America gets first musical road

[bijou]

Workers have begun carving grooves on the first 'musical road' in the United States, which will produce notes of the William Tell Overture when cars drive over them.

The high desert city of Lancaster north of Los Angeles placed the grooves on another road, Avenue K, last month for a Honda commercial.

The quarter-mile strip was engineered to play the notes - better known as the theme for The Lone Ranger - when motorists hit them at 55 mph.

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Well that will be entertaining the first time you hear it, after that not so much.

[djones520]

I've got to imagine that it can't be great on your tires.