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[garry1p]

Quite a lot of police cruisers don't have a blue light on them.

You are correct and I changed my post. Thanks for the correction.
The blue is more visible and is why the change mostly to blue. The color is mandated state by state.

 

[Code54]

Yep - all states have their rules. MI always had the red bubble on the State Police cars since the 50's, PA did for a while, but other states red is for Fire vehicles. A lot of Fed. vehicles run red and blue so no matter what state you are in you have the right color......
The newer light bars allow you to adjust the brightness which is much better. Bright in the day, dimmer at night.

 

[Jstpssng]

The newer light bars allow you to adjust the brightness which is much better. Bright in the day, dimmer at night

Yet that takes an effort, which sometimes seems to be too much.

 

[BravoXray]

Unfortunately most people seem to focus on what they seem to want to avoid hitting, and then ... Hit it!

How many times do you see sign posts or light poles knocked over out in the empty "field" of the side of the interstate? Or a lone tree in the edge of the roadway ... ?

How about the telephone cable pedestals? Around here, it seems like every other one has been hit by a car. I saw a lineman working one one a while back, and I told him they should just paint bullseyes on them.

 

[square1]

Old time advice for skiing the woods - Don't look at the trees, look at the space between them.

Years of Mountain biking developed the instinct to spot and steer through the opening. It saved my bacon a couple times driving vehicles.

Came over a rise on a black ice slicked interstate to see a mess of vehicles blocking the road ahead. Touched the brakes and quickly realized there was no stopping. Glanced in my driver side mirror, saw an opening big enough to squeeze through and headed across the left lane, shoulder, and into the median. Never even thought about it.

My first conscious thought was to keep momentum up while driving past the mess on the highway while in the median.

 

[WinterDeere]

Yep - all states have their rules. MI always had the red bubble on the State Police cars since the 50's, PA did for a while, but other states red is for Fire vehicles. A lot of Fed. vehicles run red and blue so no matter what state you are in you have the right color......
The newer light bars allow you to adjust the brightness which is much better. Bright in the day, dimmer at night.

Thank you for letting me know my memory ain't totally broken. Just about every time I see police lights go by, I think, "didn't they used to be a different color?"

I'm pretty sure ours used to be red, white, and blue in PA, and in fact remember seeing that combination light up behind me more than once in my mis-spent youth.

I like the way most other countries have standardized colors between fire, ambulance, and police. We should do the same, like red for fire, red and white for ambulance, and blue and white for police. It would avoid some confusion when you see them racing up from behind.

 

[kenmbz]

I remember when they did a study on fire truck colors and decide this lime yellow was the most visible.
They spent millions on the study and some engine companies switched to the new color afterwards.
When the trucks kept getting into accidents they finally switched back to red.
So the other color was more visible, but much worse for actually avoiding issues.

 

[masscity]

In 1970 I was working in the Detroit area with a guy 15 years older than me from my home town. He told me years prior he was drunk, hit a cop car that was parked, when the cop car was hit the bench seat broke and the cops rolled backwards. He of course got a DUI out of it.

 

[BackRoad]

Daughter-in-law's Police Officer Dad was killed conducting a traffic stop...rear ended by a drunk driver mesmerized by the flashing lights.

It's a real thing...

 

[Too many Kubotas]

I have my trailer wired up so I can leave the running lights on, and flashers if desired, should I ever have leave it behind on the side of the road.

Now I'm rethinking that. Maybe a single amber strobe light would be better?