Random Horrible Accidents and Blunders Caused by Google Maps (18 items)

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  (#13) Google Maps Gives Hitler His Due

  Well this is embarrassing. In 2014, Google Maps accepted an edit to rename Theoder-Heuss Square in Berlin to “Adolf Hitler Platz.” The Google employee that okayed the edit didn't just accept the title as a nickname, he made it the actual name of the park. Obviously that didn't sit well with the German public, who don't whitewash their tarnished past, but would rather not be needlessly identified with Nazis either.
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  (#16) Self Driving Car Gets Into Accident

  It had to happen at some point. In 2016 one of Google's self-driving, 3D-mapping cars smacked into a public bus moving at about 2 mph.Nothing was damaged, except Google's pride. 
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  (#18) Google Car Causes Crash

  In 2014, a Google Street View driver in Arkansas went the wrong way down a one way street, then he did a U-Turn and side swiped another car. The other motorist received minor injuries and said, "Something better come out of Google's pocket for this." Who thinks the Google driver was using Maps when he crashed?
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  (#2) Driver Follows Directions Straight Off a Cliff

  According to police in Indiana, a driver was following his GPS too closely when he plunged his car off an abandoned bridge into a ravine, killing his wife. A representative for the Sheriff's Department said "The Cline Avenue bridge is marked with numerous barricades including orange barrels and cones, large wood signs stating ROAD CLOSED with orange striped markings. There are concrete barricades across the road to further indicate the road is closed." This sounds like the plot of a film noir, in which the man in question gets rid of his wife by staging an almost preposterous accident, but sadly the incident, apparently, is what it is—the man was simply watching the GPS monitor and not the road. 
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  (#6) Google Maps Sends Mt. Rushmore Seeking Tourists the Wrong Way

  Since 2010, roadtripping tourists who are looking to snap a pic of their favorite national monument have been getting directed to "Mount Rushmore, South Dakota" rather than the national monument. This case of "mistaken identity" has become so commonplace that a woman who runs a camp in Mount Rushmore has put up a sign that says, "Your GPS is WRONG. This is NOT Mt. Rushmore."
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  (#12) Google Maps Loses Balboa Park

  Balboa Park in San Diego isn't the easiest place to find, and this is especially true if you try to find it with Google Maps. If you search for the park, you're sent directly to a series of random canyons. Maybe someone should at least put some slides in the canyon.

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