I got caught in 2009 for contravening a red traffic light, thankfully the police didn't pursue the matter further.
That was enough for me to avoid doing that again.
Fast forward to 2024 I came across van life! I wanted to very much live that kind of lifestyle.
In my mind's eye I'm reminded of Johnny English where the camera pans out of London and you just seem camera flashes and I thought, "That's about right."
I get anxiety about driving about contravening other rules. So I would spend 10 - 20 minutes at least that's what it felt like trying to plot my own routes to the various destinations avoiding mostly red traffic light cameras
The sat navs we have now don't really avoid hazards they alert you to them. They want to broaden appeal internationally and not everywhere has the same regulations specifically France and Germany where it's illegal to alert the driver to cameras for example.
I decided I would learn programming, this seemed very slow because I just had too many ideas then like a blinding, bright light appeared and what sounded like angels singing Handel's Messiah: vibecoding was my introduction to all things coding!
So I began building a sat nav this sat nav is a second/final attempt at trying to route around cameras, struggled for ages and then came Claude Opus 4.6 that helped to solve the problem. I had finally found a way to route around obstacles.
So VibeVoyager was born. My gift to all of you who want to reduce anxiety, want a slightly more peaceful journey to your destination, to keep your licence clean a little longer until you build more confidence in a more beginner friendly environment.
The idea behind VibeVoyager is to make you a safer driver and there are features along with "optimised routes" that have been included such as built in dash cam, a GPS Speedo, speed limit indicator (which is in beta testing) which warns you vocally by how much you're speeding according to GPS Speedo, I remember adding a chime to that too, it alerts you vocally and textually about cameras if they cannot to be avoided, gives a possible journey cost including any CAZ costs, trying to add vocal reporting so you don't touch your phone during the journey otherwise you will have to report anything after you reach your destination. Check it out explore it! Always follow the rules of the road and your training!