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Japan's Melody Roads Play Music as You Drive
Krishna Dagli writes "The road works by using grooves, which are cut at very specific intervals in the surface. Just as traveling over small speed bumps or road markings can emit a rumbling tone throughout a vehicle, the melody road uses the spaces between to create different notes."
If you drive up that road in reverse it says, "Paul is dead."
-Peter
But what if you dont like the song?
Change lanes.
"No officer, I wasn't driving dangerously, I was in shuffle mode".
Blank until
What is the motive for playing songs? Maybe the Japanese, with their radically different sense of aesthetics, will play songs. But Americans will have advertising:
rummmble...rumbble..Today's...screee...special...rummble...at..Wal-Mart...rummble...voice...suppression...rummble...tires!
While it looks like these were done just for fun, one idea I have heard is to place them only in the passing lane, at regular intervals. This would discorage people from staying in that lane any longer than they need to, else be forced to listen to "It's a Small World" at increasingly annoying pitch the faster they drive :)
Not yet. But your kids will be trying to sneak to Canada, I can guarantee you that
More people have snuck into the United States in the last thirty years than live in Canada, I can guarantee you that!
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Sir, do you realize you were traveling at over 300 bpm? I'm going to have to ticket you for driving at prestissimo speeds.
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Should be an interesting way to gauge your own speed. Besides using an odometer.
A lot of people find the speedometer easier to use than the odometer for determining their speed...
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I've thought of using the grooves along the road to make a menacing voice for years. 'Get your ass back on the road stupid!' or some such thing. I think it's more American than playing music.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
Boy: Daddy, why are we driving on gravel road?
Dad: I don't know, Watusabi. It was tar sealed road yesterday.
(500 metres later)
Boy: What's that sign say, Daddy?
Dad (slowing down and reading sign): "This melody road contains copyrighted music. Under the DMCA, and Japan's copyright treaty obligations, this road has been dug up to remove the infringing notes"
-- In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was UNSIGNED, and the main(){} was without form and void...
Personally, I like to use an outside observer and general relativity to monitor my speed. I simply have someone watch me drive, and if it seems as if time in my car has slowed down, and the car and I have increased in mass, they tell me and I slow down.
Oh, the road to my woman's house
only plays the blues.
You are welcome on my lawn.