Why California's musical road sounds terrible

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6 жыл бұрын

In Lancaster, California, there's a musical road. When you drive over it, it plays the William Tell Overture. Unfortunately, it's out of tune. Here's why.
Thanks to David Simmons-Duffin, who figured this out about nine years ago: davidsd.org/2008/12/honda-need... -- he seems to be the first to have figured out not just that it's wrong, but exactly what happened!
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@GaussianEntity 3 жыл бұрын

What we want: William Tell What we got: The copyright free version of Imperial March

@peanutnerd 3 жыл бұрын

Haha

@boomboone47 3 жыл бұрын

Oh god this is underrated

@simplemind9192 3 жыл бұрын

1.6k likes but barely any replies

@gswcooper7162 3 жыл бұрын

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?

@camilaribeiras6311 3 жыл бұрын

@razorstatus4506 6 жыл бұрын

Imagine driving down this road at night and you hear this demonic song

@youtubeenjoyer-pf3tu 6 жыл бұрын

Oh god

@tamzidzuha6149 6 жыл бұрын

SATAN HAS COME

@ismeelu6614 5 жыл бұрын

Imagine getting 111 less likes than than the satanic number

@FukaiKokoro 5 жыл бұрын

I thought that was the point.. to keep drivers awake and aware...

@danstockton4811 5 жыл бұрын

666 likes.....

@apexreactions4231 Жыл бұрын

*On a roadtrip to California* *Incredibly tired at night, close to our destination* *This plays in the air*

@sudokee7063 Жыл бұрын

did u just write a haiku bruh

@flowerene2630 Жыл бұрын

@@sudokee7063sorta looks like it, but the syllables aren’t even close 😭 9-14-5

@apexreactions4231 Жыл бұрын

@@flowerene2630 *On trip to Cali* *This plays in the dead of night* *It's snowing on Mt. Fuji*

@flowerene2630 Жыл бұрын

@@apexreactions4231 so close!! 5-7-7!!

@supersmilyface1 Жыл бұрын

@@flowerene2630 *Roadtrip to Cali* *In the silence of the night* *The eerie song plays*

@TheGreenLing Жыл бұрын

The thing I love about Tom Scott is this video is 5 years old, but it could be today's upload. The quality is so good always!

@irisbutterfly4845 Жыл бұрын

wow I didn't even realize it was 5 years old

@user-sk4wf3ve6z Жыл бұрын

He's only 5 years old in the video too

@Pokeys Жыл бұрын

2017 wasn't a time with ye olde cameras you know.

@domacleod Жыл бұрын

He's also immortal and looks the exact same.

@extremeweirdness1528 Жыл бұрын

The difference in quality of videos from 2012 to 2017 is way more than from 2017-2023.

@LewysC 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine if you drove over this without realising it was there 😂

@CS-ro1mx 4 жыл бұрын

I did I was like wtf

@LewysC 4 жыл бұрын

@@CS-ro1mx 😂 I'd think my car was possessed or something tbh

@carlosantuckwell 4 жыл бұрын

There's that damn music again! Where's it coming from?! Oh well, at least I'm not hearing Voices.

@LewysC 4 жыл бұрын

@@carlosantuckwell Doctor I keep hearing out of tune music when I drive my car pls help

@thecavendishslostkitten3898 4 жыл бұрын

And at night time 😂

@obsidiandeluxe4474 4 жыл бұрын

【Ｔｈｉｓ　ｒｏａｄ　ｉｓ　ｏｕｔ　ｏｆ　ｔｕｎｅ】

@somethingiwillremember1239 4 жыл бұрын

WoW bRo Is ThAt AeStHeTiC fOnT

@SpagheddiO 4 жыл бұрын

@@somethingiwillremember1239 the font is a JoJo's reference my guy

@somethingiwillremember1239 4 жыл бұрын

@@SpagheddiO wOw BrO i HaD nO iDeA tHaNkS fOr InFoRmInG mE

@somethingiwillremember1239 4 жыл бұрын

@@SpagheddiO bRo CaN yOu LiNk JjBa FoNt GeNeRaToR

@notfunnydidntlaugh68 4 жыл бұрын

INTONATION

@BurrritoYT Жыл бұрын

Now I wanna make a road that rickrolls you when you drive it 😎

@gato_feliz605 Жыл бұрын

YES YES DO THAT

@HelloEarthling Жыл бұрын

Evil

@nargiaz7368 Жыл бұрын

0:15

@SafaiaFureia Жыл бұрын

I applaud this idea!!!

