Random Horrible Accidents and Blunders Caused by Google Maps (18 items)

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  (#6) Google Maps Sends Mt. Rushmore Seeking Tourists the Wrong Way

  Since 2010, roadtripping tourists who are looking to snap a pic of their favorite national monument have been getting directed to "Mount Rushmore, South Dakota" rather than the national monument. This case of "mistaken identity" has become so commonplace that a woman who runs a camp in Mount Rushmore has put up a sign that says, "Your GPS is WRONG. This is NOT Mt. Rushmore."
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  (#13) Google Maps Gives Hitler His Due

  Well this is embarrassing. In 2014, Google Maps accepted an edit to rename Theoder-Heuss Square in Berlin to “Adolf Hitler Platz.” The Google employee that okayed the edit didn't just accept the title as a nickname, he made it the actual name of the park. Obviously that didn't sit well with the German public, who don't whitewash their tarnished past, but would rather not be needlessly identified with Nazis either.
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  (#7) Scottish Island Disappears

  As if the Scottish weren't maligned enough, in 2013 Google made one of the country's islands straight-up disappear. A representative for Google said, "We hope to have the map of Jura back to normal as soon as possible." OK!
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  (#14) Hacker Uses Google Maps to Spy on Spies

  In 2014, a hacker exploited Google's rather laissez-faire attitude towards edits to record phone calls made by regular people to both the FBI and the Secret Service. ValleyWag writer Nitasha Tiku explains: "The callers that Seely recorded thought they were speaking directly to the government agencies because they looked up the telephone number on Google Maps. What they didn't know was that Seely had set up fake listings for the San Francisco FBI office and Secret Service in Washington, D.C., displaying numbers that went to a phone account he set up rather than the federal offices. After Seely's numbers received the calls, they were seamlessly forwarded to the real offices the callers were trying to reach, only now the audio of their conversations with real federal agents was being captured by Seely." The Secret Service caught on to him, although once they interrogated him, they heralded to him as a "hero." 
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  (#18) Google Car Causes Crash

  In 2014, a Google Street View driver in Arkansas went the wrong way down a one way street, then he did a U-Turn and side swiped another car. The other motorist received minor injuries and said, "Something better come out of Google's pocket for this." Who thinks the Google driver was using Maps when he crashed?
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  (#15) Google Maps Blows the Lid Off India's Secret Military Bases

  In their undying desire to take pictures of the entire world, Google managed to make some of India's defense installations, nuclear power plants, and other sensitive locations visible with nothing more than a few keystrokes.  A spokesperson for the Indian government said that the visibility "adversely undermines'' the country's security.  

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