Re: Santa list?
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 7:35 pm
Elfin safety joke there . . .
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GTR1400MAN wrote: these jackets also glow under street lighting.
Horse wrote:Glow? How's that work then?
Horse wrote:http://assets.highways.gov.uk/specialist-information/knowledge-compendium/2009-11-knowledge-programme/Combined_Conspicuity_Final_Report_Complete.pdf
ancient wrote:With correctly functioning headlights (which I have) and attention to what is in my planned path, I can see completely unlit objects in dark matt colours in good time to not drive into them.
Gareth wrote:ancient wrote:With correctly functioning headlights (which I have) and attention to what is in my planned path, I can see completely unlit objects in dark matt colours in good time to not drive into them.
It's all very well but, when you throw an oncoming motor vehicle into the mix, then it's bloody hard to see those pedestrians unless there is some odd light movement to catch the eye.
ancient wrote: By "seen earlier" I meant that they are processed as part of the scene. That is what I was trying to get at when comparing them to road furniture. HiViz does look like road signs - especially when not particularly paying attention (i.e. not 'wondering what that is' for everything in the path of the vehicle). Road signs need no particular avoidance plan, the way something in the road would, so HiViz may get dismissed as 'no threat - nothing to do'. Looking like road furniture in the distance is not necessarily a way to be "conspicuous", although more light does reach the drivers' eyes from the HiViz - so they are 'seen'.
Gareth wrote: I wondered about "particularly since low-beam headlamps will not effectively illuminate retro-reflective material on a jacket" given that low beams effectively illuminate road signs - is this point more to do with what drivers are or aren't looking for, and maybe what they perceive, rather than anything else?
ancient wrote: my understanding that HiViz does not give an increase in safety that would be expected by anyone using 'common sense'.
GTR1400MAN wrote: Well, like the one you mentioned of waiting in a side road to exit
GTR1400MAN wrote: How about sat a T-junction on an unlit B road waiting to turn and the vehicle is approaching from behind at speed? I'll be seen earlier.
GTR1400MAN wrote: Or crossing a RAB with a vehicle coming from the left. etc.
GTR1400MAN wrote: just making me 'bigger' in a head on approach can't be a bad thing.
GTR1400MAN wrote: Load of marketing mumbo jumbo. Not really sure what they are trying to convey.