Intelligent vehicle navigation assistance

A method, comprising:

• generating a route based on a starting point of a vehicle and a user-inputted destination location, the route comprising a set of directions defined by location points, actions, and distance values;
• comparing the generated route to previously travelled routes stored in a memory;
• identifying, from the comparing, a segment of the generated route that is in common with a segment from at least one of the previously travelled routes;
• determining a frequency count indicating a number of instances that the segment of the generated route appears in the previously travelled routes;
• and
• upon determining that the frequency count exceeds a specified threshold value, muting output of audio-based directions through a speaker of the vehicle during traversal of the vehicle through the segment of the generated route.

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions executable by a computer processor to cause the computer processor to perform a method, comprising:

• generating a route based on a starting point of a vehicle and a user-inputted destination location, the route comprising a set of directions defined by location points, actions, and distance values;
• comparing the generated route to previously travelled routes stored in the memory;
• identifying, from the comparing, a segment of the generated route that is in common with a segment from at least one of the previously travelled routes;
• determining a frequency count indicating a number of instances that the segment of the generated route appears in the previously travelled routes;
• and
• upon determining that the frequency count exceeds a specified threshold value, muting output of audio-based directions through a speaker of the vehicle during traversal of the vehicle through the segment of the generated route.