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Why would the airport allow vehicles access to the runway? Why is this Apple's fault?

• wutbrodo 13y ago
  > Why is this Apple's fault? What? The airport deserves some of the blame for sure[1], but how is directing users onto an airport runway not put Apple at fault? If a maps app sends you driving up someone's driveway and through their property, would they not be at fault because it's physically accessible? In case you're a time traveler from the 90s, navigation apps generally are assumed to take you on legitimately navigable roadways, not physically accessible areas. [1]It's worth noting that the article mentions that the road to the runway was replete with warning signs: "They had to enter the airport property via a motion-activated gate, and afterwards there are many signs, lights and painted markings, first warning that aircraft may share the road and then that drivers should not be there at all. "They needed to drive over a mile with all this before reaching the runway. But the drivers disregarded all that because they were following the directions given on their iPhones." Presumably there was access to the runway for maintenance, etc. I agree that they should have had barricades et al up in the first place.
  • coin 13y ago
    If you drive off road and on to a runway, or drive up someone's driveway and through the property because a navigation app said so, then you shouldn't be driving at all. A driver is responsible for their driving actions regardless of what a map app tells them.
    • coherentpony 13y ago
      It is the driver's fault for driving across a runway and not using an ounce of common sense. That said, there's clearly a bug in Apple's Maps app here, too.