TPadden
Tom Padden
On the flip side .........regarding high-viz... where it is useful to be seen.
Not a big believer at all in High-Viz colors; no such thing as being seen without recognition; you are still invisible. Nothing works (neither loud colors nor loud pipes) as well as defensive and foresighted riding.
When I was working as a LEO my city did a year long study and looked at all the then current studies concerning high viz colors. They then painted all the cities safety vehicles high viz fluorescent colors. Traffic accidents increased, no one yielded or got out of the way of cop cars, ambulances, or fire engines, with lights and sirens blaring. Three years later they looked at the data and re-painted the Cop cars black and white and fire engines red.
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