@SafaiaFureia Жыл бұрын

Do it in Rick's hometown

@anybody2501 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

That always takes more time and money though and they clearly didn't want to spend that much on it.

@anybody2501 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@funguy398 Жыл бұрын

It does not matter what anyone is saying, all that matters is in the signed blueprints (and sometimes e-mails)

@AaronOfMpls Жыл бұрын

Yup, somebody didn't _clearly_ specify "on center", so it got interpreted as "edge-to-edge" instead.

@TheScytheMoron 7 ай бұрын

Well then do graphical instructions ... not that hard ...

@alineuni04 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine not knowing about musical road and passing there at night. It would be creepy.

@thesturm8686 3 жыл бұрын

OH CRAP! IS THAT SIREN HEAD?!

@gabrielvilanova5575 3 жыл бұрын

@@thesturm8686 Bruh

@syeungmin6204 3 жыл бұрын

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

@deusexaethera 3 жыл бұрын

Now I want a stretch of roadway that whispers "Hello, Clarice" when you drive over it.

@DoesThisWork888 3 жыл бұрын

''Why do I hear boss music?''

@n3v3rg01ngback 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds exactly like a middle school orchestra.

@zizthefirst 3 жыл бұрын

Who has orchestras in middle school?

@lonestar2078 3 жыл бұрын

as someone who was in middle school band, can confirm

@rc_woshimao957 3 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAH

@lisogie 3 жыл бұрын

Our middle school jazz band sounds much better...

@scybridz3579 3 жыл бұрын

True

@cwabcnissan Жыл бұрын

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.

@cerulity32k Жыл бұрын

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.

@System-ru5yt 4 жыл бұрын

imagine getting rick rolled by a road

@confus.d 4 жыл бұрын

Rick road.... Yes I'll see myself out...

@randompersond6945 4 жыл бұрын

Baby Potato my exact thoughts

@protectivecat1196 4 жыл бұрын

I would remove my tires

@pcloser2130 4 жыл бұрын

That sounds like the type of thing that would only happen to me

@johnnyfietkau1224 4 жыл бұрын

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

@atlys258 3 жыл бұрын

Ahh yes, I love the old adage: *"Measure twice, cut once, build it wrong twice."*

@robg521 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@LuizAlexPhoenix 3 жыл бұрын

@@robg521 Tbf, sounds like it was contractor work. Nothing like combining the incompetence and high costs of both the public and private sectors.

@Ithtorukk 2 жыл бұрын

Measure Twice, Cut once, the planned coffee table is now a chair.

@OrangeC7 2 жыл бұрын

@@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!

@Fit4C 2 жыл бұрын

Jesus loves you very much repent and believe onto Him and be saved from eternal punishment of sin amen, Jesus DIED + SUFFERED for you

@MrBurritoMan Жыл бұрын

I have lived in California for most of my life. Seeing something simple like this get screwed up is not surprising at all.

@jorisbonson386 Жыл бұрын

I lived there only a year, but only needed a week to agree with you.

@chamuuemura5314 Жыл бұрын

Same here. My short time in California really lowered my expectations for humanity to the point that this road is impressively good, despite all the alligator cracking.

@BurrritoYT Жыл бұрын

As a burrrito, I can relate

@StefanCreates 5 ай бұрын

Twice

@DarkScorch Жыл бұрын

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.

@snowdoq 7 ай бұрын

It’s a perfect representation of Lancaster: sad and broken (no disrespect I lived there too).

@apexition-apexlegendshighl2090 5 жыл бұрын

if I heard this randomly i would be scared shitless

@Ash.Music.Covers 5 жыл бұрын

Same

@badaboom185 5 жыл бұрын

Lmfao I live here in lancaster and Once we drove over it and my brother thought we were gonna die

@firefish111 5 жыл бұрын

You're not alone

@nathanthompson5270 5 жыл бұрын

EnricoAwsome 2k* :)

@k444ng 5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a demon summoning itself

@ryanside7095 5 жыл бұрын

"Aww darn the road is out of tune." "I have an idea, let's just rebuild it *the same way we did last time."*

@naritruwireve1381 5 жыл бұрын

_Brilliant!!_

@Sean-ow1lo 5 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah yeah

@zlcoolboy 5 жыл бұрын

That's government for you!

