I saw this Honda Civic ad today where a section of road has grooves cut into it. The result of this is as the car drives over it at 55 mph, a preset musical tone plays from the grooves. I thought that was pretty cool! There are also a whole bunch of other videos of youtube with handheld cameras of people going along this section of road. What I was able to learn from the web was that lots of residents who lived close to this section complained that it was being a disturbance, so the road was paved over. However, this was remade on another section of road farther away from homes, so if anyone is visiting Lancaster, CA, which is about 70 miles N of Los Angeles, you should try this out! Check this news article for some more info.
However, such musical roads are already present in Holland, Japan and South Korea. Here's the Wiki on this too. Here's hoping these roads are made in lot more places!
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I was in Lancaster last April and the musical road wasn't there at that time - they had done the grooving at that time. It was done sometime in Sep 08
Sad part was the residents of Lancaster complained about the noise levels and the city decided to resurface the road soon thereafter....
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