i mean that probably wont happen since its only the rumble strip and if you start to hear it you'd probably wake up and just move aside without recognizing it's supposed to be music
The same old story worldwide. To mess things up now and again is understandable but to screw things up regularly on a professional basis take real incompetence. The list of council [local government] screw ups is fully inclusive and endless.
@@Ithtorukk I mean, you can still put a coffee cup on it!... Kind of... Well I guess the cup keeps sliding off and spilling everywhere but other than that it's perfect!
My brothers and I were surprised when we drove over that at night time when we were visiting. Ironically it happened right in the middle of an intense conversation when terrible marching band music began playing from the ground. By far the most confusing seconds of my life
Having studied architecture at university, this stuff sometimes happens. It's like playing "telephone." Information gets lost between the exchange & transfer of ideas between the designer, the engineer, the contractor, & even the construction crew. That's why it's essential to tour the building site and build mock ups to scale and smaller models so that everyone is clear on what is going on.
@@CoyoteSeven True. This is mostly a gimmick so the expense is not justified and there were no safety risks involved that would make that stuff necessary.
What we wanted: William Tell What we got: His public-domain expy, Billy Inform. ...maybe the musical road would've sounded better if the car were travelling faster?
I know I'm late here. Just found this. I appreciate the explanation here. You see I drive down this road a dozen times a week sometimes. I have driven it at every speed imaginable trying to find the right speed to make it sound right. Now I know why my attempts were futile.
That's 2^(3/12) = 2^.25 = 1.892 times the speed limit, which on californian highways is 65mph- making that minor third higher be 77.29mph, or 12.29mph too fast.
Having said that, I'm simplifying because there are only a few notes played and we don't get the top end of the scale, so I'm assuming if we went all the way up there wouldn't be any more ~spicy~ note choices
I used to live in Lancaster, and I loved that road when I was a kid. But now listening to it many years later it’s just sad, but also quite charming in it’s own depressing way.
I knew I would find this comment if I looked in the comments. My thoughts precisely. Whoever made the road missed a really big opportunity to Rick roll tons of people
The highway system in the US was built with the idea that all the roads connected to Detroit. Why? Well, during WWII Detroit was the city where all tanks were being made. It was made for easy deployment should the US get invaded. The highways were also wide enough to be used as emergency landing/takeoff strips for aircraft during the cold war I believe. This is also why the US highways are very, very straight.
@@TeaMMatE11 sounds fair enough. Meanwhile in Sydney are roads were built for horses and now everyone complains we need new roads yet complains when they're being built.
Izabella Sonier in 2022, people have forgotten who JuiceWrld is. Roads have no use when there are rocket cars. Instead when traveling the rockets make sounds similar to Smash Mouth’s, Allstar.
It would suck if you were chilling with your own music and you didn’t know about this road, and then you heard “wum wum wum, wum wum wum, wum wum wum wum wum wuum »
If the specifications said, "four inches apart,' then you can't blame the crew; they built it exactly as specified. The plan should have said, "four inches on center."
I'm interested in manufacturing and have a degree in electrical engineering and in my experience it's important to speak the language of the people doing the work and to understand the implications of things that seem innocuous. there's that old story of an engineering student being charged a hundred dollars for a part and one being charged 10,000 dollars for a part. The latter student didn't take into account the tolerances that were actually needed versus what was calculated or on the drawing.
So how do they screw it up twice then? These contracted construction crews and CalTrans are constantly screwing up projects whether through negligence or incompetence
@@killaken2000 theta why you should spend some time working these jobs. I'm an aerospace engineer. Spent a while as an electricians apprentice. Then ran a remodel company with my buddy for 2.5 years. Also worked at as a maintenance manager at my schools airport. All were super helpful.
This is exactly why most stuff is built in china today. A higher average IQ of 105, immensely more hardworking, strict standards - a much more ideal workforce and pool of human talent
I had a teacher tell me once that rock and roll was largely influenced by the automobile, and the rhythm of your car hitting the seams between sections in the highway. The seams lend themselves to simple time signatures like 4/4 and the seams reinforce the beat... Of course, that argument only works if you calculate out the bpm and see if it works out that it's close to the same speed as the seams on the road.
There is a musical road in Hungary that plays very nicely, but the grooves are only underneath the right set of tires, and that got me thinking that you could have two narrow lines of grooves underneath both left and right side of the car which would enable you to have much faster note switching and you could also play two notes at a time. MAKE IT HAPPEN!
So I live close to where this road is, and this guy is a little wrong. The original road sounded good and was done correctly by the car company. When residents complained because it was so noisy and caused a huge traffic problem the city paved over it and then the city redid it, and they redid it incorrectly. It wasn't done wrong twice. Just the second time.
