I’m not going to pretend that I have the figures on this but white used to be the most popular colour. Of late, I have had several near misses and one hit with the abundance of silver grey cars on the road which also coincides with a town full of roundabouts that nobodies seem to know the rules for use.

roughbarked said:

I’m not going to pretend that I have the figures on this but white used to be the most popular colour. Of late, I have had several near misses and one hit with the abundance of silver grey cars on the road which also coincides with a town full of roundabouts that nobodies seem to know the rules for use.

it might the time of the day or possibly cloud cover

the silver blends more when light levels are lower or cloudy??

wookiemeister said:

roughbarked said:

I’m not going to pretend that I have the figures on this but white used to be the most popular colour. Of late, I have had several near misses and one hit with the abundance of silver grey cars on the road which also coincides with a town full of roundabouts that nobodies seem to know the rules for use.

it might the time of the day or possibly cloud cover

the silver blends more when light levels are lower or cloudy??

around 4-5 pm. current Eastern summer time

wookiemeister said:

roughbarked said:

I’m not going to pretend that I have the figures on this but white used to be the most popular colour. Of late, I have had several near misses and one hit with the abundance of silver grey cars on the road which also coincides with a town full of roundabouts that nobodies seem to know the rules for use.

it might the time of the day or possibly cloud cover

the silver blends more when light levels are lower or cloudy??

I should add that the orange blinker would be more effective if the actually instigated it blinking before they entered the roundabout.

roughbarked said:

wookiemeister said:

roughbarked said:

I’m not going to pretend that I have the figures on this but white used to be the most popular colour. Of late, I have had several near misses and one hit with the abundance of silver grey cars on the road which also coincides with a town full of roundabouts that nobodies seem to know the rules for use.

it might the time of the day or possibly cloud cover

the silver blends more when light levels are lower or cloudy??

I should add that the orange blinker would be more effective if the actually instigated it blinking before they entered the roundabout.

As for cloud cover, that is so rare here I doubted it needed mention.

As for being hit and i can assure you that I didn’t see her coming. Whilst I’ve always been a ranter about people using roundabouts and have always paid attention when entering them, she still got me..

The thing about it was, that I told her I didn’t see her. To which she replied oh but I saw you.

I can only thank the brand new Toyota ABS, I suppose. Considering that damage is slight, though to three side panels. My evasive action was automatic but too late.

The word you are after is contrast. Cars should be light coloured, preferably yellow or orange or something rarely found in nature if we are going to persist in having bitumen coloured roads.

But it won’t happen because of fashion dictates. The invisible colours on country roads are silver, dark grey, dark blue and black. I have a silver car….I had no choice of colour.

buffy said:

The word you are after is contrast. Cars should be light coloured, preferably yellow or orange or something rarely found in nature if we are going to persist in having bitumen coloured roads.

But it won’t happen because of fashion dictates. The invisible colours on country roads are silver, dark grey, dark blue and black. I have a silver car….I had no choice of colour.

Certain cars are fine in Orange…

I chose a silver car because other colours either fade or absorb too much heat. I looked black model of the car I chose, but in the Qld summer it would be crazy.

Silver is definitely a popular colour in Qld, maybe in WA too ( you’re in WA aren’t you RB? maybe you’re more likely to have an accident with a silver car simply because there are lots of them?

pommiejohn said:

I chose a silver car because other colours either fade or absorb too much heat. I looked black model of the car I chose, but in the Qld summer it would be crazy.

Silver is definitely a popular colour in Qld, maybe in WA too ( you’re in WA aren’t you RB? maybe you’re more likely to have an accident with a silver car simply because there are lots of them?

My time riding a motorbike at uni was cut short by an unseen silver car. A Fairlane v SRX250 doesn’t end well…for my knee and bike anyway. The car was fine, if you were wondering.

pommiejohn said:

I chose a silver car because other colours either fade or absorb too much heat. I looked black model of the car I chose, but in the Qld summer it would be crazy.

Silver is definitely a popular colour in Qld, maybe in WA too ( you’re in WA aren’t you RB? maybe you’re more likely to have an accident with a silver car simply because there are lots of them?

RB’s in the Riverina.

poikilotherm said:

The car was fine, if you were wondering.

Nah, don’t give stuff about the car :)

Knee recovered?

Geoff D said:

RB’s in the Riverina.

I’ll have to google that :)

pommiejohn said:

poikilotherm said:

The car was fine, if you were wondering.

Nah, don’t give stuff about the car :)

Knee recovered?

Yea, all good.

Not sure why I didn’t ‘see’ the car, I think I’d like to blame the colour of the car, the motorbike helmets restricted visibility and crappy weather at the time.

Bad colour for visibility but it’s a very nice van:

buffy said:

The word you are after is contrast. Cars should be light coloured, preferably yellow or orange or something rarely found in nature if we are going to persist in having bitumen coloured roads.

But it won’t happen because of fashion dictates. The invisible colours on country roads are silver, dark grey, dark blue and black. I have a silver car….I had no choice of colour.

I used to drive home from a nearby town in my dark blue Pajero quite a bit, just as the light was beginning to fade (early enough to avoid the kangaroos), but not enough that I thought I needed my headlights on. People would regularly flash their headlights at me. At first I thought that there were a lot of bossy people in that town. But as it continued to happen, I realised that it was probably because they found it difficult to see me against the colour of the road.

pommiejohn said:

Geoff D said:

RB’s in the Riverina.

I’ll have to google that :)

The Riverina is a large part of western NSW and really should be larger as geologically it extends into Victoria. To be more specific, there is a much smaller area within the Riverina named the MIA or Murrumbidgee irrigation area. It is within the MIA that I reside.

Among my list of “most wanted” is for every car to have paint filled with reflective beads of glass, so every car glows in headlights at night.

I put such paint on the back of my car, but the experiment wasn’t a complete success because it only had an epoxy binder that was cream-coloured and peeled off fairly rapidly.

everyone thinks that the way they use the roundabout is the correct way.

I did a ‘consumer report’ not too long ago. It’s a dire thing. Some indicate entering, some indicate laving, some don’t indicate at all (I’m going straight) ..

but they all think they are right and everyone else is wrong..

Some indicate entering, some indicate laving

depending on what exit i am taking i can do both. i usually don’t wash and drive though.