My daughter is a fairly new driver, and there is an intersection in her college town that is so bad it gets meme’d about being dangerous and causing anxiety in drivers.
She said every time she uses navigation and it wants to take her through there she starts to panic. So I am wondering if it is possible to create a rule in maps and add a no go zone there for her.
A short term suggestion, not exactly automatically avoiding it, but adding a “via” waypoint, or a “stop”? So instead of A - B always going through the intersection, set a journey of A - B - C where B is a point you can go through which avoids the intersection
Could probably have this setup in a shortcut so she can just click one button and itll automatically set this up
This is the best way.
If your daughter gets anxiety or panic attacks while driving, I suggest her to get professional help/therapy instead of avoiding particular (but common) traffic situations. I’m talking from experience. Fostering the anxiety now by not acknowledging it, might end up with an ever longer road to recovery for self confidence later on.
I’m divided on this. I love driving and always volunteer to be the one who drives; I’ve never been in an accident and I can retain some control of the vehicle on snow/ice in tricky areas.
But I too avoid some intersections, either because I’d rather take a slower route where my car keeps moving, its not very safe, or I don’t want to make a left turn at a two way stop crossing six lanes of traffic (I’d rather go around the block to a stop light and turn left there).
I suppose it all depends on context.
I hear your argument, and I agree to it. For new drivers it should also become common sense to plan your route save and thus comfortable.
But OP specifically mentioned his daughter experiences anxiety. That pushes it into a different category if it was not meant metaphorically.
Waze has a toggle called ‘avoid difficult intersections’.
Additionally, Waze has crowd sourced real time traffic hazard reporting (every Waze user can contribute).
Sounds like your daughter needs to actually learn how to drive. I made scary mistakes when I was learning but the key was I learned to not make those mistakes. Take the phone out of the equation and let her learn the roads where she’s driving. Teach her to pay attention to her mirrors, what other drivers are doing (and not doing) and anticipate moronic behavior from other motorists.
