Improving road safety, the musical way

Now pedestrian crossings might not always make roads safer, so here is a possible way to do it with music:

Here’s a bit more on the background to what Japan has done with musical roads:

The system was the brainchild of Shizuo Shinoda, who accidentally scraped some markings into a road with a bulldozer before driving over them and realising that they helped to produce a variety of tones. [The Guardian]

This isn’t an idea restricted to Japan. Here is the William Tell Overture from the US:

Fun, and hopefully effective.