It’s reported Google and Apple have agreed to amend their audio prompts after a double fatal crash appeared to have been caused by incorrect directions from a sat-nav.
The BBC reports that a coroner warned tech companies including TomTom, to a risk of future deaths after a woman drove the wrong way onto the A5 near Milton Keynes.
Sean Cummings, assistant coroner, said Tracey Haybittle, 58, and Amal Mohamed Ahmed, 38, both died in a head-on collision after Ms Ahmed appeared to have followed “audio directions from her sat-nav application”.
TomTom has already made changes to its verbal instructions. Apple and Google hoped changes to their audio prompts would provide clearer guidance.
The Coroner said that police attending the crash saw three other vehicles “perform exactly the same manoeuvre as Ms Ahmed and attempt to travel down the slip road in the wrong direction”.
National Highways has since erected signs to prevent motorists from accessing the slip road.
(File Picture – TomTom screenshot)