@thegreenmadow 5 жыл бұрын

It was so nice - they build it twice

@gorillaau 5 жыл бұрын

Still wrong? Well we'll rebuild again then.

@TobysKpopTop50 Жыл бұрын

For someone who doens't know what it is supposed to sound like, i thought it was just an original composition made by the road workers. so i heard nothing wrong with it

@13vatra Жыл бұрын

Other than it sounding like a dying cow?

@karmaindustrie Жыл бұрын

@@13vatra El Risitas GIF

@LetsplayGamescom Жыл бұрын

The beginning sounded like Jingle Bells...

@Luca_Mel Жыл бұрын

@@13vatraIt sounded like a low pitch choir, I liked it. Just a little bit roughed.

@The_Mimewar Жыл бұрын

The “wrong” version sounded like a 1940s dramatic movie when the bad guys attack

@nske 4 жыл бұрын

everybody gangsta til the road be like: 🎵

@fclly 4 жыл бұрын

mario pp same name?

@GewelReal 4 жыл бұрын

Cursed pfp

@ngchloe9314 4 жыл бұрын

Everyone gangsta till real life start copying Minecraft noteblocks

@Codahh_ 4 жыл бұрын

@@fclly wow u changed ur name so now the joke is ruined ;(

@idekav. 4 жыл бұрын

mario pp LMFAOO

@blubblab4238 4 жыл бұрын

I mean it’s still cool, sounds like a depressed trumpet player who doesn’t care anymore.

@cadencezz9118 4 жыл бұрын

U mean to say squidward?

@AndrewJ9673 4 жыл бұрын

Phil Collins?

@AndrewJ9673 4 жыл бұрын

Phil Collins?

@tintim2230 4 жыл бұрын

Phill Collins ?

@tintim2230 4 жыл бұрын

Phill Collins?

@raidenstokes1026 Жыл бұрын

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

@kerriganqueenofblades7128 Жыл бұрын

Ok question, why don’t they just rebuild it a third time?

@queenbiscuit311 4 жыл бұрын

imagine randomly driving over this and being like “god?!”

@banheesos 4 жыл бұрын

Boss music

@neil3714 4 жыл бұрын

STOLEN

@S_u_n_Flower_ 4 жыл бұрын

You shouldn't use balsphemy

@HighKingOfSkyrim37 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine driving while smoking weed and then you hit that road.

@MrT------5743 2 жыл бұрын

Cause you didn't play attention to road signs you think it is god? Driving in the US requires you to read road signs.

@matthewgower 5 жыл бұрын

It kinda sounds like some old ww2 radio propaganda

@essgeewastaken 5 жыл бұрын

Dang scary

@UnsungHeroist 5 жыл бұрын

Comrade why Pay for American propaganda when mother Russia offers for free

@nazuki5133 5 жыл бұрын

@kawaiiwaste 5 жыл бұрын

or some "modern" north korean propaganda

@killx5546 5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@MeteOguc Жыл бұрын

2:52 “this note here” 😎 Well done! Looks like they did not pay half the attention you gave there for timing as well 😄

@VergilArcanis Жыл бұрын

it's amazing how many times engineers will bash their heads on a wall trying to figure out what's wrong without questioning the design to its foundation

@monhi64 Жыл бұрын

It wasn’t the design? It was designed perfectly fine but either the constructor dropped the ball hard. Or the drawings were unclear and too ambiguous

@andrewpinedo1883 Жыл бұрын

It is likely the fault of the constructors. Who in the right mind would think "1 groove every 4 inches" means a 4-inch gap between grooves?

@Arkiasis 9 ай бұрын

@@monhi64 It's why the words "on center" are very important in construction. "4 inches on center" is what is usually and should be said.

@Orikron 6 жыл бұрын

Be right back, gotta tune my road.

@dotlvcy 6 жыл бұрын

sounds like something out of a bill wurtz video

@proefslak 6 жыл бұрын

THE SUN IS A DEADLY LAZER

@petervilla5221 6 жыл бұрын

Don't forget to take a tuning forklift.

