Honda Musical Road

[JNNPC]

go 120 and see how it sounds lol

[theranter]

This brings up an interesting thought (to me anyways)... Why don't they actually use that on roads? Like rather than say, just a normal rumble strip when approaching a toll booth, it could actually be designed to say "Slow down" followed by "Toll ahead". Or instead of a normal rumble strip along the side of the road to warn you of lane departure, it could just be one designed to repeat "Warning: shoulder lane" over and over again... Interesting idea, if I do say so myself...

[Pimpmastahanhduece]

or make ridges in the road small enough that they are only loud enough to hear at a higher than legal speed and the speed would allow a good #bumps/sec just like bitrates on a songfile for clear enough audio to have a coherent voice.

[balderdashsir]

Are you talking about somehow redesigning rumble strips to produced synthetic speech?

Not likely.

A more practical means would be an intelligent and focused means of sound projection coupled with a radar gun to track exactly where the "warning" needs to be placed. It would also have to cut through all of the insulation in cars, but every vehicle is different- requiring more r & d. Which in turn means more tax money, unless you just want to pay for it.

[theranter]

If it works with the William Tell Overture, why not with speech? After all, sound is merely vibrations transmitted via the air to your ear drum, which then interprets those vibrations as sound.  I don't see why the sine signature of speech couldn't be converted into a series of strips across a road surface to create speech. Now granted, it would require more precision than was used by Honda to create recognizable speech, but I'm sure a computer controlled machine could do it.

[limonaderrr]

bullshit bullshit bullshit

[aptc2]

Nope I live in lancaster I drive on it 3 times

[MiKikaIwaShizaru]

Very cool!

The city of Liverpool, England ought to do some Beatle songs this way, or Detroit, how about some Motown classics!

And why not do this out in the desert or middle of nowhere, who could be bothered by it then, just have a patch of highway and change it every year, hey little towns, it would be good for tourism! (On a 4 lane highway, just have it in the right lanes, then you could skip it!)

And also, states/countries could "program" their state/country songs at the border crossings!

[martinjamieson]

I think you were going too slow...

[panamera]

i dont get it...... its stupid

[cjbevan69]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but William tells ovature I think.

[rallierf1]

For crying out loud...If you want music there are radios!!!! Imagine having to drive for 2 hours + and constantly hearing this!!!! Talk about road rage :P

[LtJackboot]

Guinness should declare it the world's biggest record to keep them from re-paving it. I'd like to hear what it sounds like to passersby as well though. they say it's just a high pitched whining.

[IntroducingEmy]

You have to have a Honda Civic and be going at 55 MPH to have it work correctly, supposedly. Still silly though...