User talk:ErikBThomsen

Musical road – removal of incorrect information
Musical roads are streches of roads with either grooves or raised pavement markers that make wheels and vehicles vibrate with a frequency, depending on the spatial interval of the grooves or markers, and the speed of the wheel. A very common claim is that the occupants of a car can hear a melody "when the car is moving at the correct speed". Given that this is Wikipedia, a large collection of facts, can we please keep this nonsense out of the "Musical road" article? One example from the Wikipedia article "Musical road":

Given that a select few people are blessed with absolute pitch, the majority of drivers wouldn't be able to tell the correct speed from the pitch of the melody. If the speed is increased by just 5.9 %, the key of the melody will be just one semitone higher. The melody will be recognizable at a wide range of speeds, making a musical road a poor alternative to a speedometer.

My point is that the melody can also be heard and recognized if a vehicle is moving faster or slower than the speed limit, so such claims as in the quote should be removed from the article.

Please do not take offense at my sarcasm. ErikBThomsen (talk) 22:53, 12 August 2023 (UTC)