My mom showed me this road as a kid and I never realized it was a publicity stunt, I always just thought someone messed up on a road and made a funny noise, cool to go down memory lane and learn something
So what you're saying is that there's still a niche to be filled here. By someone, somewhere in America, to make a musical road that actually sounds like what it's supposed to be.
There is most likely already other musical roads in the u.s but tbh I’d rather not have one or at least one near me cause having to listen to that must be annoying
I can’t stop laughing at how bad they screwed up. I lived in Lancaster for a year but never bothered to go there because I didn’t know the story of them butchering it
There are signs saying that you are about to go over the musical road so it won't just be out of nowhere and plus that road is not that often travelled.
I remember the commercial where they were promoting the car, they had footage of them going and measuring the grooves with calipers, and then easing up to an exact speed, and listening intently, and then that lethargic, tuneless groan resonated throughout the vehicle. They then proceeded to congratulate themselves, acting almost as if they didn't know what it was supposed to sound like. It was embarrassing.
At 88mph, you travel back in time. At 55mph, it just looks like your wheels are. And if you're wondering why I didn't get out to measure things: the city's put "no stopping" signs for half a mile each way, presumably to stop people risking their lives on the highway doing just that...!
The most unique thing of Tom Scott's video is that he never cuts the video into part and upload it like that and also he travels those places to make videos
Thats what its originally for i think. In europe we have kinda the same thing on the side of our roads... but not playing music but making a loud sound and make your car vibrate so if youre asleep you wake up instead of crashing or driving off road.
If I had a nickel for every musical road built by a car company in Lancaster, California that was completely off tune caused by a misinterpretation of the instructions given, causing not only each dent in the pavement to be too far from each other but also not taking into consideration the width of each dent, thus causing the melody to sound depressing and horrible... I'd have two nickels... It's not much, but is weird it happened twice
They should have this for every rumble strip in America, with different songs. Traveling down an interstate that terminates in a T-intersection with the Sonic drowning theme would be rad af
In Germany we have a cool tv series wich is called "Realer Irrsinn" (engl. "real insanity") where they show bizzare bureaucracy failures that cost from thousands to millions of euros in tax money for some fancy stuff that is not working as inteded or not working at all in the end. More like bureauCRAZY. (it's so german, I can't belive it myself... xD) Everytime collection office wants some 100€ back pay I pay it...but also send a link to such a video with it so they feel guilty
I live in Lancaster, California, where the road is located, and let me tell you. It kills me EVERY time I pass by it, but whenever I drive through that road... I ALWAYS drive through that lane! I love this distorted road and I will be devastated if they paved over it. Our city has nothing to show to the world but this small strip of concrete. It's a terrible road, but it's OUR terrible road.
Next time, ask a German engineer. He would have built you a machine into which you could load a song, enter the speed, and then it would cut the grooves into the road fully automatically.
This reminds me of debugging code. You finish your code, run it and realise that it doesn't do what you intended. So you go back, fix one thing that could be the issue, only to realise that the result hasn't changed by a lot. It usually takes more than one additional attempt to completely fix an error, even if it is as simple as in this case, but unlike with code, each attempt costs a LOT of money here. EDIT: I am seeing a lot of similar responses here, so just to clarify: I am not saying that the usual engineering process is like debugging code. In fact, going about building a road like a hobby coder would go about coding, ie. engineering based on trial and error, is absolutely archaic and should have been a thing of the past ever since we started counting our years, if not earlier. What I'm saying is that the approach they apparently chose here reminded me of how I occasionally debug code.
If it gets a pothole , does the bass drop?
It will skip like a record
Ron Bhm *cues dubstep
Bass drops, tire pops.
Ron Bhm 😹😹😹😹😹😹😹
Ron Bhm no, but your suspension will
Imagine not knowing about musical road and passing there at night. It would be creepy.
OH CRAP! IS THAT SIREN HEAD?!
@@thesturm8686 Bruh
i mean that probably wont happen since its only the rumble strip and if you start to hear it you'd probably wake up and just move aside without recognizing it's supposed to be music
Now I want a stretch of roadway that whispers "Hello, Clarice" when you drive over it.
''Why do I hear boss music?''
Imagine driving down this road at night and you hear this demonic song
Oh god
SATAN HAS COME
Imagine getting 111 less likes than than the satanic number
I thought that was the point.. to keep drivers awake and aware...
666 likes.....
0:14 that still sound cool (but scary)
Compared to original, it's awful 😂
Ahh yes, I love the old adage:
*"Measure twice, cut once, build it wrong twice."*
The same old story worldwide. To mess things up now and again is understandable but to screw things up regularly on a professional basis take real incompetence.
The list of council [local government] screw ups is fully inclusive and endless.