@lukemorosini4 6 жыл бұрын

proefslak Not anymore, there's a blanket.

@lukemorosini4 6 жыл бұрын

You could make a religion out of this.

@HiddenWindshield 4 жыл бұрын

If I ever own a house with a long driveway, I'm going to make my driveway play Megalovania when someone pulls up.

@Liquefaction 4 жыл бұрын

On days like these, kids like you *should be parallel parking*

@sydneytreagus6282 4 жыл бұрын

*why do I hear boss music?*

@shart__ 4 жыл бұрын

Bia Lilly took me a minute to get the reference lmao

@micheal5117 4 жыл бұрын

@@shart__ HOW

@giannagodsey8011 4 жыл бұрын

That’s a long driveway

@marcoshenrique4953 Жыл бұрын

Imagine making one music road with the free bird solo

@BlazRa Жыл бұрын

It would need to be a very long road

@fishrealm Жыл бұрын

It wouldn’t work because people would go too fast

@DIEGhostfish 5 ай бұрын

@fishrealm, it's an inherent contraducrion contradictio

@psychromaniac3525 Жыл бұрын

This is why you always keep the engineer and the constructor in the same room when designing the thing.

@vortexmeta 6 жыл бұрын

"Hey what instrument do you play?" "The road."

@matthewrizkhla3593 6 жыл бұрын

Vortex hey I play the mayonnaise we should make a band

@COJ.Island 6 жыл бұрын

Mmm I only play lists 😀

@PlainclothesBandit 6 жыл бұрын

Is asphalt an instrument?

@nacoran 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@nacoran 6 жыл бұрын

Not Liszt?

@ayebing 4 жыл бұрын

If it gets a pothole , does the bass drop?

@frontxxrunner 4 жыл бұрын

It will skip like a record

@nocturnal7345 4 жыл бұрын

Ron Bhm *cues dubstep

@GothR6S 4 жыл бұрын

Bass drops, tire pops.

@nardion9980 4 жыл бұрын

Ron Bhm 😹😹😹😹😹😹😹

@wolfgang5261 4 жыл бұрын

Ron Bhm no, but your suspension will

@beethebeanbag692 Жыл бұрын

This is like “why do I hear boss music?” but different

@juberan6447 Жыл бұрын

"why do I hear depressing music"

@Meteorite_Shower Жыл бұрын

"Why do I hear E Rank music?"

@thepopeofwigwungo5823 Жыл бұрын

"Why do I hear bad music?"

@Esauofisaac Жыл бұрын

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

@uwuuwu2784 4 жыл бұрын

It’s almost sounds like a bunch of people singing under the road and playing the trumpet

@TheBearWithOrangeFur 4 жыл бұрын

That’s what they’re not telling you! 🤔

@jclondonl6332 4 жыл бұрын

The sound of the lost souls of the dead workers under the road

@joeproud6885 4 жыл бұрын

It sounds like your username?

@ratcrusher6863 4 жыл бұрын

Uwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwu

@demigod3088 4 жыл бұрын

uwu stfu

@lukasartinger 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine getting caught speeding there: "Sir, you've been going a minor third too fast..."

@nzredwolf4048 2 жыл бұрын

"Sir, you were going allegro in an andante zone.."

@capt.heinrich6945 2 жыл бұрын

"Sir, you were going vivace at a school zone"

@LyonsTheMad 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@ComradeToeKnee 2 жыл бұрын

@@LyonsTheMad r/theydidthemath

@nathanielpillar8012 2 жыл бұрын

@@ComradeToeKnee or they pretended to, knowing we are too lazy to check it.

@barriath8841 Жыл бұрын

0:30 wtf? xDDD That sounded so damn creepy xD

@MillerMeteor74 6 ай бұрын

A couple days ago I watched a video of someone driving a musical road that sounded just fine. It was in Palmdale.

@bukachell 3 жыл бұрын

Expectation: fun music Reality: *demonic summoning ritual*

@ioiaxopanel3652 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine driving at midnight not knowing and get jump scared by a mf road 💀

@tevildo9383 3 жыл бұрын

Listen to it at .25 speed

@TXnine7nine 3 жыл бұрын

You summon demons by going over it in reverse. 👹

@yaraelpoof7242 3 жыл бұрын

Jeremy clackson did that once on a episode of top gear you need to look it up if you haven’t already

@gullysl 3 жыл бұрын

Not making it go to 667

@illuminatefox9044 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@user-ze8fr9tr3h 3 жыл бұрын

There's one in Eastern Europe that sounds genuinely nice, though I can't remember which country it was Edit: Hungary. It's on KZfaq.

