Honda Motor - The Civic Musical Road, Vehicle-based Sound Production, 2008

The idea first started in Japan as a way to attract tourists to Gunma prefecture, 60 miles northwest of Tokyo. The idea is to use rumble strips to reproduce a song. The strips must be carefully placed (after doing some serious calculations) so that when a car drives over them, the driver (and passengers) will hear the music play.
More info:
http://automobiles.honda.com/civic-sedan/videos.aspx
Honda Motor has used this idea to create Honda Civic advertising. It has developed the Civic Music Road in Lancaster, California. While drivers were delighted with the initiative, the residents were annoyed at the increased noise pollution. The original work has been taken down, but it has been redone on a less problematic route in an industrial zone. By moving the musical road a bit off the beaten track, the new location will help avoid clogging up already busy routes.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• sound
• interface
• vehicle
• car
• acceleration
• musical
• road

[jvdthwip]

It almost sounds like it ought to be driven at 70 mph

[paulseahawks123]

that girl is a bitch and she sounds like a guy

[copedipper25]

@rodrigorosatoalves. Ur a fuckin retard honda is made by japan not US Honda (expecialy civics) are Jap-scrap (quoted by Barrick's dad)

[9N9A9D9E9E9R9]

so cool ^_^

[rodrigoeternalfallen]

oh... it wasn't THAT bad though... :P

[lokinhosk7]

its not US its japanese!!

[drbortz]

maybe next time they'll get the right notes. one can only hope. or they could just stick to making cars...

[rodrigorosatoalves]

i cant barely hear it! This noisy US made cars...

[underdawg128]

The bitchy neighbors made them repave over it so its gone.

I heard it was going to be moved to an industrial area

[mailman4380]

ANNOYING