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04/6/2024 at 1:54pm
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Pal of mine was raving over Waze mobile phone app a couple of years back, so thought I'd try it (not for caravan, just normal car navigation), and used it on localish trips a few times, mostly with the traffic flow info in mind, knew my way well enough anyway, but followed the sat nav routes out of curiosity – what DIABOLICAL routes it took! They may have technically been quicker (not convinced!), or shorter (got to have been marginal!), but they ducked and dived down all the back roads (London Streets!) never going in a straight line for more than hundreds of yards before turning onto another street – plain HARD WORK, an exhausting way to drive! The fuel consumption must have been truly grim, as all accelerating, braking, and gear changes! The wear and tear on tyres, brakes and suspension didn't bear thinking about! Certainly NOT a 'Green' route planner! Ditched that sat nav app pretty quickly, thankfully never known any other sat nav pick such routes!
You REALLY do have to engage brain first, and use some common sense, not just blindly follow these often really DAFT devices! Even my 'good' TomTom, and a couple of 'good' phone apps, I find it beneficial to force a preferred route on them with a few well chosen 'Vias/Way points' on many occasions – which gets us right back to using a map and planning the route yourself BEFORE using the sat nav as little more than an aid memoir! I find their greatest value is traffic info, and getting you out of the doo doo when an unexpected road closure punts you down unfamiliar roads into unknown places.
I too have certainly plugged a destination into a sat nav, only to find it's NOT the actual destination I want, but a 'clone' in another part of the country, or even a DIFFERENT country (always found the mention of ferries and resuming driving next day to be a clue!)! You have to have your wits about you using these things! - not too difficult to see how the mentally challenged follow routes off cliffs and through duck ponds!
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