Posted on 11/24/2016 3:41:43 PM PST by bananaman22
This week almost 50 million Americans will take planes, trains, automobiles (and even boats) to travel miles from home for Thanksgiving festivities according to AAA. The auto club sees more than a million extra travelers leaving home this year between now and the end of the month.
Thanksgiving is traditionally of as a time for turkey and dinner with family, but given these statistics perhaps it ought to be thought of as a time for travel. After all, the first Thanksgiving was really about travel as well with Europeans having just finished the perilous journey across thousands of miles of ocean in wooden boats.
So echoing far too many Charlie Brown holiday specials, what is the true meaning of Thanksgiving – turkey or travel? Well, setting aside the philosophy we can answer that question based on cash spent by families around the holiday. Do families spend more on turkey or gasoline for the holiday?
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Staying at home, no visitor, being vegetarian of course no Turkey.
Is this supposed to be some sort of problem that autonomous vehicles can solve? /s
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