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42: Giant concrete balls

Lateral with Tom Scott

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The Importance of Rumble Strips

The first road in the Philippines to be tarmac or something. It was a stony road. That wouldn't be a low rumbling in different locations. My head is stuck on the musical road that I filmed at once where it has particular grooves in the road and it plays a tune very badly as you drive over it. But that's not the sort of thing that moves around. Was it some kind of protest organized by people? It was not a protest. You did the eyebrow thing. Well, I was just thinking that would be an interesting way to protest. Like, oh, you know, raise them in one wage. The rumble strips everywhere. No, they're

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