Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:48 am
Saw many, many emergency vehicles on a drive from a clay trap shooting range back to school today. Strobes, LED's, rotating, all sorts of different colors. All working (duh).
Must have been some big emergency down here.
Anyways, my analysis concluded with these results:
Color ranking during broad daylight:
Yellow
Green
Blue
Red (light was shining on red causing it to not show as well)
White (too bright today to see it at ALL)
Light type visibility during broad daylight:
Stobe
Rotating
LED
(Note: I say LED worst because the lightbar was one of those superthin ones... couldn't see it until actually next to it).
I also think that the flash pattern efficiency depends on the speed of the vehicle. If the vehicle is moving quickly, a barrage of strobes won't do much effect, since it will seem just like glare or something. On the other hand, synchronized strobes are less efficient while at a standstill, because a barrage of strobes catches the eye better because of the brightness, while synchronized strobes dont do much better.
EDIT: Note that I'm 14 years old, so my eyesight is better than most.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence indicating that you tried.
_________________
If at first you fail at executing a terrible idea, do it again.