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Worldwalker, I agree about roads being boring and lulling the brain into a state of somnolence. Living in western Texas I have driven many miles of open road, with nothing but a few mesquite trees, oil wells, and cattle for a hundred miles at a stretch. Some of these places are so far in the boondocks that you can't get any radio signal. It is very easy to start falling asleep, or just lose track of where you are because your brain tunes out.
I would much rather have someone listening to an audio book or the radio than going into a road trance.
And sometimes things just do "come out from nowhere". I was once hit by a deer (it hit me, not the other way around) that darted in front of another car and hit me in the side. I was busy watching the car I was passing, watching the car in the left lane coming at me (there were two lanes on my side and one on the other, I never crossed the yellow) and making the sure the truck behind me didn't run over me. There was ONE little scrub oak that it must have been behind. If I had been in a road trance it would have scared me even more and I might have swerved, causing a three or four car accident.
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