@@robg521 Tbf, sounds like it was contractor work. Nothing like combining the incompetence and high costs of both the public and private sectors.
Measure Twice, Cut once, the planned coffee table is now a chair.
@@Ithtorukk I mean, you can still put a coffee cup on it!... Kind of... Well I guess the cup keeps sliding off and spilling everywhere but other than that it's perfect!
Jesus loves you very much repent and believe onto Him and be saved from eternal punishment of sin amen, Jesus DIED + SUFFERED for you
My brothers and I were surprised when we drove over that at night time when we were visiting. Ironically it happened right in the middle of an intense conversation when terrible marching band music began playing from the ground. By far the most confusing seconds of my life
Confused cause you didn't read the road signs explaining what is about to happen?
@@MrT------5743 probably a little preoccupied or just didn't care to
aaaaaahhhh 666 likes
@@andynonymous6769 ahh California people.
Keep right next time
if I heard this randomly i would be scared shitless
Same
Lmfao I live here in lancaster and Once we drove over it and my brother thought we were gonna die
You're not alone
EnricoAwsome 2k* :)
Sounds like a demon summoning itself
Having studied architecture at university, this stuff sometimes happens.
It's like playing "telephone."
Information gets lost between the exchange & transfer of ideas between the designer, the engineer, the contractor, & even the construction crew. That's why it's essential to tour the building site and build mock ups to scale and smaller models so that everyone is clear on what is going on.
That always takes more time and money though and they clearly didn't want to spend that much on it.
@@CoyoteSeven
True. This is mostly a gimmick so the expense is not justified and there were no safety risks involved that would make that stuff necessary.
It does not matter what anyone is saying, all that matters is in the signed blueprints (and sometimes e-mails)
Yup, somebody didn't _clearly_ specify "on center", so it got interpreted as "edge-to-edge" instead.
Well then do graphical instructions ... not that hard ...
What we want: William Tell
What we got: The copyright free version of Imperial March
Haha
Oh god this is underrated
1.6k likes but barely any replies
What we wanted: William Tell
What we got: His public-domain expy, Billy Inform.
...maybe the musical road would've sounded better if the car were travelling faster?
XD
"Aww darn the road is out of tune."
"I have an idea, let's just rebuild it *the same way we did last time."*
_Brilliant!!_
Oh yeah yeah
That's government for you!
It was so nice - they build it twice
Still wrong? Well we'll rebuild again then.
I mean it’s still cool, sounds like a depressed trumpet player who doesn’t care anymore.
U mean to say squidward?
Phil Collins?
Phil Collins?
Phill Collins ?
Phill Collins?
I know I'm late here. Just found this. I appreciate the explanation here. You see I drive down this road a dozen times a week sometimes. I have driven it at every speed imaginable trying to find the right speed to make it sound right. Now I know why my attempts were futile.
Imagine if you drove over this without realising it was there 😂
I did I was like wtf
@@CS-ro1mx 😂 I'd think my car was possessed or something tbh
There's that damn music again! Where's it coming from?! Oh well, at least I'm not hearing Voices.
@@carlosantuckwell Doctor I keep hearing out of tune music when I drive my car pls help
And at night time 😂
I honestly want someone to redo the road so it actually sounds good, because I want to hear what a properly done musical road would sound like.
There's one in Eastern Europe that sounds genuinely nice, though I can't remember which country it was
Edit: Hungary. It's on RUclips.
one in japan look up mt fuji song road it sounds like this sorts but better
There's one in New Mexico
Maybe, three times a charm.
Some EU countries are putting their national anthems in the road so you know you've crossed a border.
Imagine getting caught speeding there: "Sir, you've been going a minor third too fast..."
"Sir, you were going allegro in an andante zone.."
"Sir, you were going vivace at a school zone"
That's 2^(3/12) = 2^.25 = 1.892 times the speed limit, which on californian highways is 65mph- making that minor third higher be 77.29mph, or 12.29mph too fast.
@@LyonsTheMad r/theydidthemath
@@ComradeToeKnee or they pretended to, knowing we are too lazy to check it.
I want to see this built CORRECTLY. I want to see how accurate it is to the original song, and I think it would sound really cool.
【Ｔｈｉｓ ｒｏａｄ ｉｓ ｏｕｔ ｏｆ ｔｕｎｅ】
WoW bRo Is ThAt AeStHeTiC fOnT
@@somethingiwillremember1239 the font is a JoJo's reference my guy
@@SpagheddiO wOw BrO i HaD nO iDeA tHaNkS fOr InFoRmInG mE
@@SpagheddiO bRo CaN yOu LiNk JjBa FoNt GeNeRaToR
INTONATION
It kinda sounds like some old ww2 radio propaganda
Dang scary
Comrade why Pay for American propaganda when mother Russia offers for free
Ye
or some "modern" north korean propaganda
😂😂😂😂😂
Be right back, gotta tune my road.
sounds like something out of a bill wurtz video
THE SUN IS A DEADLY LAZER
Don't forget to take a tuning forklift.
proefslak Not anymore, there's a blanket.
