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>I want it to pick one and shut up unless I’m about to miss the turn: “Turn right at the next light” “Are you going to turn or what?”

Easy solution here would be to have some feedback mechanism for the nav. Surprised it doesn't exist already. I miss what the nav says about half the time, because I'm paying attention to other things. But if i could say "ok, got it" or press a button that says "ok, got it" the first time she gives a new direction, that would shut up her reminders, that seems ideal.

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Also, I want to be able to specify areas I’m familiar with somehow. So instead of it telling me turn by turn how to leave my neighborhood, for example, it just says “leave the neighborhood going east”. Then it could say “you want to be going north on I-whatever, you’ll end up North of CITY.” And then it shuts up until I’ve gone past CITY on I-whatever.

This seems like such an easy win to me. Oh this person has driven the beginning of this route 500 times, just tell them to get on the interstate heading downtown.

Plus just turn the "turn in 200ft" to "turn in two blocks". None of this needs fancy sensors.

I always want this when I'm close to home. I know where I am once I'm within a mile or so of my house, shut the hell up and let me drive. (Usually, I just stop navigation once I'm on a familiar highway, but it would be nice if I didn't have to manage it.)

Similarly, I'd like to be able to say something like "get me to I-71 North" or similar and have it take me to the nearest exit for that direction.

This is an awesome idea.

Apple Maps does actually provide directions like "go through this traffic light" and "at the stop sign, turn left". It's significantly better than Google.

Google Maps does this too, using landmarks that are already on the map. They say "turn left at the Exxon" and "turn right after the pet store."

I always assume those are just paid placement (ads), not any more useful to me as a driver than "turn right at the next light".

It's the main reason I won't use Google Maps any longer.

That’s an amazing idea and simple! I miss directions all the time too.

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