AAA estimates that more than 55 million people will be traveling on Thanksgiving. To put that into perspective: that's a lot of people.
Most of those trips will involve travelers being in a car at some point, which means being stuck in traffic. Unless we trust our handy GPS apps to expertly direct us through back streets, sketchy neighbors and dirt paths that maybe aren't really roads, to shave off a few minutes of our trip. Or lead us to even more congestion.