On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:41:10 +0000 (UTC), <david.clement@verizon.net>
wrote:
>
> Years ago I read an article on some research that was done regarding what
> makes
> people visable to other drivers. It was found that a light pulsing at 4
> cycles
> per second would effect your subconsious drawing your attention to it and
> it
> was basically not possible to ignore. The article went on to say that
> pulsing
> the headlight between 80 and 100% power was all that was needed. At the
> time
> the pulsing seemed to make sense but I was skeptical that 80 to 100% was
> enough
> of a variation to work. Some time latter I was driving down a long
> straight
> section of two lane road when all of a sudden something caught my
> attention. I
> staired down the road for a second or two before the motorcyle that was
> approaching from the other direction was close enough that I could pick
> it out
> of the background and could actually see the slight pulsing in the
> brightness
> of the headlight.
Along a similar note, the reason some firetrucks are painted that light
neon green is because that color is highly visble. Then it was decided that
it was too distracting to other drivers and alot of fire companies stopped
purchasing their vehicles in that color. Not that I have an opinion either
way. Just thought I share it.
-- -Droo
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