RE: [MV] Lights and Sirens

From: John Hutterer (john.hutterer@deltec.com)
Date: Thu Sep 06 2001 - 11:30:29 PDT


Jim,

Yes, of course, we do have four way flashers in America. It's just that they
are most commonly used by disabled vehicles that have had to pull over to
the side of the road, not by construction vehicles that may have to move
occasionally. Also, four way flashers are still red on some vehicles. As I
mentioned earlier, red is a color that is pretty much reserved to emergency
vehicles, at least as far as flashing lights on a moving vehicle are
concerned. Also, four way flashers are generally mounted down around the
bumper (they are, after all, the vehicles turn signals) and they are nowhere
near as visible as amber beacons that are mounted high on the vehicle are.
For whatever the reason, amber seems to have become the color of choice for
most warning lights in the U.S.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Webster [mailto:jimweb@simonides.org]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:56 PM
To: mil-veh@mil-veh.org
Subject: Re: [MV] Lights and Sirens

John Hutterer wrote:

> I understand the idea that the use of flashing lights on a moving vehicle
> may, at first, seem to just add to the confusion. I live in Minnesota
where
> we have just two seasons...Winter and Road Construction. There are always
a
> lot of work vehicles out there with their amber beacons on. Not just the
> highway crews, but, the contractors, the phone company, the electric
> company, crews from local municipalities, flashers on barricades, patrol
> cars after they have made a stop, tow trucks, wide loads and their support
> vehicles, and probably a dozen more that don't come to mind right away.
> Every one of them is much more visible, just because of the flashing
lights,
> and I'm glad that they use them.

Do you not have 4-way flashers in america?

TTFN
Jim
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