Can Google Be Held Liable For Man Who Died Following Google Maps Over A Collapsed Bridge?

Can Google Be Held Liable For Man Who Died Following Google Maps Over A Collapsed Bridge?

There’s a pretty well known scene from The Office, when Michael Scott (played by Steve Carrell) follows his GPS device’s instructions (incorrectly, obviously) and drives into a lake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOW_kPzY_JY The writer of that scene says the inspiration was a number of stories of people doing exactly that. In fact, in the earlier days of Techdirt,…