@0beset0ads 3 жыл бұрын

one in japan look up mt fuji song road it sounds like this sorts but better

@daggern15 2 жыл бұрын

There's one in New Mexico

@Cybersawz 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe, three times a charm.

@connormcnulty6377 2 жыл бұрын

Some EU countries are putting their national anthems in the road so you know you've crossed a border.

@Skoell1983 9 ай бұрын

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.

@zzjimmai59 Жыл бұрын

0:09 this music is a kind that makes you want to do thing faster. Not clever choice for a driving limitation.

@saucylegs 4 жыл бұрын

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

@SeanvanBerlo 4 жыл бұрын

America

@ThatNextbit 4 жыл бұрын

K moby

@TeaMMatE11 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@captainbarbossa5325 4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@indigocharles7445 4 жыл бұрын

Closed for filming

@_vla 4 жыл бұрын

Bruh they placed the wrong blocks under the noteblocks bruh.

@me-eh1zt 4 жыл бұрын

GabeN_____ Studio 😔✊

@charmin6657 4 жыл бұрын

Bruh

@elferson 4 жыл бұрын

Bruh

@ninjaandocean3345 4 жыл бұрын

Bruh

@yonatanschlussel 4 жыл бұрын

Bruh

@Barbacito Жыл бұрын

I almost fell off my chair laughing when I found out this very piece of road was also driven over backwards by Jeremy Clarkson seeking if it would "send a message from the devil" 😂😂 he concluded it did, and it was that "Paul McCartney's dead because he didn't wear any shoes or socks"

@ianbattles7290 5 ай бұрын

"No Patrick, a highway is not an instrument."

@mickflo6885 2 жыл бұрын

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

@MrT------5743 2 жыл бұрын

Confused cause you didn't read the road signs explaining what is about to happen?

@andynonymous6769 2 жыл бұрын

@@MrT------5743 probably a little preoccupied or just didn't care to

@jammylynnolandria5354 2 жыл бұрын

aaaaaahhhh 666 likes

@kishascape 2 жыл бұрын

@@andynonymous6769 ahh California people.

@SajtosNokedli 2 жыл бұрын

Keep right next time

@alexnasiadka5140 6 жыл бұрын

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

@taternugget9692 5 жыл бұрын

In that case I'll just walk.

@izabellasonier7444 5 жыл бұрын

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

@uselesswifi9840 5 жыл бұрын

Thx for the nightmares

@GR2dot71GORY 5 жыл бұрын

Also, it's always shittyfluted, because of the grooves being too wide.

@zperk13 5 жыл бұрын

I laughed so hard at this. I made a noise I've never made before ROFLMAO

@isaackingvideos Жыл бұрын

0:14 POV: It's the 1940s and you hear this music comming from Germany

@Aashishkebab Жыл бұрын

I like how there's nobody else on the road.

@asharahmed1966 4 жыл бұрын

These engineers are freakin casuals. Wrong ticks set on the repeaters

@cfdeers 4 жыл бұрын

they also used regular torches instead of redstone torches

@matthewb9932 4 жыл бұрын

@@cfdeers If someone actually did that it would be very depressing

@renebyjose8888 4 жыл бұрын

Bruh i dont even know how to use those

@CalculatorGuides 4 жыл бұрын

And not using 0 ticks for the noteblocks hurt me

@natchu96 4 жыл бұрын

The real problem is that they rebuilt it one more time and it was somehow still wrong...

@gpcaraudio 6 жыл бұрын

Sounds like an elephant running from a mouse while choking on a peanut

@ProfessorSyndicateFranklai 6 жыл бұрын

*Underwater

@jaakko200987654321 6 жыл бұрын

Hi, fellow basshead

@gpcaraudio 6 жыл бұрын

jaakko200987654321 watts up

@ex7388 6 жыл бұрын

And how do you know what that sounds like?

@xenastar6692 6 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@PlasmaCoolantLeak Жыл бұрын

If you drive over it in reverse, you'll hear the Devil. And run into someone else.

