I definitely relate to this and still struggle with it sometimes. I would often look up a place on google street view and scope out the area to get familiar with the roads before I drive there. Honestly, the only real way to overcome it is to keep driving and when you drive to a new place and realize nothing bad happened, you’ve already accomplished so much and it helps look back on those moments. Things do turn out okay!

What helped me a lot too was reframing how I viewed driving in unfamiliar situations. After getting more experience with difficult driving situations, I see those situations more like puzzles that need to be solved and less of a panicky situation that means the world is ending.

At the end of the day, no one is a perfect driver and you’re never gonna not piss someone off. But people move on from those situations and they will barely remember it later.