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Old April 5th 18, 07:04 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Sepp Ruf
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Default High visibility law yields no improvement in safety

jbeattie wrote:
On Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 2:25:50 AM UTC-7, Sepp Ruf wrote:
Frank Krygowski wrote:


We shouldn't be telling people they have to change clothes before
they ride a bike, just as we shouldn't be telling people they need
to change clothes before going for a walk.


Instead, maybe we should send jbeattie to mullah-land for some
attention training. Consulting an ophthalmologist there is cheaper
than in Portland, too.


At least mullah-land has bright sun. When you go outside and everything
is cement colored, including the sky -- and your eyes are doing that
switch from cones to rods -- someone in cement and asphalt colors blends
right in, particularly when coming down a descending road with the road
surface as a back drop -- and particularly with wet pavement and
headlight glare or light glare from other sources on the road.


Agreed. Still, once you are aware of these pitfalls (and of a population of
cycling dopeheads), you are obliged to adjust your behavior to account for
them. Even if it means moving slower than other traffic and waiting longer
to check for subtle clues of ninja movement.

And at
night, pedestrians in all black might as well be invisible. Why be
invisible? I'm no DRL fan, but I use a blinky when there is hard
over-cast and low light.


Oregon's law seems quite close to a DRL law already in demanding that one
switches on a bike light during conditions in which one cannot discern a
vehicle or a person -- certainly including a mourning, one-armed midget, on
a skateboard, on black asphalt -- from a full 1,000ft distance.
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