Offering the benefit of the doubt, I will assume at first take this post was some sort of tongue-in-cheek suggestion or meandering.
However, if not, I would only suggest that if anyone would trust their journey through ANY major metropolitan area soley to their Nav system without any forethought to the neighborhoods, then all bets are off.
Rent a copy of Grand Canyon (the movie, 1991) and take heed.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know which areas of LA to steer clear of (so to speak [
]) if you have been in So.Cal. for more than a week or so.
BTW, you might want to avoid South Central [dunce]
On the flip side, the tone of the post also connotes a disparaging view of other ethnic areas of the metropolis. To bring the point home (literally) You may already know that Cerritos is renowned for being one of the (if not thee most) ethnically diverse cities in the nation with barrios of its own and a crime rate higher than the national average. Lancaster, also has gang activity and a higher than norm crime rate including forcable rape, robbery, murder, assault, burglary, and yes - motor vehicle theft.
Just because these statistics may cause one to be cautious, doesn't warrant the type of "neighborhood profiling" you seem to advocate here IMO.
Not sure I'd want my hometown marked with <font color="blue">"a "gun" symbol or "ski-mask" or "skull'N'cross bones" symbol"</font id="blue"> - would you?
so much for property values [boink]
Anyhoo, take care in unknown locales, I doubt Infiniti or anyother provider of Navigation technology or software will jump on the 'ghetto zone' bandwagon no matter how nice or expensive the host vehicle is. Sometimes common sense prevails.
The insight of staying on the freeway is probably the most valuable assertion you offer.
Cheers.[8D]
A fellow So.Calian.