a gated community that you cant go into unless you know someone there
So that's why I've began seeing ads for Google Maps. I thought it was strange to advertise a tool that's been out for what feels like decades, but it makes sense that Google's trying to counteract this story's coverage so that the public's opinion of Maps doesn't drop.
A real life The Office moment
Real
I laughed and now i feel bad
4:26 what a fuckin rollercoaster lmao.
Bruh I’ve lived here for over a decade why tf didn’t I know about this happening last year???? Also I’m not surprised it hadn’t been repaired because it takes a loooong time for them to fix bridges here for some reason
and don’t even get me started on that shit show that was that one bridge we had collapse because that thing was so ugly and out of place and also didn’t even look structurally sound to me even as someone without construction experience or knowledge
Like it was so tall with like nothing supporting it
Idk why we suck at bridges but I guess it’s our thing to have bridge problems
The reason it was never repaired is because the company that was responsible for it went under and I guess the city figured it wasn't their responsibility to repair it.
Also republican area. That partially explains it because they have a lack of regulation because "regulation holds companies down"
Shit was like real life “The Boys” when that lady got hit by the cop
A lot of times something like this happens its due to someone unfortunately paying attention but because it wasn't marked and unbarricaded I can't fault this man. I really hope his family gets closure
Not Google maps fault though, they should be suing the land developer or the government.
@@Js-eq7ydthe article says Google was notified but refused to mark the bridge as a hazard, yes they share the blame.
They are not. GPS is a tool, drivers are responsible for driving on the road and the government is responsible for maintaining the roads and their safety. It's also in the terms of service that you agree to when using their GPS that their maps may differ from actual road conditions so you are still responsible for your safety and that they're exempt from liability.
@@mburg33 they have no obligation to do that. Not their problem.
Imagine a bridge somewhere collapses and someone drives in it, sues Google Maps...
Crazy times.
Ever seen the notifications of navigation systems? That you, Idk, are respeonsible as the driver to actually perceice your surroundings still?
Sue the city for not baricading it instead of google
Where i live in anchorage alaska theres a one way where google maps wants you to go the wrong way, there are no turns for like .5 miles to escape if you realized too late.
I live in Seattle where there's tons of one way streets, and google maps has told me to go the wrong way soooo many times
I miss living in Anchorage. I use to work at fred meyer but yeah that's scary as hell dude. Should be able to log inaccuracies amd dangerous routes in the app
The one on abbott?@@htxflow
I used to live right by Hickory growing up, that’s sad
Okay but if the dude couldn't see far enough ahead of him to tell that the bridge was out, he probably shouldn't have been on road in the first place.
Seems like negligence from the local government, and the deceased.
i live in philly and all the gps apps never block off closed roads so annoying
Step 1, eyes on the road. Step 2, don't drive like you're running from the cops. Step 3, hit the brakes.
If it’s in the dark you just wouldn’t see the drop it would blend in.
This literally is that bit from The Office when they just drive right into a lake cause maps told them too. Do people not look where they are actually driving?
Those damm satellites!!
That is more on the town than on Google Maps.
Ultimately, you are always the person most responsible for YOUR driving, he HAD to have been driving irresponsibly somehow to drive off a literal chasm into a river, not to say others are not partly to blame but still
WTF?
If it collapsed years ago, why wasn't there something to block bridge access? Should sue whoever is responsible for that bridge before sueing google maps. Especially when they were fully aware of it and did nothing.
Also that cop should spend the rest of his life in jail.
Apple Maps send me down a road that was taken out and turned into a corn field 300 feet down and it wasn’t marked anywhere so I can see how this would happen.
So is no one going to question the fact that this dude just straight up drove off a bridge was he watching his phone the whole time like you have to watch where you’re going and then see the bridge just end
why sue google when u should sue the government for not marking and fixing the bridge
But if it's unmarked, why did the dude think it was sensible to continue?
I live in n.c, I've had Google maps take me to a dead end road then turn right into the woods
The gps says go straight…..Micheal this is a lake!!!!
This stuff is incredibly sad and common in NC. I dont live out on Hickory, i live in the triangle, and WE have this problem. Maps is incredibly out of date in certain areas of the state, making figuring out where youre going a challenge. Part of the issue (and this is me spitballing as a north Carolinian) is how our land is divided up. Where this incident happened was privately owned, which in terms of roads doesnt necessarily mean you arent allowed to use use it, but it means the responsibility to maintain the road falls onto the property owner(s) of where the road is situated. And private roads/private property is expansive in NC. Both of those are difficult, but not impossible, for Google to get access to for documenting and updating their services. That results in a lot of areas with outdated images, traffic reports, or even straight up road paths as depicted in google maps. Its very easy to see a scenario where someone legitimately drove in without knowing. And it's dangerous. If you have the ability, always drive your route during the day as a test and to get familiar with the area. That way, you arent forced fo rely on a device that, while programmed to help you, doesnt have all the information it needs to guarantee your safety.
