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bright colors make us safer?
Do any of you know of any evidence that bright colors make us safer?
Some thoughts on color and safety from an officer of a cycling club: "It may seem intuitively obvious that brighter colors would be more visible than darker colors to drivers of cars and trucks. I am not certain that there is any scientific evidence that wearing a brighter color reduces the likelihood of a cyclist getting hit. Are some colors better than others? Everything I have seen is anecdotal. So, while a brighter jersey maymake you feel better, it may not make you any safer." |
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Frank Knox wrote:
Do any of you know of any evidence that bright colors make us safer? Some thoughts on color and safety from an officer of a cycling club: "It may seem intuitively obvious that brighter colors would be more visible than darker colors to drivers of cars and trucks. I am not certain that there is any scientific evidence that wearing a brighter color reduces the likelihood of a cyclist getting hit. Are some colors better than others? Everything I have seen is anecdotal. So, while a brighter jersey maymake you feel better, it may not make you any safer." Oh, great. Now's there's gonna be a run on gray-beige jerseys and shorts. And blinkies??? -- BS (no, really) |
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Frank Knox wrote: Do any of you know of any evidence that bright colors make us safer? I know when I am driving my car during the day, cyclists in neon colored jerseys are much easier to see. Cyclists wearing dark colors can be almost invisible on a shaded forest road or in cloudy or rainy weather. At night, bright lights are more important than bright jerseys. I don't know of any formal accident statistics, or if that is even possible. |
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You don't think that seeing a rider on the road will help avoid accidents?
I'd say there has to be some corralation between accident rates and visibility. Besides, there has to be some study out there that proves or disproves this. Have you checked the DOT? "Frank Knox" wrote in message ... Do any of you know of any evidence that bright colors make us safer? Some thoughts on color and safety from an officer of a cycling club: "It may seem intuitively obvious that brighter colors would be more visible than darker colors to drivers of cars and trucks. I am not certain that there is any scientific evidence that wearing a brighter color reduces the likelihood of a cyclist getting hit. Are some colors better than others? Everything I have seen is anecdotal. So, while a brighter jersey maymake you feel better, it may not make you any safer." |
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"Frank Knox" wrote in message
... Do any of you know of any evidence that bright colors make us safer? Some thoughts on color and safety from an officer of a cycling club: "It may seem intuitively obvious that brighter colors would be more visible than darker colors to drivers of cars and trucks. I am not certain that there is any scientific evidence that wearing a brighter color reduces the likelihood of a cyclist getting hit. Are some colors better than others? Everything I have seen is anecdotal. So, while a brighter jersey maymake you feel better, it may not make you any safer." "Mike" wrote in message .. . You don't think that seeing a rider on the road will help avoid accidents? I'd say there has to be some corralation between accident rates and visibility. Besides, there has to be some study out there that proves or disproves this. Have you checked the DOT? Yes, checked the DOT. Also, tried hard to find such info on the net. |
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Frank Knox wrote:
"Frank Knox" wrote in message ... Do any of you know of any evidence that bright colors make us safer? Some thoughts on color and safety from an officer of a cycling club: "It may seem intuitively obvious that brighter colors would be more visible than darker colors to drivers of cars and trucks. I am not certain that there is any scientific evidence that wearing a brighter color reduces the likelihood of a cyclist getting hit. Are some colors better than others? Everything I have seen is anecdotal. So, while a brighter jersey maymake you feel better, it may not make you any safer." "Mike" wrote in message .. . You don't think that seeing a rider on the road will help avoid accidents? I'd say there has to be some corralation between accident rates and visibility. Besides, there has to be some study out there that proves or disproves this. Have you checked the DOT? Yes, checked the DOT. Also, tried hard to find such info on the net. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sullivan/bike/colorbv.html is another opinion on color. I know that when emergency vehicles are painted that chartreuse color it is supposed to be the most "attractive" color to the human eye and would assume that goes along with being noticed. The principal of blinking lights is also operating on the premises of being seen. |
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"Frank Knox" wrote in message ... Do any of you know of any evidence that bright colors make us safer? Let's do an experiment. Who wants to be one of the subjects that wears black? Please go ride 5000 miles and report back in a year. Thank you. RichC |
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"Mike" wrote in message .. . You don't think that seeing a rider on the road will help avoid accidents? Who knows, maybe the accident-reduction of bright colors is offset by injuries inflicted by hostile drivers who aim at bikes, or drunks who tend to steer towards the brightest object in their field of view. RichC |
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"Frank Knox" wrote in message ... Do any of you know of any evidence that bright colors make us safer? What you really should be asking is if more brightly coloured helmets reduce head injuries. *ducking* -- 'We'll be singing, when we're winning: I get knocked down But I get up again You're never gonna keep me down.' -chumbawamba |
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Works for me. The point is to gather attention well before cars get
to you. I don't know if it works in heavy traffic, but when it's isolated it's good to let the dozing driver know that something's way up ahead there, many many seconds before he really has to notice it. I guy on a bike wearing a brown jacket and jeans is pretty invisible against trees or in shade until cars are almost on top of him. That said, the best color is white; and unless you only cycle in the day, non-dayglow. Dayglow relies on UV, which it reradiates in the visible spectrum, thereby looking bright. But there's no UV in headlights. (There's lots in twilight though, which is where dayglow really shines.) So anyway, in the winter, I wear a white sweatshirt and sweatpants, which works against almost every background, except snow when we have that. I have a dayglow slow-moving-vehicle triangle on the back of the milk crate, which catches the daytime duty. Sweatshirt for night. -- Ron Hardin On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
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