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Date:   Fri, 18 Sep 1998 10:32:59 -0700
Reply-To:   Ari Ollikainen <Ari@OLTECO.COM>
Sender:   Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:   Ari Ollikainen <Ari@OLTECO.COM>
Subject:   Re: DRL's and daytime
Comments:   To: James Wagner <wagner01@EROLS.COM>, Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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At 1:00 PM 9/18/98, James Wagner wrote: >What about the color a car has been painted? Before making expensive and >energy wasting attempts to solve the problem of low visibility, surely the >color of vehicles should be considered. Paint all cars white or some bright >color and that would probably be more than sufficient to treat the problem.

Quick thoughts yield quick solutions which are of necessity not very well thought through:

White is particularly invisible in fog and snow.

OLTECO Ari Ollikainen P.O. BOX 3688 Networking Technology and Architecture Stanford, CA Ari@OLTECO.com 94309-3688 415.517.3519


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