Changing Your Active Route; Adding A Location To Your Route; Shaping Your Route; Taking A Detour - Garmin DriveAssist 51 Owner's Manual

• On your Garmin DriveAssist device, select Apps > Last Spot
> Go!.
• On your watch, start the Watch Link app, select Find My Car,
and walk toward your parking spot.
The destination indicator
destination relative to the direction you are moving
the destination indicator appears at the top of the circle, you
are heading towards your destination. The remaining
distance to your destination
progress bar shows your progress towards your
destination.

Changing Your Active Route

Adding a location to your route

Before you can add a location to your route, you must be
navigating a route (Starting a route, page
You can add locations to the middle or end of your route. For
example, you can add a petrol station as the next destination in
your route.
TIP: to create complex routes with multiple destinations or
scheduled stops, you can use the trip planner to plan, schedule,
and save a trip (Planning a trip, page
1
From the map, select
2
Search for a location (Finding and saving locations,
page 9).
3
Select a location.
4
Select Go!.
5
Select an option:
• To add the location as the next destination in your route,
select Add As Next Stop.
• To add the location to the end of your route, select Add
As Last Stop.
• To add the location and edit the order of destinations in
your route, select Add to Active Route.
The device re-calculates the route to include the added location
and guides you to the destinations in order.

Shaping your route

Before you can shape your route, you must start a route
(Starting a route, page 6).
You can manually shape your route to change its course. This
allows you to direct the route to use a certain road or go through
a certain area without adding a destination to the route.
1
Touch anywhere on the map.
2 Select .
The device enters route shaping mode.
3
Select a location on the map.
TIP: you can select to zoom in on the map and select a
more precise location.
The device recalculates the route to travel through the
selected location.
4
If necessary, select an option:
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shows the direction of your
appears below the circle. The
6).
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> Where To?.
• To add more shaping points to the route, select additional
locations on the map.
• To remove a shaping point, select
5 When you are finished shaping the route, select Go!.

Taking a Detour

You can take a detour for a specified distance along your route
or detour around specific roads. This is useful if you encounter
construction zones, closed roads or poor road conditions.
1 From the map, select
TIP: if the Change Route tool is not in the map tools menu,
you can add it
2
Select an option:
• To re-route for a specific distance, select Detour by
Distance.
. When
• To detour around a specific road on the route, select
Detour by Road.
• To find a new route, select Detour.

Changing the route calculation mode

1
Select Settings > Navigation > Calculation Mode.
2
Select an option:
• Select Faster Time to calculate routes that are faster to
drive but can be longer in distance.
• Select Off Road to calculate point-to-point routes (without
roads).
• Select Shorter Distance to calculate routes that are
shorter in distance but can take more time to drive.

Stopping the route

From the map, select

Using Suggested Routes

Before you can use this feature, you must save at least one
location and enable the travel history feature
Privacy Settings, page
Using the myTrends
destination based on your travel history, the day of the week and
the time of day. After you have driven to a favourite location
several times, the location may appear in the navigation bar on
the map, along with the estimated time of travel and traffic
information.
Select the navigation bar to view a suggested route to the
location.

Avoiding Delays, Tolls and Areas

Avoiding traffic delays on your route

Before you can avoid traffic delays, you must be receiving traffic
information (Receiving Traffic Data Using Smartphone Link,
page 17).
By default, the device optimises your route to avoid traffic delays
automatically. If you have disabled this option in the traffic
settings (Traffic Settings, page
traffic delays manually.
1
While navigating a route, select
2 Select Alternative Route, if available.
3
Select Go!.

Avoiding toll roads

Your device can avoid routing you through areas that require
tolls, such as toll roads, toll bridges, or congestion areas. The
device may still include a toll area in your route if no other
reasonable routes are available.
1
Select Settings > Navigation.
.
> Change Route.
(Enabling map tools, page
> Stop.
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feature, your device predicts your
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22), you can view and avoid
> Traffic.
Navigating to your destination
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