Japanese Engineers Design Roads That Play Music

Music Highway

According to foreign media reports, Japanese engineers have designed a road that can play music. Those who like to listen to the radio or CDs while riding in a car now have a new way to treat themselves.

a research team at the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute in Japan has paved a number of roads that can play music. The vehicles running on them are equivalent to tuning forks. As the cars run, the roads can play beautiful music. This kind of road uses grooves, and the researchers cut grooves in the road surface at different intervals. Just like driving on the deceleration belt and road signs, the whole vehicle will make a rumbling sound, and the "notes" will be different at different intervals. Depending on the distance of the grooves, the car will produce a series of high or low notes as it passes through them, which designers can use to create unique tunes.

The patent filing for the design describes it as "forming grooves in the road surface, so that beautiful notes can be" played "without producing sound or rhythm, and then form beautiful tunes." Three such music roads have been built in central and northern Japan. One of the songs "played" was a Japanese pop song. The designer paints colored notes on the road ahead of time to alert the driver that there will be a musical section ahead (lasting about 30 seconds). According to the report, the system was originally conceived by Hideyuki Koyama, who accidentally used a bulldozer to dig out some marks on the road. When vehicles passed on it, he found that these marks helped the road produce various tones.

Engineers at the Industrial Research Institute in Sapporo further refined the design. New technologies previously addressed by the research team include the use of infrared light to detect dangerous road surfaces. However, motorists who wish to create their own rock music will find that this is not an easy task. Locals say that you need to maintain the best speed of 28 kilometers per hour to make the music road "play" a pleasant tune, and even so, you may not hear the song you want to hear. "In order to hear the music, you have to close the car windows," a Japanese blogger wrote online. If the car is going too fast, it will sound like a tape. However, when the speed is maintained at about 12 kilometers per hour, there will be a slow effect, which can almost make you dizzy.

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