GeriatricWanderer
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My Garmin works almost perfectly even here in rural France where "narrow lanes" are plentiful.
I'm thinking you use your Garmin like so many other drivers do who seem to think that every road on sat nav maps has been measured for width and your Garmin can see which road is narrow and which is not.
Here some D roads are very narrow and others are dual carriageways but all look the same on a map.
The reason your Garmin "took you" down narrow lanes is that you turned your steering wheel into that lane.
Sat navs are amazing bits of kit and I would not travel without one but:
They are aids to navigation to be used alongside a map and the driver's knowledge of which roads he's planning to travel.
Just a crib note of road numbers or towns, stuck on the dash board is all it takes.
Don't give up on them, they are like all tools - it takes some skill to get the best out of them.
I'm thinking you use your Garmin like so many other drivers do who seem to think that every road on sat nav maps has been measured for width and your Garmin can see which road is narrow and which is not.
Here some D roads are very narrow and others are dual carriageways but all look the same on a map.
The reason your Garmin "took you" down narrow lanes is that you turned your steering wheel into that lane.
Sat navs are amazing bits of kit and I would not travel without one but:
They are aids to navigation to be used alongside a map and the driver's knowledge of which roads he's planning to travel.
Just a crib note of road numbers or towns, stuck on the dash board is all it takes.
Don't give up on them, they are like all tools - it takes some skill to get the best out of them.