One of the latest facepalm-worthy calamities involves that social media app SnapChat, which basically combines instant video messaging with Vine-like snippets. In SnapChat, users can overlay filters to make their snaps witty, artsy and cheesy, and there’s one that cleverly uses the accelerometer built into everyone’s smartphone, plus GPS, to read out how fast one’s traveling, say in a car as a passenger, not as the driver.
This specific speed overlay is what caused a couple’s daughter to crash while driving, according to the lawsuit filed with Spalding County, in Georgia.
The suit claims that SnapChat is at fault because their speed overlay apparently encouraged their daughter to drive 100 MPH, just so she can show her friends how fast she was going. She ended up cracking 100 alright, actually topping out at 107 MPH, before crashing.
But that’s not the best part.
She even SnapChats her self in the gurney, with the captions, “Lucky to be alive.” Damn straight she is, because Charles Darwin must’ve been at lunch at the time, thankfully to her benefit.
Really though, these people are allowed to contribute to the gene pool? If this doesn’t get thrown out, I have lost all hope for humanity.
– By: Chris Chin
Source: WECT-TV Local NBC Affiliate
Source: egmCarTech http://bit.ly/1Tk7CG0
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