Real? I always wanted to design bumps in the road so that vibrations in your car would say something when you went over them...
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I always wanted to design bumps in the road so that vibrations in your car would say something when you went over them...
I can't find the reference now, but there was a story circulating a while ago that claimed they did this in Japan. There was a stretch of highway where speeding was particularly dangerous, and they cut grooves in the asphalt such that, if you drove the posted speed limit, it would play a recognizable melody. Too fast or too slow, and all you'd hear is noise.
Never heard any followup on whether the experiment was a success. Me, I'd probably be constantly speeding up and slowing down to see if I could play the highway like a giant keyboard.
Only in Japan............
here's a link to an article about the musical roads on gizmodo from last year