More on Japanese surprises

Didn’t I tell you that Japanese never stop surprising me? Here is the latest:

At last, bored Japanese drivers have a way to amuse themselves. Engineers from Hokkaido have created roads with grooves at varying intervals, which produce a series of ‘notes’ as cars pass over them. It could even help cut speeding — the tunes apparently sound best at 45 kilometres per hour.

Who could ever have thought of that?

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