This puts us on wrong road

Sir, – My niece recently failed her driving test for misuse of the SatNav. Apparently, using the SatNav is a new thing that has been added in to the driving test curriculum.

She heard the SatNav say when approaching a roundabout that it was the third exit.

My niece then changed lane, safely, to the outside lane in preparation for a righthand turn.

It turns out that the third exit was actually straight ahead so she had to make a manoeuvre back to the inside lane to take the correct exit.

This manoeuvre was deemed unsafe and therefore she failed.

My problem is that because she was concentrating on the SatNav she was not fully concentrated on the outside world.

Had she just had her eyes looking outside the vehicle and followed the road signs, she would have been fine.

Are we now training our young, inexperienced drivers to concentrate more on the SatNav than what is actually happening outside the vehicle?

This really frightens me, as I can see a lot of accidents, possibly someone running into my car, because they were concentrating on looking at the SatNav and not the actual situation on the road.

Surely the SatNav is just an aid and not something to be studied while driving. Les Horribine. 103 Kinghorne Street, Arbroath.

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