Reflective (adhesive) tape

Travis

On May 31, 9:18 am, Dinsdale Pirana <Dinsd...@memento.mori.com> wrote:

> I don't think that is true anymore the tape produced these days is not
> 'flat' and reflects from many directions. Just observe the safety
> vests that road workers wear - the stripes reflect from every part you
> can see and which is definitely not all at right angles to your line
> of vision.

I think the issue is that you actually need to be sitting in the beam
of someone's lights in order for the tape to be able to reflect
anything, and furthermore that the reflection is only visible if the
observer's eyes are quite close to the light source.

Thus it will not protect you from being run over by a driver coming
out of a perpendicular intersection because you only enter into the
cone of their lights when you pass directly in front of the vehicle,
which only happens when you are moments away from being run over, and
there are many other circumstances where the angle just won't be right
for the reflector to be able to catch any light and send it toward a
driver. You need to be visible well in advance, not just appearing as
a sudden terrifying apparition moments before disappearing below the
bull bar.

Hence, active light sources visible from a wide angle should be the
primary visibility device, with reflective tape and the like forming a
backup of presumably limited but not negative value.

Travis