You must be acquainted with rumble strips, those sections on streets that make an uproarious, unpalatable noise when a vehicle crosses them. Well, here is a list of five mysterious places where the streets actually sing
JAPAN: Japan grasped various singing streets after a designer identified as Shizuo Shinoda unintentionally scratched a street with a bulldozer and understood that the subsequent sections made fascinating sounds. There are currently a few tune streets in Japan, including this one close to Mt. Fuji.
SOUTH KOREA: Almost 70 percent of highway mishaps in South Korea are brought due to snoozing drivers, so the Korean Highway Corp. has introduced melodic scores in especially risky stretches of street trying to get drivers to focus. Here’s one of the melodies, which you’ll slightly off-tune version of “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”
CALIFORNIA: The melodic street in the US can be found in Lancaster, California, where a piece of the ‘William Tell Overture’ plays for drivers going 55 mph. If you listen to the clasp beneath and think, ‘Hmm, something is a little off here…’ you’re totally right.
DENMARK: The Street as a music instrument was invented in 1995 when two Danish artists concocted the raised pavement markers that have rumble strips.
NEW MEXICO: Here, to hear the tune at the best possible speed and pitch, vehicles should carefully comply with the speed point of confinement of 45 mph. Drivers can’t hear the tune if they are going even a couple of miles under or over the breaking point.
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