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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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[-] MimicJar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Well put. In so many of these threads I see childish "Boo! Fuck big corp Boo!!!" without actual discussion.

If this was Apple Maps do folks behave the same? Bing Maps? OpenStreet Maps? A printed Rand McNally map?

Or what if the car were a Tesla? Suddenly it's "Boo cars", or maybe we hate Ford? Boo Ford!!!

None of that is really relevant.

Now as was pointed out, there was improper signage, so maybe the state/county/city/local roadworks are partially at fault here. That is going to require some investigation.

By all accounts there was some bad weather and someone misjudged what needed to be done to keep themselves safe. That sucks, I feel for the family, but the navigation app they used isn't relevant.

No one "Backing the big corp" because they are a big corp. I'm "backing the big corp" because we all know this is frivolous. If this was instead the "cool new app written by a middle schooler" I'd still be backing them because the app is completely unrelated to the accident.

this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
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