"What I never do is set the destination in the SatNav and let it take me by whatever route it selects, a recipe for disaster IMHE."
Agree!!!
What a disaster that can be!
A couple of weeks a go we were in Devon - driving from Plymouth to Ashburton - dead easy.
Or so you would think!
We had to get across Plymouth and so used the TomTom - we ended up in the middle of nowhere down a white - with traffic coming the other way ( clearly also guided by TT!!)