This visual essay in "The Photographer's Frame" explores how Americans’ love affair with road trips made a marriage of national park scenic landscapes and automobiles nearly inevitable—and has helped, literally, drive climate change.

Convolutional highways are deep networks based on multiple stacked convolutional layers for feature preprocessing. We introduce an evolutionary algorithm (EA) for optimization of the structure and hyperparameters of convolutional highways and demonstrate the potential of this optimization setting on the well-known MNIST data set. The (1+1)-EA employs Rechenberg’s mutation rate control and a nic...