On Wednesday, October 15, 2014 10:58:48 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 10/15/2014 9:58 PM, N8N wrote:

On Wednesday, October 15, 2014 8:36:22 PM UTC-4, J Burns wrote:

On 10/15/14, 7:56 PM, wrote:



And red reflective tape on the front of a car is ILLEGAL.







Where is it illegal?





I would assume everywhere in the US. Red is reserved for the rear, amber or white only on the front. That is definitely true for lights;

Except for the amber rear turn signals.

those are allowed (ought to be mandated) what I meant was that white and amber are the only colors allowed to be forward-facing.

I would assume the same would be true for retroreflective sheeting. If

nothing else, it's a spectacularly bad idea, as it gives a conflicting

message to other road users - red indicates the rear of a vehicle,

therefore it ought to be moving away from the viewer, but in reality

it's the front and it's not.



Other colors (blue, green, etc.) are illegal as well; blue because it is reserved for emergency vehicles and other colors simply because they have no function assigned.



Green is for emergency medical personnel, at least in CT

I haven't seen that here (NoVA/DC area) but there's a good example of why just picking a color that isn't used in your area is a bad idea.

nate