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Wonderful tools but they do have their quirks.
I too had a Paris experience. (Of all places Paris is where you REALLY need them)
Emerging from a tunnel in the middle of 5 lanes of solid traffic it blithely instructed me to carry out a U turn NOW.
It then put me on a toll motorway out of Paris, took me off at the first exit (about 10ks), then took me back about 5ks towards Paris to my destination.
Very expensive.
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When we had the Garmin 2610 - on a visit in 2004 to Germany to friends in the motorhome, it started to tell us to do a U turn in the middle of the autobahn....
We knew that was wrong, so we didn't listen and just got off at the next exit and found a garage and bought a larger sized map, as the one I had didn't give enough detail....
The Nuvi 350 we currently have, ALWAYS send us up the road from our house to the left of a triangle, why, we don't know, right is shorter to anywhere, and anyway if we did it in the motorhome we wouldn't be able to get through or even turn at the T-junction at the end of the road, as it is just too narrow.
Lots of incidents of trying to take us down narrow tracks to cut corners...why isn't quicker...maybe shorter, but we were set on faster....
Carol
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My TomTom doesn't know about the one way system in the tiny village of Mathry near Fishguard. It sent me past the correct turning and told me to take the no entry road.
Lots of non existent speed limits in Scotland and Wales.
Sent me up an unmade road to get to a village in Weardale I'd told it to go to, but funnily enough the unmade road was exactly where I needed to go to find the exact place I wanted. Spooky!
There are some errors in the CC site POI I downloaded from MHF, including sending me totally in the wrong direction to a CL in Evesham, but that was an error by the CC.
Cost me Ģ1.10 bridge toll today because it didn't tell me about the toll bridge on the A477 at Neyland.
But I wouldn't be without it as I would have got myself totally lost many times .
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and Charlie the dog, but he canīt read, write or use a computer!
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Beware the Severn Valley between Bridgenorth and Bewdley.You can finish up by the river being told to "take the ferry".The ferry being a few wooden planks roped together which pulls 4/5 foot passengers across,if its running at all,which is probably only weekends in the Summer.They did cover this in our local press,and somebody did send in a photo of an old Ford Popular being pulled across in the 1950s.
You then face a 25 mile detour to get to the other side with your vehicle,lots of people have been caught out,me included.
PS.If you do get caught,make sure its on the East side of the river,during opening hours.
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The first time I used my Navman 650 was on a trip to France in 2003. I was very nieve and trusted implicitly in the Sat Nav. North of Montpelier I missed the relevant turn and the back on track took me on a circuitous route through a chateau down through a narrow path across a field where grapes were being harvested. There was no way I could turn around so kept going only to be confronted by a group of bemused farmers gesticulating that I had taken a wrong turning.
Now I realise that a Sat Nav is an aid to navigation but not to be entirely substituted for a map.
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In Holland this year AutoRoute asked me to leave the motorway I knew we should be on and when I did, it then stopped working with us in a trading estate never to work again. We had to revert to using maps for the first time in years.
Ralph
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Villagers in Carmarthenshire say they fear restoration work is being damaged by drivers using satellite navigation.
Residents in Llangadog said trucks and lorries were smashing into buildings that have all ready had thousands of pounds spent on them.
One property, once thought to have been a toll house, has been hit three times.
The Townscape Heritage Initiative, which oversees the restoration work, said there was growing concern over the rise in traffic through the village.
Around Ģ1.5m is being spent restoring landmark properties in Llangadog and Llandovery.
The Townscape officer for Carmarthenshire Council, Roger Morgan, said Llangadog residents were convinced that satellite navigation was to blame for the damage.
"It's a very small narrow road and these large lorries are coming through the village and causing problems for everyone," said Mr Morgan.
There has been a tremendous increase in traffic
Roger Morgan, Townscape officer
An office used by an architectural consultant in the village has taken the brunt of the damage.
"Since the lime rendering has been applied to the front of the building it has been damaged at least three times," said Mr Morgan
'Mounting concern'
In August, the Vale of Glamorgan council became so concerned over lorries being sent along narrow roads near St Hilary it began trials of a sign warning drivers to ignore sat-nav directions.
In the same month, a Polish lorry driver became trapped for three hours at Ty Croes in Carmarthenshire after following sat-nav directions.
Roger Morgan said there was "mounting concern" in Llangadog at the number of heavy vehicles using routes to cross from the Black Mountain in the Brecon Beacons through the Llangadog area.
"There has been a tremendous increase in traffic and there's no reason for it to come over the Black Mountain unless they have been directed that way," he said.
"I think the thing is to stop them coming over the mountain by telling them not to uses the route from a sat nav point of view."
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