I hate Garmin

When discussing satellite navigators it is realized that they are not god, and that you should not follow them religiously, one must also consult maps, guides and ask direction when lost. There are also times when sat nav’s should do what they are suppose to do, navigate. Our sat nav either being a special case, mentally handicap or just partially broken, has left us stranded more times than I can recall. We have begun to take pictures of when our sat nav takes us up abandoned roads, road blocks, dead ends, or into fields. I have discussed this with other groups that have different sat navs such as Tom Tom, and Ihave concluded that Garmin is Tom Toms mentally handicap cheaper brother, and is to be trusted about only as far as you could dropkick it, thus I hate garmin.

Apparently Italy does not have as many satellite connections as the rest of Europe, but it leads us astray constantly, recalculating every so often even if we are on strait roads and especially when we are in cities. Also rarely does it recognize one way streets which are a daily part of Italian driving. We should just hire an old Italian guy to sit in the front and he could most likely help us more. We feel it also takes us the least direct route possible, this is after playing with every function of the sat nav, to take it for us the best route via highways and direct routes. We have started having fun seeing how we can find the clearly smarter route, like stay on the highway instead of getting off the highway only to get right back on the same one 2km later after following a string of small dirt side roads next to the highway, frustrating. We have been lost in around every corner of Italy with the help of Garmin, we are not Italian drivers, we have adapted rather well in my opinion to tiny streets, no signs, one ways and a thousand roads with the same name, but all told we hate you Garmin, not enough to write an angry letter, but almost.