Research on car colors and crash rates is sparse, however. In an Australian study, white vehicles were about 10 percent less likely to be in a crash during daylight hours than vehicles in lower-visibility colors such as black, blue, gray, green, red and silver, according to a 2007 report from the Monash University Accident Research Centre.
ok, Another point and I bring this up from my climatologist son. Some of the global warming stats are being skewed because of this I might add. In the climate world the proper temp testing means the thermometer has to be located so many meters above the ground and so many meters away from any building, car, junk pile, or whatever and out of direct sunlight.
Why are you bringing up this 30+ year old argument. You must think scientists are a bunch of idiots, that never consider or check for systematic errors in measurements.
Check out berkeleyearth.org/summary-of-findings/
Berkeley Earth also has carefully studied issues raised by skeptics, such as possible biases from urban heating, data selection, poor station quality, and data adjustment. We have demonstrated that these do not unduly bias the results.
I hardly consider my son an idiot on the climate issue. He holds a Bachelors and 2 advanced degrees in the climate field. His thesis in one field was the study of urban heating and so on.
Sorry, when someone mounts a thermometer under the eave of a building directly above the central A/C unit, in the sunlight on top of a building next to a commercial refrigeration unit, or on a tree next to a row of junked cars the stats are going to be skewed.
Hey Bill,thats what I thought(people used to call me Kelvin all the time)anyway I’m of a scientific bent and I like relevant things,one thing I dont like is how relevant current temperature scales are to chemical reactions and such,the Kelvin or absolute scale is very relevant when you get used to it fo such things as color temperatures ,etc;
Idiot666, first I wish you’d chosen a different tag. I’m very uncomfortable with addressing some one as “idiot” and uncomfortable also with “666”. Please, when I address you as “idiot” understand that I’m using it as an address and not an adjective. You clearly aren’t an idiot.
Regarding the more visual colors being involved in fewer accidents at night, there have been studies in this regard for years. A study on the subject is the reason many fire departments went to lime green trucks. It’s also the reason night vision systems display in green; it turns out the human eye is most sensitive to green.
I still love butterscotch interiors, however. {
I love butterscotch sundays, I think the only time I have seen butterscotch colour is in regard to leather interiors. Last night, tough course for golf league, 6 on 1, 6 on 2, hole 3, what did you get? Mark of the devil I said, we won the match anyway, unfortunately a million ways to make a 6 
I just realized my first new car was butterscotch! GM called it “Mohave Gold”. God I lived that car, despite the fact that it set a whole new level for “cheap”. Set a new level for “unreliable” too.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=1972+chevy+vega+images+in+mohave+gold&view=detailv2&&id=798EF4395681595B631EC45FF777ECF998B1B546&selectedIndex=199&ccid=LmBOZtDl&simid=608029290890723501&thid=JN.v3Z2hXpAfmjfuEaAcVp5Tw&ajaxhist=0
Love Butterscotch pudding,anyway Same hit it right on the spectral acuity of the eye,take a green CFL and use it for a night light,it will startle you,as to its apparent brightness(green is my favorite color) Blue may have more beautiful shades,but I love green. White blends in with the daylight sky very well(one reason fish have white bellies-nature has always been first)
IMHO The gold tone exterior paint and interior fabric and other materials of he 1965 Olds was far more attractive than the blah tan interiors of current cars and looked much nicer than current gold toned car paint colors.
could have been,Marnet,every once in a while"the stars line up"Its a shame we lost a lot of the old talent.
2 thermometers within 1 degree at ambient air temperature. One placed out of direct sunlight in closed metallic gray (titanium) exterior. Charcoal gray interior car parked in direct sunlight with windshield facing away from sun. This was yesterday. 2:30 PM. Ambient temperature 80F. Car interior temperature 123F. I get 30%+ increase.
Based on personal experience I think the black car will be much hotter. 10 degrees +.
From experience I can say that interior colors make a noticeable difference. Black seats and dash and black carpeting in a white car are a helluva lot hotter than an all medium gray interior in a white car.
A woman cooked a pot roast in the rear shelf of Her car once(it was in one of the southern states)I know cars make excellent solar collectors(notice the deaths of Infants and Pets in closed autos)around here,new school buses have white roofs.
Most cars in hot countries are WHITE.
Quoting @The_Same_Mountainbike
A study on the subject is the reason many fire departments went to lime green trucks.And then they got away from that color when they discovered that it washed out under those orangey sodium vapor streetlights. Perhaps they will make a comeback when cities all switch to LED street lighting. It's the new thing in streetlightgs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED_street_light
I still see brand new looking “hot yellow” fire trucks go by on the backs of semi flatbeds. Sometimes there will be two or three in a row. (We got us a CONvoy"…) The Semis are not military looking. The fire trucks all have 911 painted on them in an odd looking “alphabet” where the ones look like narrow inverted "V"s, and the 9s are somewhat different too. I wonder where they are built, and where they are going south to. A gulf port perhaps?
Next queation: There are some overzealous police officers who seem to like to pull people over for little things so they can look for bigger things. No, it’s never happened to me. If one tiny little LED in your new car’s expensive taillight assembly goes out, how much is THAT going to cost you to fix before you get a ticket? What about states where you have annual safety inspections? Will one LED flunk your car? My guess is that the LEDs are not individually replaceable. Are they?
Good point about the vapor lights, MG. Perhaps now that everything is changing to LED arrays lime green will come back again.
In NH, one LED burned out won’t fail you. The requirement isn’t that specific, and it doesn’t say how many third light elements need to be operating, only that you must have an operating third light. You are correct in that they’re not individually replaceable… unless one is willing to disassemble the heat-fused plastic and unsolder/resolder the LED element. Unrealistic for 99.9% of the population. Personally, I disassembled mine and replaced the five LEDs with a string of LEDs. The plastic lens piece was long enough, so I figured “why not”? But, then, I’m admittedly not normal.
We have new led traffic, or stop and go lights, they can get snowed, the standard filimant bulbs produce enough heat to melt the snow away if it accumulates on the lens.
I know Luverne, Minnesota used to have a fire pumper outfitting company so a lot of trucks came out of there. Also I think there is an outfit in South Dakota doing the same thing or maybe they moved since the 70’s. The trucks have to be outfitted somewhere. They don’t come from the factory as fire trucks.
Today 3:00 PM ambient 84F. Car interior 130F (maxed out).