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Google Maps employee questioned in connection with car crash from bridge
A car fell from a collapsed bridge in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. There were three people in the car, all of them died. Local police believe that the Google Maps service was involved in the accident because it did not warn the driver about the bridge collapse. The BBC reports this.
According to police, the car fell into the Ramganga river in Badaun district on November 24 around 10 am. Two brothers and their friend were traveling in it to a wedding. Police believe Google Maps routed them across a bridge that was destroyed in floods last year. There were also no guardrails or signs on the road leading to the bridge to warn of the danger.
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Indian police have opened a case of manslaughter, for which they have already questioned four traffic engineers from the Public Works Department and a Google Maps employee.
Sources of information for updating Google maps include traffic data from drivers and reports from authorities about traffic jams and closures. According to former Google Maps employee Ashish Nair, navigation applications cannot be held responsible for traffic accidents, and users must assess the situation on the road themselves.
“Data remains a big challenge in India. There is no system for capturing infrastructure changes in the web interface, which can then be used in applications such as Google Maps. For example, Singapore has such a system,” Ashish Nair told the BBC.
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Google Maps in India is the most popular navigation application, and local residents use the name of the service as a synonym for the GPS satellite system, the BBC emphasizes. About 60 million users use the application every day.
Previously, Google Maps has already been linked to driver deaths in India. So, last year, two people died after driving a car into a river. After this, the Indian police urged not to trust the navigator during floods.
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