On Sep 25, 11:26 am, "warden [Andrew Leach - Maps API Guru]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It often appears to those on this side of the Atlantic that lawyers on > the other side assume people have no common sense whatever. > Unfortunately a side effect of that is that many lose what common > sense they had because they're protected from the consequences of not > having any.
Here's a little story, almost entirely off-topic: I'll start by saying that I truly love America and the "American Way" of doing things, much more than the European, and I really wish I could live there. Americans seem to be way more practical and have a "Nike" philosophy of "just do it", while Europeans try to analyze everything. So, while Europeans are thinking about it, Americans are getting all the patents. However, when it comes to so-called "safety" they can be really silly, and the situation seems reversed. First time I visited the US, I was driving around in my rental car, when suddenly all the traffic around me stopped. I couldn't see any traffic lights, or cops, or ambulances or anything out of the ordinary, so I just kept on driving. After the same occurance repeated itself a few times, in different towns, I realized that they were stopping because a school bus, on the opposite side of the street, was lit like a christmas tree, flashing all sorts of red and yellow lights, just because a kid was getting off the bus. Big event! The odds of the kid suddenly deciding to run into the traffic are like 1 in a million, and from the opposite side of the street probably 1 in 100 million, but still, everyone has to stop because some silly politicians think it makes a difference. I see the parallel with the driving directions warning. Even if Google said "Go play on the freeway", what are the odds of someone actually doing it? -- Marcelo - http://maps.forum.nu -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
