Submitted 3 weeks ago by IamNobuddy@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.utubepublisher.in/2025/01/Musical-road-in-hungary.html
Seems like an interesting way to get people to slow down (people will want to time the melody not just hear a sudden clash of notes), but it’s a bit irritating to see an AI-generated article being posted here.
It’s frustrating to read this, it’s so repetitive and verbose, like a student trying to pad out their homework to meet a word count.
this person is only linking to articles from that website, so they’re probably trying to promote their AI slop in order to get more ad revenue
This is atrocious for tire consumption and wear. Which tires are one of the top major contributors to pollution.
Can’t watch the video right now; does this one get the frequencies right? Unlike the one in California that Tom Scott featured in a video?
It’s a different song that I don’t recognize, but it does sound correct for whatever it’s trying to be, if that makes sense
It’s a well known Hungarian song from the 90s, “Route 67”, the joke is it’s painted on the actual route 67.
Video from the article: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM5oX0KbtUw
This is the original song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE4aAQCghGs
Here is a translation of thelyrics: queensbookasylum.com/…/music-monday-67-es-ut-road…
This is hardly anything new or groundbreaking?
Groundgrooving.
Can it ball wonderground?
Do they play Russian anthem?
There are a number of roads like this in Japan as well.
There’s on in New Mexico that plays America the Beautiful.
i imagine this would be fun once when novel and then very irritating every other time
infeeeee@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
There are 3 musical roads in Hungary now, but they exist because you can steal EU/government funds with them easily. You can invoice much higher prices if you add extras like these.
Locals who live nearby hate them, and they are lobbying for removal. You hear the melody if only one car is playing the song. If multiple cars on the painting you just hear some cacophony. Here is a guy recording next to the road, you can see it can get annoying very quickly: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5AxAc1W6qk
Local joke party placed musical road signs on some very bad quality roads, but with metal song titles, like this:
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primemagnus@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
This is basically tying every immobilizer or alarm to a car horn. Now all you hear is horns all fucking day and night because every car has one.
If I lived near one there is no way that road would exist for more than a week. Things like this should be banned, in perpetuity.
Whoever came up with the concept should not be allowed to make further decisions in life.
infeeeee@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
They tried to place them as far from villages as possible for the first one. You can see in the video, the guy had to bike to the middle of nowhere to record it. The problem first appeared in countrywide news after the 3rd one, because that’s much more closer to some residential buildings.
Hungary is not a classic democracy, if you are not a friend of a local oligarch you can’t really do anything about things like this. If they decided about it at the HQ it will happen whatever it takes.
I think the original concept is not inherently bad, you just need careful planning and sound simulations. Current tech can simulate sound waves very precisely. Maybe such a small country doesnt need 3 of these, they should have stopped after the 1st or 2nd one