Rumble Strips – Type A

Nearly everyone has driven over those rumble strips at the side of the road. I guess they are there to keep people from accidentally run off the edge of the road incase they had fallen asleep or something. All the rumble strips that I have seen are so boring. I think that they should be set up to play a song or something. All you would have to do is to change the width and separation of the cut to get a different pitch. By doing so in stretches, one could make a song. What is even better, is that the pitch is effected by how fast the car is going. Because of this, if the width and spacing of the cuts are set up for a certain speed, the song will sound best if driving the speed limit (supposing that is the designed speed). That would give the driver an incentive to drive the correct speed. Just think, Beethoven’s ninth would stretch out over 90 miles (at 75mph). Of course one would have to have fun by putting songs like “I can’t drive 55” on the highway. I am sure that many people would be tempted to try the chipmunks’ version of the song by traveling at 75 instead of 55. What would be even more fun is to set it up so that one could use both the right and left set of tires. One could play two notes at once. Just imagine dueling banjos in your car.