Snapchat Sued For Facilitating 107 MPH Car Crash (patch.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday May 5, 2016 @05:30AM from the technology-facilitating-damage dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A Georgia couple is suing Snapchat, a popular instant messaging and photo sharing app, after a car accident last year seriously injured the husband, leaving him permanently brain damaged. According to media reports, Wentworth Maynard, the victim, was driving in a 55-mile-per-hour zone when 18-year-old Christal McGee crashed into him traveling at 107 miles per hour. McGee, according to lawsuits, was attempting to use Snapchat's "speed filter" -- a feature that overlays the speed one is traveling on a picture. "Snapchat's speed filter facilitated McGee's excessive speeding," reads the lawsuit. "McGee was motivated to drive at an excessive speed in order to obtain recognition through Snapchat by the means of a Snapchat 'trophy.'"

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Re:Frivolous lawsuit by Smidge204 · 2016-05-05 06:00 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I get an endorphin rush every time one of my insightful posts (like this one) goes to +5. Sometimes I post while driving. If I crash, should I be able to sue Slashdot?
If you could directly correlate posting to Slashdot with the risky behavior... by, say, basing mod points on how fast you were driving when you posted... then yes.
=Smidge=