Ahh in my home state of NC makes so much more sense now
Sounds like the city/state/owners should be sued instead, but the family probably figures they could get more money from Google.
Yep
Google was repeatedly told for 10 years to update the route, the city, land owners and google are all being sued. If Charlie read the entire article, people watching the video would know this.
@@mburg33 So what, a map is never 100% correct all the time, that's why you as the driver need to be prepared for anything. The collapsed bridge not being blocked however is something that should be sued over, and the city/state/owner or whatever may not even be liable. If you look further into that bridge you can find out that it was actually blocked off with reflective barriers at one point, but they were removed by someone.
@@mburg33 drivers are still responsible for their desicions while driving, youre supposed to be focused on the road ahead of you, gps isnt supposed to be 100% relied on more than your intuition. the one with the worse blame here is still the city, where were the barricades? where were the signs? why was the route not completely inaccessible if it was unsafe? why did it stand for 10 yrs without being repaired? even if the barricades were removed, sounds like the city should have had someone out there checking the route was still guarded and safe and they would have known the barricades were removed and replaced them.
Waze wouldn't have done that shit
I kept thinking charlie had a large beetle on his head but it was a dirty mark on my tv hahah stoned ass
The bridge problem all could have been avoided with some 2x4s and a few hours of work.
But… you know… common sense isn’t so common these days.
Hell it had been out a decade, they had plenty of time to, if not fix it, outright demolish the rest of it and close it off. How this went ignored for 10 years is beyond comprehension, it couldn't have possibly been that far off the beaten path if this had been reported before.
why not sue the state/city for not blocking off the road and not putting signs it's not googles job to maintain roads.
Almost happened to me 10 years ago with a rental car
In Sardinia when the GPS told me (with a sweet voice)
to turn right….Good thing that I stopped to check.
This 50 feet long dirt road just abruptly stopped over
high cliffs !! 😮
(Don’t want to joined the Club Med). 🏊
I was super suprised to not have heard about that but then i remembered that in canada we cant see the news on Facebook anymore....
lol "news" on facebook. Probably a good reason for that. Facebook is a cesspool
99% of the news on facebook was fake anyways, i remember the time when everyone thought George Lucas was dead, even the actual news stations started reporting it and he was sitting at home wondering why they're saying he's dead.
There's almost no perfectly credible sources of news anymore.
Those adds are crazy
Anyone who has ever read the first couple lines of the GPS TOS will know that it tells you in very specific terms that they will not be held responsible for you being a dip shit and blindly following a GPS when you should be using it for directions only and using your eyes and brain to drive your car...
Ok. Not really Google's fault. But i guess its an easier fight than suing your NC government.
True you can't beat the government
Locals have emailed, and have been trying to contact google about the bridge since 2013. That’s ten years they’ve had to update one thing.
It IS Google's fault. The bridge has been closed for a decade, and every time Google does this, people tell Google there isn't a road there.
They literally knew and didn't care.
Nah it's absolutely googles fault lol
@@Jesusluvzand 10 years they had to fix the thing.
Yeah, google map is always give out wrong direction of my apartnent, sending Uber driver to the neighbourhood where road has a dead end. being contact with them severial time, yet no progress has been made.
While i assume there’s more to this
I’m surprised this hasn’t happened sooner, I can’t count on 2 hands how many times gps has told me or someone i know to do some stupid stuff
google maps is terrible I went to a concert in Saint Louis and it wanted me to go through one of the worst places in the city. I was like fuck that my bitch ass isn't going through there.
I got an ad for a cremation service when I clicked on this.
From my understanding the bridge had collapsed on 2013, so 10 years ago, and then it was left like that without any change from the local government henceforth the fault lies in the local government not google I guess. Yall tell me what you think
Not sure if it's the government either, it was barricaded, google street views picture of it shows the barricade, but when this incident happened the barricade was gone so I assume someone stole it and it was never replaced. I wonder how long the barricade was missing, if it was more than a week then I'd say yeah, sue the city, but if it was just a day or two before then I'd be considering manslaughter charges against whoever stole them.
