The Civic Project: Musical Road 5

[nightterror007]

2:16 I was expecting jingle bells lol.

[ravinago]

wat happens when i drive on the wrong side of the road im guessing ill hear it backwards

[Ramathorn2007]

AWESOME!!!!



[Hikikomori013]

It's pretty cool. The engineers in Japan tune the roads a little better, but for a first road they didn't do too bad.

[Green0410]

This is a really inspirational creative project. How did this project come about?

[angelo93535]

Lancaster, California at on Ave G

[lhndez]

I remember this like yesterday since I lived by the road where they created this musical road. Lancaster California on 60th and J ave.

[gnomeater]

hey honda.. why are you tone deaf?

[CardBoardPimp420]

i would be so pissed if i had to hear that everyday going to and coming home from work

[jbrun009]

I wanna get a bunch of cars and race across it in a line.

Next on the agenda, Night Fever!

[rofLopolous]

erm, i love honda's but the william tell cover sounds flat, at best :D but cool.

[jbrun009]

drive faster!

[ihshiodo]

I'm saying, I might actually go the speed limit if the road played me music!

[lytwielder]

im convinced. i want a civic!

[Nouwaya]

i wanna drive in reverse... i wonder if it sounds the same... hehe

[linguamortua]

it probably says something like, "love the devil" or something of the sort.

[imgoingtobarf]

lol did he say thats the same cop

[SnowflakeOfTheWuTang]

what is the name of the song, its driving me crazy?

[7EchoProductions]

William Tell Overture

[iivolcomii]

its not even loud enough to alter your hearing.

yes its real its in lancaster california (middle of nowhere) on Ave G and 30th west...

it sounds best when your going 65, 70

[levi989]

pssh, it isn't in the middle of nowhere. I'm guessing you have only been on the outskirts of the town, where this road is located.

[iivolcomii]

uhh to bad any type of vehicle can make to road "sing" not just new hondas

and its not even loud enough to alter your hearing.

yes its real its in lancaster california (middle of nowhere) on Ave G and 39th west...

[bier9999]

Civic's own commercial proves to be it's own demise yet again. Who is going to buy a car that emphasizes road noise? I bet those teenagers in the commercial will go deaf either from the excessive road noise or turning the music volume way up to drown out the noise.

[ayahoo16]

can't you just enjoy creativity.

[patrickt777]

its just creativity douchebag.

[creepyvannila]

Seriously, I want a frikken Honda just cuz of this commercial. It's so AWESOME!!!! YAY!!! I wonder if its real. I like it when they went slower lol

[suninthyhands532]

in the commercial they go faster so I say 60MPH?? what do you guys think?

[DieselDemon18]

i say top the civic out then roll over it lol

[CapperPell]

My first Singing Road was in 1983 on Knollwood Avenue in Kalamazoo, Michigan. I worked out the sound of a siren (keeping it simple to prevent the front-wheel/back-wheel phase shift from messing it up). I wanted to keep it impermanent and quick, so instead of carving grooves, I found big rolls of road marking tape. A few tests got it right, then I spent a couple of very late night hours laying it out. Worked like a charm. Number 2 was stereo, siren left and drumbeat on right. Fun.

[brendanle99]

How does it Work?

[ConceptVBS]

different sized grooves in the road makes different pitch. changing the arrangements and depth of these grooves make the different sounds.

[zak32645]

its the length of the groove that makes the pitch, not the depth.

[CottonBelter]

width?

[Jonin707]

True. Depth affects the volume.

[mxy2kaxl]

you know those lines they add in the side of the road to keep people up or let them know they driving out side of the road is the ssame just lines and emty

[iloveflyleaf2221]

civic hater!

[Seanime]

Brilliant! do more do more! I hope they do more and different songs, hope they hit Philly!

[rejectedwolf]

How does that work? I'm curious.

[gaypplreadthis]

people are mad because it doesn't sound exact but its tiny lines in the road not a keyboard lol

[KhmaiBodian559]

dont waste ur gas on it! the economy wont appretiate it

[xmmxsheba]

lmmfao we must stop mocking the econemy.. rofl sounds firmiliar...

[plasman1029]

omg, 12 times is alot!

[MUSICALCHIMP]

Wrong intervals.

[bensolo]

I think this was a failed project :|

[LordTharrion]

They should have made it so as you drove, the grooves sounded like Chuck Norris singing "Through the Eyes of a Ranger" lol!!!

[envisionelec]

Engineers can't even get the math right. Made in the USA - again.

[schladmingman]

Of course it doesn't sound right!

Sure... they clap and think they got it right....

They wanted to have the grooves play the "William Tell Overture" (theme to the Lone Ranger)... but they apparently never consulted someone who KNOWS how the tune goes. It's off in its intervals and its rhythm at the end. It's close enough for people with no musical ear to say, "Uh, the Lone Ranger?"

(sigh)... the blind leading the tone-deaf!

[DibbityDan]

It's actually so off that it makes me cringe when i hear it. It's like when someone gets a guitar for the first time and tries to play "Iron Man"... they might think they're doing wonderful things but everyone else just wants to kill them.

[jbeachey]

Exactly, schladmingman. They actually used sound editing software to "fix" the last two pitches in the commercial; you can tell when you compare the ending in the commercial with amateur videos of the musical road. Strangely enough, they neglected the rest of the melody. They probably thought the general public wouldn't notice as long as the beginning and end were ok. The error in intervals was probably a mathematical one in groove spacing, however, rather than a strictly musical one.

[schladmingman]

It's sounds like they fixed the last few notes in post-production; but the error in intervals probably goes back to the design phase when they planned out the grooves. Yes, the groove spacing is off... as this determines the pitch of each note.

[WKmonstermutt]

Lol, thats cool.

[lhndez]

I enjoy it the most because it was close to our home here in Lancaster, CA. Thanks Honda Civic, and yes I was one that went over it more than once. now they moved it to Ave " G " from Ave " K "

[Mario0401]

thats awesome!

[electricvelocity]

that was my idea! or at least i thought of it. That is so awesome, but I would have done the imperial march from star wars.

[DaylightRobberyCA]

Doesn't sound right at all. And I like how that guy is giving detailed instructions to the driver. All you have to do is drive the damn car, its not rocket science.

[trueloveisalie]

:)

thanks yall

this makes me smile

[shih80818]

civic

type-r

BEST!!!!

[cottonshit]

I like the girl with white top on 3:34 she's cute! Great creative people from Honda!

[seroyer2]

I would so want to drive at like 100 mph over that road. LOL

[LeviMan2001]

then it would actually sound right lol.

[syouyunokaori]

すごい！走るのが楽しくなるね！

[lhndez]

Wow! It will be fun to drive! translating the Japanese language. Thanks.

[KonaKoo]

That was so cool!

At 1:51-1:54 i could hear the "left your lights on" sound. (:

[9948845]

Superb idea! So nice...

[ZentaOlbaid]

Very creative!