Hi Vis - Difference Between Yellow and Orange

[Lance Dopestrong]

Yellow is believed to be not so conspicuous in a rural setting against a green background of grass and trees, hence Lowland and Mountain rescue use orange, or sometimes garments with a split of orange and yellow.

Very little research has been done into casualty reduction as a result of hi vis use. The biggest study was by the DoT, as it was then, on road workers, not cyclists. It showed no reduction in casualty rate as a consequence of compulsory hi vis use.

Its funny how times change. I am a recently retired police sergeant, and its been a very long time indeed since so called traffic duty was considered elite. These days its regarded as dogsbody shift work within the job, and sometimes recruitment can be challenging as a consequence. It doesn't help that if a villain dies during a pursuit the CPS are likely to charge the poor bobby with causing death by dangerous driving. Being put before a Court for simply doing your job is a pretty good disincentive.

[thirdcrank]

My own corporate memory dates from 1967 and I can remember now things from that time with a clarity which is not matched by what I remember of the things that have happened since I retired in 1997. I can't source things like my comment about Saturn Yellow but I state them as facts as officially recorded at that time.

I used the word "élite" after some thought - "specialist" might have been technically more accurate, but at a time when few police officers ever saw the inside of a police car, "motor patrol" was an élite. The introduction of panda cars changed everything in a very short time. I already had a driving licence and within four months of returning from police training centre I took a driving test and collected my flat cap, to the understandable annoyance of older colleagues who were still patrolling on the instrument of medieval torture colloquially known as a "noddy bike" the Velocette. And around that time, traffic men got their coveted white tops.

I've grumbled about the collapse of traffic policing often on here (and I was never in the traffic dept.)

[Psamathe]

Yellow is believed to be not so conspicuous in a rural setting against a green background of grass and trees.....

Gets even worse when you are cycling past field after field of flowering oil rape seed.

Ian

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Depends on the background. Orange isn't any good in Utah

[Lance Dopestrong]

Brilliant picture irc.