Indian taxi crash blamed on Google Maps
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•Three Men Die After Google Maps Reportedly Told Them to Drive Over an Unfinished Bridge
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Three men in India were killed after their taxi was instructed to drive across an unfinished bridge by Google Maps .
The men were traveling from one city to another en route to a wedding when the car plunged over the bridge's edge.
A local official told journalists that the car had been navigating with Google Maps at the time of the crash.
A family member of one of the victims similarly blamed the U.S. company's web mapping platform for the deadly incident.
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