A family in India was driving according to Google Maps but unfortunately they plunged into a river and they almost lost their lives.
The incident happened at about 10:30 pm, a family of 4 in Kerala (India) drove a car according to the instructions of Google Maps. Because they didn’t know the way, what Google Maps said, they followed the same way. Then the direction that Google Maps pointed to made this family… plunge the car into the river. The car was then swept away by the water. The driver in the car at that time was a doctor named Soniya, his 3-month-old daughter, Soniya’s mother and a relative.
Fortunately, when the car was swept away about 300 meters, local people discovered it and came to help. They tied the car with ropes and pulled members of the other family ashore.
A witness named Sathyan K said that some people walking near the river saw the car drifting downstream. In that extremely dangerous situation, fortunately the family in the car was saved in time. Because at that time, the front part of the car began to sink, almost submerged in water. After getting ashore, the other family called their relatives to come pick them up.
The Kottayam Police Department confirmed the incident. Again, they remind that the directions on Google Maps are not always 100% accurate and that if you follow them without looking, you can get into a lot of trouble. Not everyone is unlucky enough to fall into the river while following Google Maps, but sometimes people also come across situations where they laugh and cry. For example, last year, a man in Accra (Ghana) was driving his car as directed by Google Maps when he was driven into a remote, bushy wilderness area. Yet Google Maps still directed him to continue and told him to turn left, although turning left could only hit a mango tree, but there was no path at all.
Or there have been many cases of cars crashing into the river because of following Google Maps like the above incident.
Through this incident, I hope everyone doesn’t trust anyone (or app) completely!
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