Facebook / Meta is one of the few data hoarding companies that doesn’t have “full control” of how their products are consumed / used and how much data gets collected in which way. Apple has the Mac, TV, Watch, and iPhone platforms. Google has the Pixels, Android, and Nests, Amazon has Kindles, Fire, Alexa devices, and so on.

Facebook doesn’t have any of these. The best they can do today is being a parasitic add-on to a platform they have no total control over like “the others” do.

Making their own hardware is a key element, not a burden. But they’re still treating it like the latter. If the Metaverse would already have been the New Thing ™, they’d have been the quasi-dominators of that territory because they’re pioneering the hard- and software. But along came AI which doesn’t need it’s own hardware platform, and still nobody wants to live in the Metaverse.

The family might as well sue the local medium that failed seeing the incident in their crystal ball.

There has never been a guarantee for a map to be absolutely precise and correct. Just because maps today are digital and get updated automatically - or are even something like “live” - does not mean that there can’t be any inaccuracies.

And that’s the reason one never relies on a map alone, but uses it as a guide.

I’ve seen road signs that were simply wrong. Always use a combination of informational input and always be aware of possible flaws.

I once approached a red light and the satnav commanded me to “go straight”. I almost did so, because a robot voice told me to do it. Would it have been the map’s fault because it didn’t know the traffic light was red? No, it would’ve been me, because I didn’t pay **enough ** attention for a moment, following a command blindly. Drivers have to be aware of their surroundings all the time.

Here in this case there should have been a road block and hazard signs in front of it.

This all reminds me of the case where some people sued a weather app because it didn’t warn them of bad weather and they completely relied on a single source of information.

I wanted to watch the Clarkson-Hammond-May “Top Gear”. Only on BBC iPlayer. Only in the UK.

The roundabout 22 series’ and specials simply do not exist outside of that. What are you supposed to do? I would have paid the BBC, but they even discourage the use of VPN’s themselves.