Google Maps has decided to take shortcuts and truck drivers followed him without thinking: the result is a Galician village with cracks in the houses

The blind confidence in Google maps sometimes leads us to an error, literally it happens of lulled residents is the perfect example: the application has put the trucks on the road unauthorized for months

We trust Google Maps almost without hesitation. If he tells us to turn right, do it and if he recommends a connection, we take it. However, the map database can make mistakes and provide nominations that can involuntarily create problems for residents of a place. This is what happened in the municipality of Cervo (La Coruña), where Google Service is passing the traffic to a secondary road.

According to the newspaper La Voz de Galicia, Google Maps indicates drivers an alleged “shortcut” to reach a commercial park in Cuíña. The inconvenience is that this road is expressly prohibited for vehicles with more than 5.5 tons: it was built by the owners of adjacent ownership to obtain access from a national road. However, truck drivers, following the GPS indications, use it “with total impunity”.

The consequence

The situation has reached a critical point. Residents denounce the constant passage of “more than twelve meters” trucks that transport dangerous goods, wood or heavy machines on a narrow track without sidewalks, compromising the safety of pedestrians, cyclists and residents themselves.

The impact, by the way, goes further: they complain about the acoustic damage, since the traffic is less than 1.5 meters from the houses and some close buildings “are already starting to have cracks in their structure”.

The origin of the problem is double. On the one hand, there is Google Maps error ignoring …

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