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Mario Theme....with an RC Car?

Category: Go Ahead, Waste Your Time
Posted on: June 22, 2008 4:50 AM, by Dave Bacon

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

Posted by: Mark S. | June 22, 2008 7:28 AM

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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.

Posted by: HP | June 22, 2008 10:40 AM

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Only in Japan............

Posted by: themadlolscientist | June 22, 2008 1:57 PM

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

Posted by: peter | June 22, 2008 2:10 PM

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