You could make a religion out of this.
“A little bit” 0:37
Expectation: LA Philharmonic
Reality: Middle School band
Well, it does... To prove this point, please listen to it at 2x speed and tell me what you hear. 😉
some are off by 5 semitones and it’s “a little bit” lmfaoo
It’s almost sounds like a bunch of people singing under the road and playing the trumpet
That’s what they’re not telling you! 🤔
The sound of the lost souls of the dead workers under the road
It sounds like your username?
Uwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwu
uwu stfu
The minor-ish key it has ended up in, fits the resulting sadness of the construction screw-up so well
Wrong directions yields wrong results
Architecture screw up.
The construction was perfect to the design given. 4in apart and 4in on center are very different results.
Has that Star Fox SNES boss music going for it
Thats how most roads in cali are, done wrong.
Having said that, I'm simplifying because there are only a few notes played and we don't get the top end of the scale, so I'm assuming if we went all the way up there wouldn't be any more ~spicy~ note choices
imagine randomly driving over this and being like “god?!”
Boss music
STOLEN
You shouldn't use balsphemy
Imagine driving while smoking weed and then you hit that road.
Cause you didn't play attention to road signs you think it is god? Driving in the US requires you to read road signs.
I used to live in Lancaster, and I loved that road when I was a kid. But now listening to it many years later it’s just sad, but also quite charming in it’s own depressing way.
It’s a perfect representation of Lancaster: sad and broken (no disrespect I lived there too).
everybody gangsta til the road be like: 🎵
mario pp same name?
Cursed pfp
Everyone gangsta till real life start copying Minecraft noteblocks
@@fclly wow u changed ur name so now the joke is ruined ;(
mario pp LMFAOO
The musical road sounds like something from the old Speed Racer soundtrack.
Bro legit tho it sounds like a army chant
He's going over that musical road.... Eeugh!
It sounds like people having Vietnam flashbacks
There is a thing like this in hungary too
SuperJoself are you fine?
Sounds exactly like a middle school orchestra.
Who has orchestras in middle school?
as someone who was in middle school band, can confirm
HAHAHAHAH
Our middle school jazz band sounds much better...
True
2:52 “this note here” 😎
Well done! Looks like they did not pay half the attention you gave there for timing as well 😄
imagine getting rick rolled by a road
Rick road....
Yes I'll see myself out...
Baby Potato my exact thoughts
I would remove my tires
That sounds like the type of thing that would only happen to me
I knew I would find this comment if I looked in the comments. My thoughts precisely. Whoever made the road missed a really big opportunity to Rick roll tons of people
The real question is, why is this road 6 lanes wide when it’s in the middle of nowhere and there was like 1 other car the entire time
America
K moby
The highway system in the US was built with the idea that all the roads connected to Detroit. Why? Well, during WWII Detroit was the city where all tanks were being made. It was made for easy deployment should the US get invaded. The highways were also wide enough to be used as emergency landing/takeoff strips for aircraft during the cold war I believe. This is also why the US highways are very, very straight.
@@TeaMMatE11 sounds fair enough. Meanwhile in Sydney are roads were built for horses and now everyone complains we need new roads yet complains when they're being built.
Closed for filming
It’s year 2020
Every quarter mile there is a strip of road that plays despacito
You always hear the song
It’s everywhere
There is no escape
In that case I'll just walk.
Year 2021, despacito has gone out of style... the replaced every single one with lucid dreams. There is no escape, it's all a lucid dream
Thx for the nightmares
I laughed so hard at this. I made a noise I've never made before ROFLMAO
Izabella Sonier in 2022, people have forgotten who JuiceWrld is. Roads have no use when there are rocket cars. Instead when traveling the rockets make sounds similar to Smash Mouth’s, Allstar.
"No Patrick, a highway is not an instrument."
"Car tires are not an instrument either"
*On a roadtrip to California*
*Incredibly tired at night, close to our destination*
*This plays in the air*
did u just write a haiku bruh
@@sudokee7063sorta looks like it, but the syllables aren’t even close 😭 9-14-5
@@flowerene2630
*On trip to Cali*
*This plays in the dead of night*
*It's snowing on Mt. Fuji*
@@apexreactions4231 so close!! 5-7-7!!
