http://www.metafilter.com/tags/rumblestrips Posts tagged with 'rumblestrips' at MetaFilter. Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:51:26 -0800 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:51:26 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/99250/Getting%2Da%2Dbuzz%2Don%2Dwhile%2Dyou%2Ddrive Heading out for a drive this weekend? Live near Lake Biwa in Japan? Then head over the O-hashi ('Big Bridge') and sing along with the music your car will make as it runs over the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhN7bjnfVg">'Melody Road'</a>. These attractions (distractions?) - created by carving ridges into the surface of the road, causing your tires to play 'music' - have popped up all over Japan in recent years (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTsoP3WWgU4">here's an English-language news clip on the phenomenon</a>). But if you are a road engineer, and are thinking of perhaps making one of these, you had better do the math properly, something the engineers on a similar project for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJFGacuxcSM">a Honda commercial</a> spectacularly failed to do. (Analysis of what went wrong on <a href="http://davidsd.org/2008/12/honda-needs-a-tune-up/">this interesting blog post</a>). tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.99250 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:51:26 -0800 driving melodyroad roadconstruction rumblestrips woodblock100