@@SekiberiusWelkesh that makes sense, I didn't know there were barricades there before. Might as well as you say we don't know how long has it been since they've been gone or who took them.
Naw dawg that’s some shit from the Office, nope nvm
Oh shit YEARS
Dude didn’t have eyes?
Wouldnt it be the state/countys fault to not have it marked?
nvm charlie mentioned it 2 mins in
you gotta go on the command zone!
I bet they instantly updated it.
Google maps is horrible in general even on an iPhone 14 it’s laggy as fuck and gives the wrong directions.
I hope they sued the city too
Honestly, suing Google maps doesn't really make sense. Like many others have pointed out, it's the landowner that's ultimately responsible for repairs and putting up barricades, if driving conditions are so poor you cannot see forward. You should not be driving period. It's just like a traditional map. If you see the map and where you go appears to go right, There's no road there. You don't turn. It's really unfortunate this guy lost his life, I'm sure his family is absolutely devastated, But if you can't see you shouldn't be driving. All maps and mapping softwares can be wrong and have been wrong in the past in various ways. Ultimately, the only one in control of your car is you. Now if it was a Tesla and it drove off on autopilot, that'd be something else because you wouldn't be the one explicitly controlling it at that point.
iirc im pretty sure you still need to keep you hands on the wheel and eyes on the road while on autopilot so you still have control over the vehicle.
Charlie's hasn't seen nobody wtf
meh, this is not a google problem .. google doesnt maintain roads or bridges. Go sue the state or county or whatever it is that handles road safety over there.
Doctor Who did this like 15 years ago
Only in 2023 can you not pay attention and drive yourself off a bridge and it somehow be everyone elses fault. Our society is fucked.
I mean, when you think about it, blaming Google or anyone else is like wrapping your car around a telephone pole and trying to blame the communications company because you didn't expect a pole to be there. It's absolutely asinine.
it was late at night and there was no markings indicating that the bridge was unsafe
imagine just chilling and suddenly there is a chasm below you
Same shit happened to my cousin getting hit by a cop he didn't die or anything but there blaming him buncha bullshit
Charlie should have read the entire article as there’s so many people in the comments defending Google here. The bridge has been down for a decade, everyone (including google) was repeatedly told about this problem and that someone could die from this. I also read from another comment that this occurred with heavy downpours at night where there’s overgrowth and curvy roads, there’s no reasonable way to blame the poor man for his own death. He was driving back from his daughter’s 9th birthday party, are people so heartless to not only blame the victim but to accuse the family of just seeking google money?
There's no curves or overgrowth, you can literally find pictures of that entire road, it's fairly straight and flat.
People need to stop over relying on GPS, it's sad this happened but hopefully people will learn from this, learn to plan your routes before hand.
Dude, who drives an doesn't look where their going? There's a reason there's a law to get off your phone while driving. Case and point
@@goheadcuz1618 late at night, and no markings on the bridge that said it was unsafe
id place blame on whovers job it is to mark that bridge not google maps the bridge was unmarked so why would google be expected to know not to send people on it? its a tragic death but i think the blame is all wrong
Google won’t have to settle, they can win this suit easily.
A lot of cops here in California love driving and looking at their little laptops
How is this google fault, are you kidding me?
How can people pay this little attention while driving? im sure he looked at google maps more than the road.
Probably, that's why I mount my phone to my windshield so I don't have to look away from the road to verify my direction. This is a perfect example of why you need to plan your routes and not over rely on GPS to get you places, I mostly just use it so I can see the names of upcoming streets.
Yeah, seems to me that responsibility should fall more on the local government for not barricading access rather than Google. I'm seeing in the comments that the land it was on technically belonged to a dissolved company, but either way. Get the company to fix it within a reasonable deadline, or have the city take possession of it due to it causing a public hazard. In either case, Google should update their maps as often as possible, but it's no shock that no matter how large they are, one company trying to track every road way in the world is going to have a fairly sizable delay in updating individual closures in small towns. Map software or not, that accident could have happened if the road wasn't marked as dangerous in any way.
Get the company to fix it? The dissolved company?
You sure you know English? Dissolved has a very final meaning.
@@freedustin Take a deep breath. It's going to be okay. You'll get through this.
@@Emilis2023 its not my problem...you said it.
@@freedustinJust an awfully silly thing to get aggressive over. Figure you must have been having a bad day or something.
@@Emilis2023 its just a comment, aggression is not involved. You just confuse me by trying to invoke a group that is no longer a group.
T-mobile rules, id say 1 step below verizon