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Great thinking! We’ll share with the team; they’re always interested in new feature ideas.
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I'm not really sure how much demand there is for this in other Countries than the Netherlands, where I live.
My friend can't drive in here "normal" car anymore, since she has epilepsy. She can however drive a "brommobiel". I can't find the correct english translation, but it's bassicly a Micro car that can only do 45km/h. A lot of disabled people drive these cars here.
In the Netherlands, with a Microcar like that, you have to drive on the road for cars, not the bycicle lane (so you can't use bycicle navigation), and not on Highways or "Autowegen" (where cars can do 100km/h).
Sounds relatively simple, but here's the catch...:
If there is a C9 roadsign (also called a C09 sometimes), saying there are no tractors and no mopeds allowed, you can't drive there. But if the sign just says no tractors (so mopeds allowed), you can.
My friend also is authistic and I wanted to help, plan a route, that by car is a 78km drive in about 50 minutes. That turned out to need 9 detours to get a 86km drive, driving straight trough Utrecht (a busy city). I had to use Google streetview to follow the entire route, to check if there was no C9 roadsign...
Apperently there are A LOT of people looking for Navigation for a "brommobiel", but it just doesn't exist...
To me, it sounds so easy to create the option. Make an option to select a "brommobiel" (microcar) as the mode of transportation. And then on the Map, make an option for a C9 roadsign. Then avoid all highways and C9 roadsigns.
It could and would be so enormously helpfull to a lot of people, that can use all the help they can get !