Fine. Do whatever.
The original poster asked about routes that were not AC or other designated routes. I have twenty years of touring experience. Six cross country trips - most of which were off-AC. And probably 60,000 miles of touring in North America - both east and west of the Mississippi. If you don't care to find traffic volume maps on line - then fine. Do whatever you wish. However, seeing as there are two cyclists deaths posted in this forum today, one would think that choosing a road with low traffic volume would be in a cyclist's best interests.
It's too bad you are unable to find the appropriate web pages for Kentucky AADT.
And given your tone, I really don't care to tell you where they are. Actually, in the east almost every US and state highway has high traffic volume - but there are excellent secondary roads (hint, hint). That's how AC routes the TransAm thru Kentucky and Virginia. However, if you are in Nevada, I would not want to be low on water coming into Coaldale, Warm Springs, or Currant. All of which are small black dots on the AAA map - and other maps, too.
Current technological tools are excellent, but should be viewed as tools. In the West, search and rescue teams are having to deal with more and more people whose GPS has failed and need rescue.
http://www.abc4.com/news/local/story...2-cd408e6a9afb
To quote:
“We have, like four GPS systems and all told us the same so we didn’t see that something is wrong,”
“We don't have water, we don't have food, we don't have nothing. We have ten kids and one of them is sick,”
Great.
And my taxes go to support the local search and rescue unit.
Everybody knows that websites copy other website info - GPS systems included.
And the information about West Virginia roads is increasingly downloaded by people in India.
Yet, given the internet - it is EXTREMELY easy to research a safe and relatively quiet route.
But if you don't care to do so, that is your option.