Personal Responsibility?

This past week, a woman sued Google for providing "dangerous" walking directions via Google Maps. (See the WSJ Law Blog article here). Apparently she was led onto a busy highway and then hit by a car.

Aside from the ridiculous aspects of the actual legal claim, there seems to be a bigger problem here. Are we so dependent on technology that all common sense goes out the window? If I saw that I was about to walk onto a *highway* I would turn around and get new directions. People have a mistaken impression that technology is perfect and can help them accomplish everything. Relying on this false assumption has caused too many of us to use our brains less, resulting in situations like this one.