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LA Councilman Asks City Attorney To 'Review Possible Legal Action' Against Waze (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Yet another Los Angeles city councilman has taken Waze to task for creating "dangerous conditions" in his district, and the politician is now "asking the City to review possible legal action." "Waze has upended our City's traffic plans, residential neighborhoods, and public safety for far too long," LA City Councilman David Ryu said in a statement released Wednesday. "Their responses have been inadequate and their solutions, non-existent. They say the crises of congestion they cause is the price for innovation -- I say that's a false choice." In a new letter sent to the City Attorney's Office, Ryu formally asked Los Angeles' top attorney to examine Waze's behavior. While Ryu said he supported "advances in technology," he decried Waze and its parent company, Google, for refusing "any responsibility for the traffic problems their app creates or the concerns of residents and City officials."
The wazers drive through my neighborhood too and I DO care. If I try to drive to work I canâ(TM)t get out of my driveway and Iâ(TM)ve already been rear ended twice by wazers whose eyes and attention was on their phones in addition to that they are in an uncontrollable rage because the traffic on my narrow street is barely moving due to the huge number of other wazers clogging it up.
If I chose to walk to work I risk my life because wazers are in no mood to stop at stop signs or red lights, and are simply not interested in not running down pedestrians.