[OSM-talk] Fw: Software goes on, brain goes off...
Nick Whitelegg
Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk
Wed Jun 2 14:37:29 BST 2010
Sorry, this was intended for the *list*, not Anthony. Damn mail client...
>She wasn't playing, she was walking to her destination. I can't tell
from the pictures whether it was her fault for following the route, her
fault for >walking on the wrong side of the road, her fault for not
staying close enough to the side of the road, the government's fault for
not banning >pedestrians, the government's fault for setting too high of a
speed limit, or the car driver's fault. From the aerials it does look as
though there was >enough room on at least one side of the road to walk (it
wasn't a paved sidewalk, but whatever).
Well it's either her fault (for not being careful enough) or the driver's
fault (for not being careful enough). It certainly isn't Google's, in any
shape or form. Time this sort of ridiculous litigiousness is stopped
before it completely restricts people's freedom to do anything remotely
creative.
Nick
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