With the arrival of every new technology, also comes a variety of laws. A woman named Lauren Rosenberg was using her Google Maps on her BlackBerry to get walking directions but she asserts she was misinformed and went to a busy highway and as a result hit by a car.

The damages of her car costs $100,000, because of which she litigated Google and her car driver Patrick Harwood. Usually, when the Walking Directions feature is used at Google Maps, a caution message shows letting users know about the beta status of the feature and the potential of routes missing pedestrian paths.

But this feature is just limited to the web version of Google Maps and hasn’t made it yet to the iPhone/BlackBerry version. Deer Valley Drive, also known as Utah State Route 224, was one such route which follows Google’s commands to brave it on foot, Rosenberg was hit by a car and is now suing the company for $US100,000. She possibly figures it is a rational sum, considering that Google’s worth $US1 with a hundred zeroes after it.

This is another example where applicant ended up depending on superficial guidance rather than using her common sense. Would she have sued the pedestrian or gas station attendant, if they had provided the bad directions to her?