@@flowerene2630
*Roadtrip to Cali*
*In the silence of the night*
*The eerie song plays*
They tried to give us background music irl. I respect that
Lmao
It would suck if you were chilling with your own music and you didn’t know about this road, and then you heard “wum wum wum, wum wum wum, wum wum wum wum wum wuum »
Imagine chilling with your family and you start to hear Sweet Home Alabama
They already did, it's radio
So music isn't real then? Aha
If the specifications said, "four inches apart,' then you can't blame the crew; they built it exactly as specified. The plan should have said, "four inches on center."
Yes, exactly.
I'm interested in manufacturing and have a degree in electrical engineering and in my experience it's important to speak the language of the people doing the work and to understand the implications of things that seem innocuous.
there's that old story of an engineering student being charged a hundred dollars for a part and one being charged 10,000 dollars for a part. The latter student didn't take into account the tolerances that were actually needed versus what was calculated or on the drawing.
So how do they screw it up twice then? These contracted construction crews and CalTrans are constantly screwing up projects whether through negligence or incompetence
@@Nick_CF From what I understand, the blueprints were wrong, not the crew, and they used the exact same blueprints for both.
@@killaken2000 theta why you should spend some time working these jobs. I'm an aerospace engineer. Spent a while as an electricians apprentice. Then ran a remodel company with my buddy for 2.5 years. Also worked at as a maintenance manager at my schools airport. All were super helpful.
3:19 It still did a lot, despite being "an SUV"
I've actually driven in this road behind friends and legitimately said "WTF was that?"
Something unholy
@@urcookin for real.
It does give off horror vibes
This is exactly why most stuff is built in china today.
A higher average IQ of 105, immensely more hardworking, strict standards - a much more ideal workforce and pool of human talent
"sorry, I just farted"
If I ever own a house with a long driveway, I'm going to make my driveway play Megalovania when someone pulls up.
On days like these, kids like you
*should be parallel parking*
*why do I hear boss music?*
Bia Lilly took me a minute to get the reference lmao
@@shart__ HOW
That’s a long driveway
0:15 play it at 2.0x and you can finally hear some similarities to the original song.
We need to break speed limits to hear the original huh?
The ends justifies the means
POWERRRRRRRRRRR
I guess the added speed is working to counter the added space.
Now we need someone to drive there at 220mph to see if it helps more.
No cars, no inlets, music road, thats a good excuse officer.
0:14 I really like this version
If they could only do this properly, but with the imperial march
Jarsia or Preußens gloria
2 words
Disney Copyright
Gets my vote
Fuel by Metallica
@@platypustis it would sound like one of those distorted, hard bass, earrape versions. For this reason I approve.
"Hey what instrument do you play?"
"The road."
Vortex hey I play the mayonnaise we should make a band
Mmm I only play lists 😀
Is asphalt an instrument?
I had a teacher tell me once that rock and roll was largely influenced by the automobile, and the rhythm of your car hitting the seams between sections in the highway. The seams lend themselves to simple time signatures like 4/4 and the seams reinforce the beat...
Of course, that argument only works if you calculate out the bpm and see if it works out that it's close to the same speed as the seams on the road.
Not Liszt?
It would be better if it played africa by Toto
Like the video Chris Kogos made
I bless the rains down in Africa
Sourclout BLESS THE RAINS DOWN IN AFRIKAaaaaAaaAaAaaAaaAAaAaAaA
And have it sound like some demonic song? No, thanks
By pitbull??
A couple days ago I watched a video of someone driving a musical road that sounded just fine. It was in Palmdale.
There is a musical road in Hungary that plays very nicely, but the grooves are only underneath the right set of tires, and that got me thinking that you could have two narrow lines of grooves underneath both left and right side of the car which would enable you to have much faster note switching and you could also play two notes at a time. MAKE IT HAPPEN!
my tires like smooth roads though
Bikers = 😭
Very clever of you! Could play both hands of the piano I'm thinking 🎹
Actually big brain
@@iam1smiley1 exactly!
Expectation: fun music
Reality: *demonic summoning ritual*
Imagine driving at midnight not knowing and get jump scared by a mf road 💀
Listen to it at .25 speed
You summon demons by going over it in reverse. 👹
Jeremy clackson did that once on a episode of top gear you need to look it up if you haven’t already
Not making it go to 667
So I live close to where this road is, and this guy is a little wrong. The original road sounded good and was done correctly by the car company. When residents complained because it was so noisy and caused a huge traffic problem the city paved over it and then the city redid it, and they redid it incorrectly. It wasn't done wrong twice. Just the second time.
video of original road?
@H No No, he's asking for a video of the old road.
2:47 🤔🧐
@@fortnitebanana9634 nope, new road.
