For those not aware of them, the Darwin Awards are (generally posthumous) awards "honouring those who improve the species... by accidentally removing themselves from it!")

Anyway, a Utah woman, Lauren Rosenberg, is suing Google after Google Maps "told" her to walk onto a busy highway, where she was hit by a car. She is also suing the driver.

Here is the route that Google gave her:



The red arrow has been added by the site where this report was posted. It also reports that Microsoft Bing provides a similar route and a similar caution.

Regular users of Google Maps would have been aware that the route that it provided from Cambridge, Massachusetts to Cambridge, England suggested swimming across the Atlantic. This might have engendered considerable caution.

Every few months there is a report of some Darwin candidate who follows GPS directions or similar, and drives his vehicle onto a laneway that ends in a cliff, or onto a bridge that isn't there.

Is common sense becoming increasingly scarce, or are these just outlier cases emphasising that among mainstream people it still flourishes?

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Is common sense becoming increasingly scarce, or are these just outlier cases emphasising that among mainstream people it still flourishes?

The higher the population the larger the absolute size of the idiot population.

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