Why California's musical road sounds terrible
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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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
XD
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.....
*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*
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.
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 😂
【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
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
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 ...
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?''
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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).
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
"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.
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 “wrong” version sounded like a 1940s dramatic movie when the bad guys attack
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
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?
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
Ok question, why don’t they just rebuild it a third time?
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.
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
Ye
@kawaiiwaste
5 жыл бұрын
or some "modern" north korean propaganda
@killx5546
5 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 😄
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.
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.
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
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
This is why you always keep the engineer and the constructor in the same room when designing the thing.
"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?
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
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?"
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
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
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.
0:30 wtf? xDDD That sounded so damn creepy xD
A couple days ago I watched a video of someone driving a musical road that sounded just fine. It was in Palmdale.
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
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 KZread.
@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.
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.
0:09 this music is a kind that makes you want to do thing faster. Not clever choice for a driving limitation.
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
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
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"
0:14 POV: It's the 1940s and you hear this music comming from Germany
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
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
"No Patrick, a highway is not an instrument."
I like how there's nobody else on the road.
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...
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
😂😂😂
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
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?
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.
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?
Tom just made another one. Keep up the great work Tom!
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.
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"
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
Some tunnels in South Korea play a musical notes. I guess to keep you alert and paying attention.
This is so interesting. I’ve never heard of a musical road until now!
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
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
Expectation: William Tell Overture Reality: Screams of the Damned
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
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
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.
I love how this video also gives us a nice demonstration of the wagon-wheel effect.
This was fun to watch. They should definitely feature this in the biggest engineering disasters of the century 😂😂😂
@BornIn1500
5 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"
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?
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 -_-
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.
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.
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.
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
POV: you're speeding over the musical road in your Audi and instead of hearing william tell overture you hear kerosene:
"... So the city paved over it, and rebuilt it, to the exact same wrong specification." Oh COME ON.
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
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
"It isn't even hard to do this and here's exactly why" Damn
You would think spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for a small project like this that they would quadruple check everything
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?
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
it was really weird seeing something in a tom scott video that i can take a 10 minute drive to see
They unconsciously developed a dubstep road
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.
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*
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
You hear that and it means the California car crawler has spotted you
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??
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
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.
You wake up at night after a nightmare, you choose to watch this KZread video and hear that noise
0:15 play it at 2.0x and you can finally hear some similarities to the original song.
@slapdatbutton8931
5 жыл бұрын
We need to break speed limits to hear the original huh?
@finnkerby-pinguet7111
5 жыл бұрын
The ends justifies the means
@HaXD1209
5 жыл бұрын
POWERRRRRRRRRRR
@frealms
5 жыл бұрын
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.
@devins7457
5 жыл бұрын
No cars, no inlets, music road, thats a good excuse officer.
You need a Bugatti Chiron to hear the music.
@rommelwhiting6127
5 жыл бұрын
Those are too loud you need a Tesla roadster and you’ll hear it even louder
@bmhater1283
5 жыл бұрын
Lmao how about the Lambo?
@brayancortez3212
5 жыл бұрын
Isak Chico Felipe Cayetano Lopez Martinez y u mean the Koenigseeg Regera?
@crazywindows88
5 жыл бұрын
tesla roadster with rocket
@Mirage16605
5 жыл бұрын
You just have to hit 160\ 170 most regular sports cars can hit that just fine with a tune
Roadplaner: "This will sound like classical music" Roard:
Hell nah. Driving down a dark road at night with little to no sleep and all of a sudden you hear boss music would be terrifying