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Japan's Melody Roads Play Music as You Drive

Posted by samzenpus on from the someone-has-watched-stupid-human-tricks dept.

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."

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  1. Re:As in by Opportunist · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wasn't speeding, I was trying to skip the song.

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