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1. #1 Mark S.

   June 22, 2008

   My guess is, “real”, but they got lazy about synching the video with the audio.

2. #2 HP

   June 22, 2008

   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.

3. #3 themadlolscientist

   June 22, 2008

   Only in Japan…………

4. #4 peter

   June 22, 2008

   here’s a link to an article about the musical roads on gizmodo from last year