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11/15/2007 09:09:47 AM · #1 |
So about 10 years ago, I came up with an idea and constantly joked with my co-workers that I was going to become rich off of it. My idea was "Musical Rumble Strips" on highways.
You know when you're driving and they have rumble strips on the road to warn you about one thing or another? I thought it would be cool if they spaced the grooves on the road in such a way that it would make a song as you drive over them.
I was always joking around about this idea, saying I was going to quit my job there and develop this concept.
So, this morning I got a message from a former co-worker who I literally haven't heard from since around 1999:
Japan stole your musical roads idea:
Article
Yet another opportunity lost for me. |
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11/15/2007 09:11:09 AM · #2 |
| LOL! You should have acted on that idea! |
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11/15/2007 09:12:03 AM · #3 |
You really should have acted on the idea. You would be rich from it now!!!
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11/15/2007 09:22:48 AM · #4 |
| Sorry you missed out, but that's a very cool idea! You could turn Pachelbel's Canon into a speed metal song just by stepping on the accelerator. :-) |
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11/15/2007 09:30:14 AM · #5 |
things that pop to mind :
Name that tune hiways ..
Lawsuits against local governments by the RIAA ...
more road signs .. |
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11/15/2007 09:32:19 AM · #6 |
The tire companies love this idea!!!
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11/15/2007 09:39:02 AM · #7 |
Great. Cars full of stoned teenagers driving down the rumble strips to the tune of "Stairway to Heaven". I can't wait.
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11/15/2007 09:40:31 AM · #8 |
I think that's a great idea to make people slow down and enjoy the ride!!
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11/15/2007 09:57:26 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by alanfreed:
So about 10 years ago, I came up with an idea and constantly joked with my co-workers that I was going to become rich off of it. My idea was "Musical Rumble Strips" on highways.
You know when you're driving and they have rumble strips on the road to warn you about one thing or another? I thought it would be cool if they spaced the grooves on the road in such a way that it would make a song as you drive over them.
I was always joking around about this idea, saying I was going to quit my job there and develop this concept.
So, this morning I got a message from a former co-worker who I literally haven't heard from since around 1999:
Japan stole your musical roads idea:
Article
Yet another opportunity lost for me. |
Very cool....kind of like 'guitar hero on the road' :)
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11/15/2007 09:58:21 AM · #10 |
| My other idea was to take it a step further and try to make it synthesize a voice as you drive over them. You could be driving and the road could tell, "Slow down... you're going to kill somebody!" Or whatever. |
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11/15/2007 10:02:58 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by alanfreed:
My other idea was to take it a step further and try to make it synthesize a voice as you drive over them. You could be driving and the road could tell, "Slow down... you're going to kill somebody!" Or whatever. |
Nah, they'd just play Feelin' Groovy. |
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11/15/2007 10:06:19 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by alanfreed:
My other idea was to take it a step further and try to make it synthesize a voice as you drive over them. You could be driving and the road could tell, "Slow down... you're going to kill somebody!" Or whatever. |
Well, some engineer designed a long bridge near my hometown in NC with a rhythmic up and down motion if you cross at about the posted speed limit. It will flat put you to sleep. ;)
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11/15/2007 10:57:33 AM · #13 |
Someone stole my idea of using Tesla coils to do that too: YouTube
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11/15/2007 11:04:03 AM · #14 |
Originally posted by ralph:
things that pop to mind :
Lawsuits against local governments by the RIAA ... |
No doubt -- wait until they try and confiscate all the "pirated copies." |
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