@Ian99_ Жыл бұрын

And then you go straight to hell

@Akira-lp6jd Жыл бұрын

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?

@breadloafbrad 6 жыл бұрын

Imagine driving on that in the middle of the night

@breadloafbrad 6 жыл бұрын

SevERN K didn’t see anyone else say it, you’re acting like I care anyways

@gameslion3025 6 жыл бұрын

aahahahah

@lazrlord8687 6 жыл бұрын

Done it

@Termay1 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@shawnbrando6145 6 жыл бұрын

Done.

@arilenhart8779 4 жыл бұрын

The musical road sounds like something from the old Speed Racer soundtrack.

@andrewsssssaaa 3 жыл бұрын

Bro legit tho it sounds like a army chant

@MrHendrix17 3 жыл бұрын

He's going over that musical road.... Eeugh!

@negativezero371 3 жыл бұрын

It sounds like people having Vietnam flashbacks

@benya1738 3 жыл бұрын

There is a thing like this in hungary too

@icescoop6741 3 жыл бұрын

SuperJoself are you fine?

@murph508508 Жыл бұрын

Tom just made another one. Keep up the great work Tom!

@boedidley823 Жыл бұрын

I heard Disney have a small air strip in Disney California that plays zip-a-dee-doo-dah when aircraft land over it. Built in the 60's.

@chrisdemario2636 Жыл бұрын

I've actually driven in this road behind friends and legitimately said "WTF was that?"

@urcookin Жыл бұрын

Something unholy

@chrisdemario2636 Жыл бұрын

@@urcookin for real.

@Luffy-su1ho Жыл бұрын

It does give off horror vibes

@slslbbn4096 Жыл бұрын

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

@WhuDhat Жыл бұрын

"sorry, I just farted"

@Kobekola 3 жыл бұрын

They tried to give us background music irl. I respect that

@halinaqi2194 3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@callmeqt1269 3 жыл бұрын

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 »

@bunsenn5064 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine chilling with your family and you start to hear Sweet Home Alabama

@emdivine 2 жыл бұрын

They already did, it's radio

@nathanjordon6950 2 жыл бұрын

So music isn't real then? Aha

@leonardmatarese5934 7 ай бұрын

Some tunnels in South Korea play a musical notes. I guess to keep you alert and paying attention.

@kaymendoza3800 Жыл бұрын

This is so interesting. I’ve never heard of a musical road until now!

@au77iemark 2 жыл бұрын

The minor-ish key it has ended up in, fits the resulting sadness of the construction screw-up so well

@peoplearecrazy1798 Жыл бұрын

Wrong directions yields wrong results

@Lokiip Жыл бұрын

Architecture screw up. The construction was perfect to the design given. 4in apart and 4in on center are very different results.

@thegnugg2464 Жыл бұрын

Has that Star Fox SNES boss music going for it

@denisebethany5691 Жыл бұрын

Thats how most roads in cali are, done wrong.

@skinsdub Жыл бұрын

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

@wj8003 4 жыл бұрын

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

@noelmanning7519 4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@chriswashingtonbeats 4 жыл бұрын

This comment feels like it was written by a computer

@gabrieleporru4443 4 жыл бұрын

*demonic awakening*

@lilahdog568 4 жыл бұрын

Beat me to it

@joey19xx73 4 жыл бұрын

Dumb comment

@gabby_5820 Жыл бұрын

Expectation: William Tell Overture Reality: Screams of the Damned

@jodisco Жыл бұрын

They installed this directly next to the neighborhood I grew up n Lancaster, CA for the original commercial and when I tell you that I lost so much sleep because of this 'Musical Road'. Thanks for this video it really took me back haha

@bslothed3211 Жыл бұрын

Well aren't u a sook

@blasternick796 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@DanielSultana 5 жыл бұрын

video of original road?

@fortnitebanana9634 5 жыл бұрын

@H No No, he's asking for a video of the old road.

@decaffeinatedafrican5997 5 жыл бұрын

2:47 🤔🧐

@pyrogenix19 5 жыл бұрын

@@fortnitebanana9634 nope, new road.

@cynthiahenson3472 5 жыл бұрын

It was too close to the school aswell

@jlangevin65 2 жыл бұрын

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."

@TehButterflyEffect 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, exactly.