It was too close to the school aswell
My mom showed me this road as a kid and I never realized it was a publicity stunt, I always just thought someone messed up on a road and made a funny noise, cool to go down memory lane and learn something
There are musical roads like this in Japan near Mt Fuji.
And yes, they got the calculations correct! There are videos on RUclips. 🗻🎵
e.g. ruclips.net/video/y_xvfZUqAtg/видео.html
William. Thanks
There are others in the states that are correct as well.
this has to win the award for channel i'd least expect to comment on another
To me, they all sound crappy...
So what you're saying is that there's still a niche to be filled here. By someone, somewhere in America, to make a musical road that actually sounds like what it's supposed to be.
There is most likely already other musical roads in the u.s but tbh I’d rather not have one or at least one near me cause having to listen to that must be annoying
@@Cinnamontoastcrunch1029 New road building mandate : every road MUST play the baby shark song when driving over it.
@@robonator2945 I can survive that however if they make all roads play any k-pop song I’d 😀🔫
@@Cinnamontoastcrunch1029 How would you know if it's k-pop, it's a road you can't hear words
this is kinda irrelevant but there’s an amazing musical road in hungary that’s nice to listen to
Hearing this at night would be lowkey terrifying
Drew Fisher *offkey terrifying
Jonathan McDanal gottem
Drew Fisher you’d be like “damn that ghost is out of tune”
Why am i hearing boss music?
Imagine a musical road playing Lavender Town. Even if the music gets out of tune, it wouldn't be incorrect.
try it at double the speed it sounds better
Ryan Smith please leave I’ve seen you way too many times
So bassically drive two times faster
I’ve seen you everywhere
Andrew Larson
Only one “time” faster (Although that sounds silly so we say double the speed). 2 times faster would be triple the speed :P
Sam B. No
I'm more amazed at how you perfectly timed your script with the road
@Abraham Johnathan no he's really driving, this is his style of video is to time things really closely
@Abraham Johnathan wrong.
@@conniewilliamson973 i took it as a joke
@Abraham Johnathan how tf would it be gs
@@ethangriffeth3679 aaaa, i think it is meant as a joke, people isn't that silly
Its still pretty cool tho
Yeah
Sounds like rock lobster
GearAlpha ROCK LOBSTA
not really when it could have been so much better had they put in only a bit more effort
Yup
If you drive over it in reverse, you'll hear the Devil. And run into someone else.
And then you go straight to hell
WHAT THE HELL, WE HAVE A MUSICAL ROAD IN OUR CITY AND I DIDNT KNOW THIS LMAO
My family would drive over it a bunch of times on our way to Apollo Park and we just assumed that was what it was supposed to sound like 😂
U didn’t know 😂
Villanelle state*
@@6_xn hate to break it to you, Lancaster is a city. Not a state.
Seriously, you didnt know? I think it's off Avenue D and like 30th west
This video has motivated me to save up enough money just so I can bribe a mayor to let me put *never gonna give you up* in a road
@Dinosaur Kira yes...every road should have that
Would that be a... Rick Road?
@@sword7166 that physically hurt . . .Soo bad yet Soo good XD
We should put the song "shawty's like a melody in my head"
@@userrichkid225 you mean replay by iyaz?
Why nobody is saying anything about how empty the whole road is.
to avoid that hideous music
That's what I was thinking! This huge six-lane road is completely empty. So strange.
its in the middle of a desert
The whole road is empty.
There, I said it.
The road is in the middle of the dessert.
RUclips how you wound me. For some reason I thought this was a new Tom Scott video. Goes to show he's covered more content that I've yet to see.
These engineers are freakin casuals. Wrong ticks set on the repeaters
they also used regular torches instead of redstone torches
@@cfdeers
If someone actually did that it would be very depressing
Bruh i dont even know how to use those
And not using 0 ticks for the noteblocks hurt me
The real problem is that they rebuilt it one more time and it was somehow still wrong...
Me: Mom I want William Tell Overture - Rossini
Mom: We have William Tell Overture - Rossini at home
William Tell Overture - Rossini at home: 0:13
😂😂😂
This comment feels like it was written by a computer
*demonic awakening*
Beat me to it
Dumb comment
the musical road gives me everywhere at the end of time vibes
lmao same
Oof
Please no, don't remind me
;-;
*wHEn tHe rOaD iS MuSiCAl*
An ad popped up as soon as I clicked on the video and the guy says “looks like you are watching a tom scott video” like how tf they know?
I can’t stop laughing at how bad they screwed up. I lived in Lancaster for a year but never bothered to go there because I didn’t know the story of them butchering it
it's not even that bad tho considering its made from a car driving on it.
I live in the Lancaster but the road is like an ocean and a country away
Probably bc it is
The fact that they did it twice, wow
@@FlowHD You must be tone deaf
Bruh they placed the wrong blocks under the noteblocks bruh.
