On the road trip of the future, you travel with John Muir, the scenery is unreal and the kids fight over who gets to sit

Wave goodbye to the road trip as we know it. The future, which has arrived faster than we imagined, will be filled with self-driving cars that have visuals to enhance or replace the scenery and maybe even let us travel with people who have been dead for decades. What Car & Driver calls'brainless driving" is "closing in on us like a meteorite." Safety -- the cars' "potential to avoid accidents'' -- is driving this push, the magazine said. "Sadly, we are a nation of mediocre drivers," the magazine said, "distracted on our daily journeys by dining, child rearing, makeup applying, and incessant texting…. "Our driving errors cause crashes, injuries, and fatalities." The concern for your welfare pays other dividends. Car companies may have set out to enhance our safety, but in the process, they may just make the already awesome road trip even better. Uber and Google's Waymo, both working on autonomous car projects, have put the pedal to the self-driving metal, said futurist Faith Popcorn, ...