@killaken2000 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Nick_CF Жыл бұрын

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

@celestialtree8602 Жыл бұрын

@@Nick_CF From what I understand, the blueprints were wrong, not the crew, and they used the exact same blueprints for both.

@ghg789987 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@NoriMori1992 Жыл бұрын

I love how this video also gives us a nice demonstration of the wagon-wheel effect.

@bosshum3811 Жыл бұрын

This was fun to watch. They should definitely feature this in the biggest engineering disasters of the century 😂😂😂

@BornIn1500 6 ай бұрын

Except the road is still perfectly fine. You're being overly dramatic. It's more like a small mistake than one of the "biggest disasters"

@DrewBob_ 4 жыл бұрын

Hearing this at night would be lowkey terrifying

@jonathanmcdanal158 4 жыл бұрын

Drew Fisher *offkey terrifying

@jozune 4 жыл бұрын

Jonathan McDanal gottem

@youisstupid2586 4 жыл бұрын

Drew Fisher you’d be like “damn that ghost is out of tune”

@mrmarciniak9992 4 жыл бұрын

Why am i hearing boss music?

@Bread-vy4tl 6 жыл бұрын

Imagine driving there in the middle of the night

@yaboij8964 6 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@Hezis 6 жыл бұрын

what about while cooked 😂

@yoursnape9135 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@msg5359 6 жыл бұрын

You must be Einstein +Your Snape How did you ever figure that out?

@paolopascual2762 6 жыл бұрын

Your Snape im pretty sure its not just on europe -_-

@prjndigo Жыл бұрын

In order for people, who are 2 feet wide, to be 6 feet apart... the tape on the floor needs to be on 8 foot centers. One would think that word problems aren't that difficult but then we also have doctorates of astrophysics who think gravity comes from the center of mass.

@LordSnoodles Жыл бұрын

Good video making. Short, to the point, well written and explained, and entertaining. This one made me think of the much worse (but likely not as interesting) "wave organ" in San Francisco, that is supposed to be "musical" but in fact is just glorified amplification of seawater sloshing around in a tube.

@visualsofvivek 3 жыл бұрын

Why nobody is saying anything about how empty the whole road is.

@rockinrobin 3 жыл бұрын

to avoid that hideous music

@KS-dk9cd 3 жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking! This huge six-lane road is completely empty. So strange.

@timtebow777 3 жыл бұрын

its in the middle of a desert

@rizensuarez7034 3 жыл бұрын

The whole road is empty. There, I said it.

@cutienerdgirl 3 жыл бұрын

The road is in the middle of the dessert.

@hazmat3078 6 жыл бұрын

1927: We will have flying cars in future. 2018: *musical road*

@oKingsWild 5 жыл бұрын

2018: *that doesn't work, that we screwed up twice*

@j.w6872 5 жыл бұрын

I legit was scrolling down looking for this comment...

@yxngjaden6496 5 жыл бұрын

Dark Joker 🃏

@Milky-gr7hz 5 жыл бұрын

at least the musical road is creative

@6ftvnderrr 5 жыл бұрын

Wait where there even cars in 1927

@Calxero 6 ай бұрын

POV: you're speeding over the musical road in your Audi and instead of hearing william tell overture you hear kerosene:

@erikkeever3504 Жыл бұрын

"... So the city paved over it, and rebuilt it, to the exact same wrong specification." Oh COME ON.

@shubmakes 6 жыл бұрын

Drive at 250mph, you'll hear Rap God - but just for 1 second.

@kyreerobinson7201 6 жыл бұрын

Shubham Kushwah lmao

@sandtrap175 6 жыл бұрын

Shubham Kushwah wow, you must have a VERY fast car.

@ante. 6 жыл бұрын

Zachary Ricks tesla roadster

@Juan-vn9fn 6 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂👍🏻

@collegeyc3428 6 жыл бұрын

Zachary Ricks verry fast, verry clean

@villanelle169 4 жыл бұрын

WHAT THE HELL, WE HAVE A MUSICAL ROAD IN OUR CITY AND I DIDNT KNOW THIS LMAO

@justcallmeteacup4711 4 жыл бұрын

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 😂

@OfficialChickenJoe 4 жыл бұрын

U didn’t know 😂

@6_xn 4 жыл бұрын

Villanelle state*

@villanelle169 4 жыл бұрын

@@6_xn hate to break it to you, Lancaster is a city. Not a state.

