Re: Nuvi 770 routes me 20 miles out, then tells me to take a U-turn!!!

I'm curious to know if once in the car and you drive to the road if it will
give you the same directions. Could be some quirk from your starting point
that does not compute correctly.

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Maybe it was a quirk. To answer another person's message, Yahoo maps
gave me the correct route. Once I got in the car and drove past the
PA Turnpike entrance (which I did NOT need to get on), then the nuvi
gave me the correct directions.

Now, I was at a hotel just south of the Turnpike, and my original
destination was about six miles north. Yesterday, I wanted to go to a
restaurant (in the POIs) SOUTH of my hotel, and yes, the nuvi wanted
me to get onto the PA Turnpike, drive the 20 miles east, then west,
etc. In this case, I simply started to drive south, and all was well.

Can anyone suggest a way to communicate effectively with Garmin about
this mistake?

        If your Nuvi does that then just todd to dumpster. But before you toss it
away you may want to ask yourself if your Nuvi tells you to make a U-Turn to
a route few blocks away or really 20 miles away.

        Cuz here, sometime on a over thousand mile trip my Nuvi tell me to make a
U-Turn, but mine doesn't mean to the destination over a thousand of miles
away, but a wrong turn to a route few blocks away.

It may be some quirk that sees the turnpike entrance and assumes it must be
taken. You could change settings for type of vehicle or fastest/shortest or
the like and try it. What scares me is that if you had no clue where the
destination was, you'd blindly follow the instructions. I still keep a
paper map.

I'm not sure if that is a Garmin or NavTec problem. There is a link, IIRC,
on the Garmin web site to report errors. I guess it depends on whether the
error is map created or in interpretation.

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Agreed about the paper map, or even Yahoo/Google maps. However, there
is still a HUGE value to having a GPS when you're driving on very
unfamiliar roads.

One day, driving back to my hotel, the nuvi routed me completely
differently than the route I used to get to my destination. Got to
see some farmhouses, silos, and fields of crops. Oh, did I mention
that the LOW GAS warning light came on?

So on balance a GPS is a great thing. On Balance.


I think I'll try to report that error.

-AH