GabeN_____ Studio 😔✊
Bruh
Bruh
Bruh
Bruh
Imagine driving on that in the middle of the night
SevERN K didn’t see anyone else say it, you’re acting like I care anyways
aahahahah
Done it
There are signs saying that you are about to go over the musical road so it won't just be out of nowhere and plus that road is not that often travelled.
Done.
0:14 POV: It's the 1940s and you hear this music comming from Germany
I remember the commercial where they were promoting the car, they had footage of them going and measuring the grooves with calipers, and then easing up to an exact speed, and listening intently, and then that lethargic, tuneless groan resonated throughout the vehicle. They then proceeded to congratulate themselves, acting almost as if they didn't know what it was supposed to sound like. It was embarrassing.
Topic - Topic do you possibly have a name/link to the commercial? It sounds hilarious to watch
@@lobster1014 right lmao would love to see it
v=YR5Cejq2uyc
@@erik61801 can you provide a better link, I'm on mobile.
i guess we will never get a better link
At 88mph, you travel back in time. At 55mph, it just looks like your wheels are. And if you're wondering why I didn't get out to measure things: the city's put "no stopping" signs for half a mile each way, presumably to stop people risking their lives on the highway doing just that...!
Could have asked for a permission to stop and film it?
There's no-one there anyway...
Ed Silmon still illegal and if you publish the footage someone can see and report that you stoped there.
Stop half a mile and walk the way over. Malicious compliance
How about going 110. Should sound right ?
Sounds like an elephant running from a mouse while choking on a peanut
*Underwater
Hi, fellow basshead
jaakko200987654321 watts up
And how do you know what that sounds like?
😂😂😂
The most unique thing of Tom Scott's video is that he never cuts the video into part and upload it like that and also he travels those places to make videos
Imagine driving there in the middle of the night
Ikr
what about while cooked 😂
Thats what its originally for i think. In europe we have kinda the same thing on the side of our roads... but not playing music but making a loud sound and make your car vibrate so if youre asleep you wake up instead of crashing or driving off road.
You must be Einstein +Your Snape
How did you ever figure that out?
Your Snape im pretty sure its not just on europe -_-
So many memes can be made out of this...
Saw you on another video
HAHAH HEY WAZAAAAAP
WAZZAAAAAAAAAP
Ikr
You’re here again
1927: We will have flying cars in future.
2018: *musical road*
2018: *that doesn't work, that we screwed up twice*
I legit was scrolling down looking for this comment...
Dark Joker 🃏
at least the musical road is creative
Wait where there even cars in 1927
This is why you always keep the engineer and the constructor in the same room when designing the thing.
Imagine being in a car chase running from the cops and you drive over this.
the road would play the gta 5 wanted theme
Boss music
If you’re having a chase at about 200 MPH maybe the road would sound right
0:16 if you put it at x2 speed you can hear it
Problem solved. Just drive twice as fast
Josh Jarnagin orrrrrrr just take some coke
You must go over the speed limit to hear the music
No
Wonder FN it’s still out Of tune just faster out of tune
Imagine driving that road in wrong way to know how it sounds backwards
yungxrist
Cops: Are we a joke to you?
Yung christ is divine let em fall into line let the planets align as they build me a shrine
That’s called a retrograde
CJ $uicideBoy$?
@@zoranernjakovic7247 yea it's from Exodus
Some tunnels in South Korea play a musical notes. I guess to keep you alert and paying attention.
If I had a nickel for every musical road built by a car company in Lancaster, California that was completely off tune caused by a misinterpretation of the instructions given, causing not only each dent in the pavement to be too far from each other but also not taking into consideration the width of each dent, thus causing the melody to sound depressing and horrible...
I'd have two nickels... It's not much, but is weird it happened twice
Phineas and Ferb 😂
It's so easy though, the guy in the clip could do it easily😉
Really weird
There are two? I'm from here, and I only know of the one. Where's the other?
@@MadelynKontis I think he mentioned it in the video
Drive at 250mph, you'll hear Rap God - but just for 1 second.
Shubham Kushwah lmao
Shubham Kushwah wow, you must have a VERY fast car.
Zachary Ricks tesla roadster
😂😂😂😂👍🏻
Zachary Ricks verry fast, verry clean
You kinda look like college Andy from toy story 3
And sounds like him
RIGHT?
This is the most random person comparison I’ve ever seen
Snoop Dogg it’s so accurate though
Clay Soggyfries University Andy given he's Brit XP
It may sound terrible but it could notify someone with a car is coming. It's actually a good thing to me
I wouldn't travel on this road at night.
