in terms of someone who has to time traffic once, he should be good.... except during rush hour.
I have to come back, too. 
playing the odds here
Vegas has you at 8:1 to survive
I SURVIVED
Traffic on the way there sucked ... the whole trip. Slow crawl around Chicago and through NW Indiana ... Indianaoplis sucked even worse ... Columbus was only bad for the last couple of miles into downtown. There was construction pretty much the entire way , and I wasn't able to use the cruise control for more than a couple of miles at a time.
The drive home was much better for some reason. Sailed through Indy unscathed and hit a few slow downs around Chicago, but no big delays. Worst traffic on the way home was actually Milwaukee, even though it was 3 in the afternoon.