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Originally posted by Gnarf:
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Previous studies have suggested that white or light colored cars have fewer car crashes, but in this study, silver cars had dramatically fewer crashes.
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Which would mean that the colour doesn't matter, not that
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[...] increasing the proportion of silver cars on roads may be a potential strategy for reducing injury from car crashes.
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I would insert a smiley hitting a brick wall with head/self here somewhere. [/QUOTE]Oh, why wouldn't there be subtle differences in safety depending on what colour your car is?
I agree that there are better things to do than to conduct this kind of research, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have merit. If they had arrived at the conclusion that darkly coloured cars were safer I would've thought it strange, but I don't see why it doesn't make sense that white, lightly coloured, and silver cars are easier to spot in the dark and thus slightly safer? Same thing as advicing pedestrians to wear bright clothes if they intend to walk by the road in the dark.
[ 12-20-2003, 04:47 PM: Message edited by: Rataxes ]