That demonic music will make sure I drive off-road into a tree
🤣👍🏼...and the car company watching that happening would say "Hehe Buoy”
Must’ve been what Paul Walker heard...spooky 😬
Copy cat
...in the desert?
what trees, all the trees are so small that you would run them over.
Everybody gangster till the road starts playing murder on my mind
thx...
🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The genius of top gear, they thought “let’s drive over it backwards” because there might be a message from the devil. Like in real music. Haha
I need to see that episode
Me too
@@sayingnigromakesyoutubecry2647 s19e02 (;
Oh it's the new top gear
Gotta see it
"... So the city paved over it, and rebuilt it, to the exact same wrong specification."
Oh COME ON.
Time to make a road that plays the full script of Shrek...
nobel peace prize for this genius idea, this will bring the world together
They should have that on all highways so we never get bored of driving! 😛👹
Just make it play All Star over and over and the onions part
YES YES YES!!!
That'll do, donkey!
How I sound playing the violin in my head: 0:08
How I sound to other people: 0:16
Dude yes
666 likes you're welcome
Mr SIS To get better, become Ling Ling, do 40 hours a day of practice.
@@ninthkaikan1544 Ok Boomer
MOOD
I'm just amazed there's something else to experience in Lancaster besides gangs and abandoned tractors. 10/10
Yeah Lancaster kinda sucks
Lancaster is depressing
that's all the love you get in the 661
Sounds just like Lancaster UK :(
It's on the way to the airfield, so there's not a lot of chances to drive on it unless you drive out specifically to drive on it.
They should have this for every rumble strip in America, with different songs. Traveling down an interstate that terminates in a T-intersection with the Sonic drowning theme would be rad af
In Germany we have a cool tv series wich is called "Realer Irrsinn" (engl. "real insanity") where they show bizzare bureaucracy failures that cost from thousands to millions of euros in tax money for some fancy stuff that is not working as inteded or not working at all in the end.
More like bureauCRAZY. (it's so german, I can't belive it myself... xD)
Everytime collection office wants some 100€ back pay I pay it...but also send a link to such a video with it so they feel guilty
Why did no one notice this comment
Ye
Clemens was machst du denn hier? ✌️😂
Realer Irrsinn ist einfach Liebe
Realer Irrsinn... like the ARD? :D
I live in Lancaster, California, where the road is located, and let me tell you. It kills me EVERY time I pass by it, but whenever I drive through that road...
I ALWAYS drive through that lane!
I love this distorted road and I will be devastated if they paved over it. Our city has nothing to show to the world but this small strip of concrete. It's a terrible road, but it's OUR terrible road.
And it sounds cool as bloody hell to me
well, make another one. And this time, make them do it right xD
Same
you guys do have Texas Cattle Co. Good stuff!
@@michaelcollins1196 I love that place! Glad we have something in common
Next time, ask a German engineer. He would have built you a machine into which you could load a song, enter the speed, and then it would cut the grooves into the road fully automatically.
Looks like you don't need to be embarrassed about your singing anymore, Tom.
*Sings wrong note*
"Whoops, just got the calculations wrong!" . . .
*begins measuring throat with ruler*
"Dave did you tune the road?"
"No I didn't sir."
"Tune the road to the key of C minor"
whiplash?
@@quisby8332 what
kinda sounded like whiplash
@@quisby8332 oh. But no it's not a reference to whiplash or anything.
But feel free to believe it's a whiplash reference :D
Its all fun and games until the road plays sono chino koiko isent it, Dio?
In Russia all roads are musical. (Rock music)
Emhyr var Emreis xD
More like drum and bass
You mean the Russian anthem
And they play hardbass)
More like *hard bass*
In all honesty, that “music” would be PERFECT for a horror game
This reminds me of debugging code. You finish your code, run it and realise that it doesn't do what you intended. So you go back, fix one thing that could be the issue, only to realise that the result hasn't changed by a lot. It usually takes more than one additional attempt to completely fix an error, even if it is as simple as in this case, but unlike with code, each attempt costs a LOT of money here.
EDIT: I am seeing a lot of similar responses here, so just to clarify: I am not saying that the usual engineering process is like debugging code. In fact, going about building a road like a hobby coder would go about coding, ie. engineering based on trial and error, is absolutely archaic and should have been a thing of the past ever since we started counting our years, if not earlier. What I'm saying is that the approach they apparently chose here reminded me of how I occasionally debug code.
That's why it's not what civil engineers do. They work with a prototype or small part of whole project for testing.
They need a ci/cd pipeline that’s all
You don’t debug code, you just put enough duct tape in the right places and pray to God it all works.
@@anusmcgee4150 I was gonna say. With code, you go in and change one little thing…
except these were 2 different problems: location and sound. They only fixed one