What kind of civil authority doesn't block the entrance of a bridge that's under (re)construction?

Expecting Google to keep abreast of worldwide road damage is a bit of a stretch.

This article was flagged because it makes Google look bad? (And a comment about hoping for India to develop their own alternative because of incentives was deleted after being down-voted to negative numbers.) Seriously when are people going to wake up to their biases here?

I don't think Google is to blame here. The local authority is for not blocking that road.

people rush through mountain roads as if the road continued after the curve. I drive through the mountains as if a goat was ambushing me at the turn of the curve.

Poor drivers and poor city signs are not limited to India.

Near where I live in California is a pedestrian path that is paved with asphalt. It is definitely not a street. Every few months someone like an Uber driver will misunderstand their directions and drive down it at about 30 mph, putting pedestrians at risk. I've sent emails to the city, but they seem to ignore it.

I don't know India. But I can confirm that google maps in Mexico and Central America hallucinates roads that aren’t there, sends you into restricted areas, and will happily send you down the craziest ungraded road that a lifted Jeep would struggle with. You never just follow it blindly.

There's an Ars Technica article titled Death by GPS, from 2016: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/05/death-by-gps/

Fascinating, but quite sad.

It's my sincere hope that India one day can drop the dependence on Google maps for a local alternative. Google has little incentive to get this right there, as they can really only monetize the product in cities.

This issue may be amplified by the heavy seasonal pollution which reduces visibility substantially

I used to do a great deal of local mapwork. Google Maps tends to not do rural areas as well as urban or suburban areas, usually missing the existence of Road A and then assigning the name of Road A to Road B, that kind of thing.

The naive approach is to expect a Single Source of Truth for roads, address points, and the like, but this turns out not to be true. The road network and address points are usually done on a per-county basis, each with its own standards (and boundaries), and gods help you if you expect that a road in County A that proceeds to County B to "line up" if you import data from each county. Sometimes, parcels are separate. Oh, and they'll use different projections and fields and whatnot.

Meanwhile, the Department of Transportation for my state had its own road network: fewer fields, often skipping the tiny roads entirely, irregularly updated.

This doesn't even begin to cover how bad the plats of a new neighborhood are versus reality, how infrequently updated and checked data is, height and weight limits for stretches of bridge and so forth.

Does India have less rigorous people in charge?

Remember: Eyes on the road.