Made this mistake one time in LA on business. Blindly followed the directions.......straight into the hood. Car full of four white guys in shades and white shirts/ties. The technology said this was the quickest route, but was not recognizing there was a stop sign or light at every corner. Needless to say we were late for our appointment.
Wife and we’re coming across the country years ago. Got rerouted through Gary Indiana due to an accident on the interstate 90. Good news it was bumper to bumper traffic through a real shady section.
Wife was scared and zipped up the windows.... We were in a jeep with a soft top. I was laughing, then she got it.
You’ll have to do the hard work of rerouting yourself.
It is a good thing there are options.
I’m old school- I’ll look at the online map and pick my own route. And I very reluctantly get off the main highway in Detroit. South of 8 mile anyways.
CC
i had a bonfire of the vanities moment on a business trip to chicago ... we got off at the wrong exit, it was night and raining ... it became instantly obvious that we had majorly F-ed up: 90% of stored boarded up or protected with rebar security fronts, and ghetto denizens were congregating on every corner ... i told my coworker who was driving to roll up the windows, lock the doors, and under no circumstance automatically stop for any red lights until we encountered a major highway, and if a cop stopped us, we should count our lucky blessings ...