mjr wrote:..............which is why you're the only person putting forward that argument.................
But I'm not the only person........................
I have two personal experience examples. Both on my commute, and therefore at a busy time of day on the roads.
Example one was en-route for work, at a junction where a minor lane comes into the road from the left. Someone was filtering in from my left and screeched to a halt just inches from me. He apologised profusely - he'd been looking over his right shoulder, found the road from his right to be clear and pulled away - straight into me. The screech of brakes was impressive. I was in my hi-viz orange. He told me that the hi-viz was what had 'saved' me because it was the "blaze" of colour that he saw.
Incidentally (and irrelevant to the subject), he was one of those decent blokes, and was more upset than I was - he was shaking like a leaf.
Years before that, before fluorescent hi-viz and reflectives, I was heading from home one wet evening at dusk - my orange track-suit top was of little use as a visibility aid, and a car pulled out from my left and hit me. The driver was another decent bloke - not driving dangerously, he genuinely hadn't seen me - he stopped and apologised and brought me and the broken bike home in his car.......and he offered his insurance details. This was in the days of (N)Ever-Ready flickering glow-worms, but in those conditions, fluorescent hi-viz stands out like a beacon.
I say all this with the caveat that hi-viz is only one form of contrast, which is more effective in dusk time than ordinary contrast - in fact hi-viz isn't as
relatively effective in good light as it is in poor light.
I'm not going to enter into a debate for the sake of winning a debate - or losing it if I'm not as clever as you (you'll have your opinion about that) - but I know what I see.
Soldiers wear camouflage so that hopefully the enemy can't see them and therefore has less chance of hitting them........it doesn't work like that on the roads.
