It's not all the fault of Sat Navs.
Circa late 1980s, I used to spend my evenings in a pub by a mini roundabout. One of exits led through a housing estate to shortcut to the motorway, but you had to navigate through a physical width restriction, big bollardy things about 6 foot apart, 100 yds up the road. Within that 100yds parking spaces alternated, one side of the road then another, also as a deterrent to big vehicles.
The width restriction was clearly sign posted but even so, about once a week, the locals would notice a large articulated lorry heading up the road. We'd speculate how long it would take, usually a good half hour or more, before the driver got to the bollards and managed to reverse all the way back again, snaking between all the parked cars.
To their credit, they generally had unbelievably good reversing skills, long predating cameras and other driver assists.
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