Timeline for Safety vest: is an all-reflective one fine?
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| Feb 14, 2022 at 9:27 | vote | accept | KeyboardCat | ||
| Feb 10, 2022 at 22:44 | comment | added | Mark | @Bicifriend, I thought I'd localize the bicycle as being a quarter-mile away. It wasn't until I got close enough for my headlights to light up the rider's clothing that I realized I was wrong. | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 19:06 | comment | added | Bicifriend | You can see a blinking red light a long way off. You won't fail to notice it before 20m distance unless you're not focused while driving. It's disconcerting how many people say they swerve their cars to avoid hazards, instead of properly slowing down and assessing the whole situation. | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 0:14 | comment | added | Mark | @Bicifriend, because I'd just pinpointed the hazard as being twenty feet ahead of me rather than the quarter-mile away I'd thought it was. Wearing black clothing and riding a black bicycle at night may look rather stylish, but it's also nearly impossible to see from any distance, and a blinking red light doesn't give any useful distance cues. | |
| Feb 6, 2022 at 15:49 | comment | added | Carel | When wet, the silvery stuff tends to be no longer reflective. They are made of tiny hemispheric lenses on silvery underlying material. Water fills the 'valleys' and the lens-effect is thus annihilated. | |
| Feb 5, 2022 at 21:20 | comment | added | Chris H | I've just bought an all-reflective jacket and found the same. And and this time of year one commute can be pitch dark, the other drizzly and dimly lit - just enough light that some cars don't have their lights on | |
| Feb 5, 2022 at 19:03 | comment | added | Bicifriend | Swerving to avoid a hazard you can't pinpoint seems like a dangerous mistake, to me. Why would you do that instead of slowing down and scanning more carefully? | |
| Feb 5, 2022 at 2:02 | comment | added | Mark | As a driver, I greatly prefer riders with reflective vests to either lights or on-bicycle reflectors. They're much easier to spot and track. (Blinking lights are my least favorite: I might be able to see that there's a bicycle somewhere ahead of me from a half-mile away, but I might not figure out where until just before I swerve to avoid a collision.) | |
| Feb 4, 2022 at 15:16 | history | answered | Michael | CC BY-SA 4.0 |