I admire the Japanese for many things… their technological prowess, their ability to produce most of the worlds electronics and of course, their ninjas. But sometimes they do things that we Americans just have to shake our heads at. Heaven knows I wouldn’t ever want to be trapped in a room with a single tv showing Japanese game shows.

Take, for example, the “invention” in the video below. Some enterprising individual in Japans department of transportation was able to take something that seems to be a mundane safety apparatus and turn it into something amazing. Although I can’t say that I’d want to drive on this road any more than once. I’m not a real fan of headaches.

As you can hear, they’ve modified a road with musical “safety grooves”. Here in the US we use these grooves to notify sleep deprived travelers that they should probably turn the music up a bit more, but in Japan they’d rather just use the grooves and cut out the radio altogether.

AWESOME-A-POWA!!!