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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you wear special clothes to get from place to place in your car?[/quote]

No. Because I’m IN my car. My car has lights on all the time. And it’s a bright color. [/quote]

People should be able to walk from place to place, or roll from place to place, without the obligation being on them to change clothes for that purpose.  As long as they are following traffic rules and the motorist is following traffic rules, their should be no problem.

The breaking of traffic rules is the problem.  Not what people are wearing.[/quote]

“Here lies the body of William Jay, Who died maintaining his right of way— He was right, dead right, as he walked along, But he’s just as dead as if he were wrong.”

Wear what you like. It’s your life.

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But here is the thing.  There is a not a whole lot of evidence of "people wearing all black" being killed while walking or biking on a road at any higher rate than somebody who took the time out of their life to change into a reflective flashing vest..  
There is quite a bit of anecdotal evidence of drivers being annoyed that they actually had to pay attention and couldn't actually roll through a right turn or a stop sign because hey had to break at the last minute for one of these people.

Seems to me we need more drivers acting cautiously and paying attention, not more people in neon clothes.[/quote]

[b]There is a lot of evidence that reflective clothing reduces the chance of a pedestrian being struck[/b]. [/quote]

I have not seen any evidence of this.  There are studies that tracked eye focus that showed that drivers SEE pedestrians at a further distance if they are wearing reflective clothing than when they don't.  But there is no evidence that pedestrians without reflective clothing are struck at a higher rate.

This isn't really as pedantic as it sounds.  The behavioral change required is in driver speeds and caution, not in attire of people trying to get from place to place.[/quote]

Pedestrians are more likely to be hit during evening and night hours of low visibility. 
"Several studies established that wearing retroreflective materials increased recognition distance (Luoma et al., 1995; Owen and Sivak, 1993). Research shows that pedestrians usually overestimate their own visibility to drivers and underestimate the benefits of retro-reflective materials in dark conditions (Tyrell and Patton, 1998; Tyrell et al., 2004a; Tyrell et al., 2004b)".[/quote]

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