@dylancampbell8671 4 жыл бұрын

Seriously, you didnt know? I think it's off Avenue D and like 30th west

@ZoofyZoof Жыл бұрын

"It isn't even hard to do this and here's exactly why" Damn

@datboidego Жыл бұрын

You would think spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for a small project like this that they would quadruple check everything

@polarjet1833 4 жыл бұрын

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

@julk1732 3 жыл бұрын

@Dinosaur Kira yes...every road should have that

@sword7166 3 жыл бұрын

Would that be a... Rick Road?

@ak26k 3 жыл бұрын

@@sword7166 that physically hurt . . .Soo bad yet Soo good XD

@userrichkid225 3 жыл бұрын

We should put the song "shawty's like a melody in my head"

@ak26k 3 жыл бұрын

@@userrichkid225 you mean replay by iyaz?

@charliefoxtrot5490 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine driving that road in wrong way to know how it sounds backwards

@bbeaulieu78 4 жыл бұрын

yungxrist Cops: Are we a joke to you?

@CONGTHEGUERILLA 4 жыл бұрын

Yung christ is divine let em fall into line let the planets align as they build me a shrine

@NovaGamer213 4 жыл бұрын

That’s called a retrograde

@zoranernjakovic7247 4 жыл бұрын

CJ $uicideBoy$?

@theknife5535 4 жыл бұрын

@@zoranernjakovic7247 yea it's from Exodus

@dubious_donut Жыл бұрын

it was really weird seeing something in a tom scott video that i can take a 10 minute drive to see

@pingu6338 Жыл бұрын

They unconsciously developed a dubstep road

@tv0hgod63 6 жыл бұрын

You know he’s smart because his accent

@MrRedeyedJedi 6 жыл бұрын

tv0hgod middle class British are smart.

@authorofone 6 жыл бұрын

MrRedeyedJedi um I have a friend who is also middle class English and is the most brain-dead person I've ever met

@rolypoly5642 6 жыл бұрын

hahahaha yeah

@aaronmicalowe 6 жыл бұрын

Obviously hasn't heard of the upper class twit.

@wyatthart11 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah for everything except politics.

@waterdrinkerrr 3 жыл бұрын

the musical road gives me everywhere at the end of time vibes

@krosskancelvlogs 3 жыл бұрын

lmao same

@annapaula290 3 жыл бұрын

Oof

@pauljones6723 3 жыл бұрын

Please no, don't remind me

@altersam7026 3 жыл бұрын

;-;

@employee962 3 жыл бұрын

*wHEn tHe rOaD iS MuSiCAl*

@13DeadEyeRonin38 Жыл бұрын

Imagine this... You're on a road trip, it's dark out at night. You are in the back seat while your parent drives and your sibling is sitting with you. You then hear this demonic song. Nightmare fuel

@VirgilSonofSparda Жыл бұрын

You hear that and it means the California car crawler has spotted you

@sourclout4693 5 жыл бұрын

It would be better if it played africa by Toto

@Sunny-vb2dd 5 жыл бұрын

Like the video Chris Kogos made

@fernandocontreras4981 5 жыл бұрын

I bless the rains down in Africa

@pleaseenteraname6825 5 жыл бұрын

Sourclout BLESS THE RAINS DOWN IN AFRIKAaaaaAaaAaAaaAaaAAaAaAaA

@annapaula290 5 жыл бұрын

And have it sound like some demonic song? No, thanks

@johnedison 5 жыл бұрын

By pitbull??

@333ryansmith 6 жыл бұрын

try it at double the speed it sounds better

@lilcherry1576 6 жыл бұрын

Ryan Smith please leave I’ve seen you way too many times

@andrewlarson5621 6 жыл бұрын

So bassically drive two times faster

@realname9278 6 жыл бұрын

I’ve seen you everywhere

@samb.6579 6 жыл бұрын

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

@michaelymuffins3894 6 жыл бұрын

Sam B. No

@CrisWhetstone Жыл бұрын

There are grooves like that along lots of out of town highways. I assume to keep people from running off the road if they are almost asleep. Of course I used them to awaken my sleeping, hungover friends coming back from Vegas several times.