Ring Tones for Cars

It’s occurred to me that I haven’t been superficial enough recently etc, so I thought I’d write down a series of thoughts about ring-tones for cars. Because people have been talking about this recently – on account of electric cars being completely silent, so you won’t know they’re coming unless you look both ways before you cross the road.

1) I saw this on my fav website Notcot.org yesterday:

2) and it reminded me of those musical roads they have in Korea.

and Japan.

3) The whole notion of quiet cars needing to make noise, reminds me of The Locomotives Act of 1865, in which the law stated that someone with a flag had to walk in front of a motor vehicle to protect the roads and the public from injury… or maybe it was because the people passing the law had interests in the rail industry, and wanted to control cars. I’d say the latter… knowing what we know today etc.

Still… 150 years later, cars have killed more people than all other weapons in human history put together. Probably.

4) Some people already have ring-tones… massive bass-speakers that are so loud that they cause your trousers to rustle from 3 blocks away.

5) Have you noticed how the more someone spends on a car stereo, the worse their taste in music is?

6) There’s going to be wankers aren’t there? I just know it – someone’s going to use “Born to be Wild” or “The Ride of The Valkyries”. I imagine that what is cool/not will coalesce out very quickly – although this doesn’t seem to have had much effect with phone ringtones.

7) But if everyone who drives an electric car is one of your Tofu-Types they’ll probably play… I don’t know… what sort of music to Tofu-Types listen to? Whale noises? They’ll probably not go for music at all and go for something natural – like the sound of a wind-farm. Which would be funny because it would annoy the people who didn’t want a wind-farm in their back-yards because of the noise they make. Now look at them… they’ve got tofu-types in the back yard instead, LOL.

8) Personally I’d go for some sort of 70s sci-fi noise – the car noise of Logan’s run for example – from back in the day when all English actors/actresses were posh and gorgeous

9) But you never know what people are going to do – I mean someone has taken a little bit of film of a Logan’s Run Robot, looped it, and put it up on youtube… and it’s been seen about 30,000 times. Probably by the same person. That’s a bit odd if you ask me.

10) Speaking of which – back in about 81, there was this kid who had made a tape of the video game below and used to wander round town with it playing on a MASSIVE ghetto-blaster… and it did seem quite cool, weirdly enough.

Maori kids were geniuses at this game. The could get up to like the thousandth level – I could never get past 3 or 4. The kid who wandered around with the ghetto blaster was a Maori kid. It was like a ring-tone for walking and being cool etc.