I did both - Major: Mechanical Engineering, Minor: Art; CSUS '81
I don't believe that it's a matter of psychology, it's about visibility - I've
never found
my attention wandering when trying to get out of the other side of a fog bank
alive.
G.
snyler wrote:
> Gary McCormick wrote
>
> >How about - "opinion (noun) 1. a belief or judgment that rests on grounds
> >insufficient to
> >produce certainty."
> >
> >All I'm saying is that the reading I have done suggests that there is no
> >physical or
> >physiological justification for the use of yellow lights, in preference to
> >white, for fog
> >lamps. If there is research that proves the contrary case, I'd be
> >interested in reading it
> >and learning why that might be so.
> >
> >I'm only interested in the facts.
> >
> >Gary McCormick
> >San Jose, CA
> Perhaps not Physical or Physiological, but there may be valid
> Psychological reasons for yellow fog lamps. Psychological is important,
> or we'd all be driving white Chevy Cavaliers. Perhaps the warm yellow
> light helps focus attention in what might be a whiteout situation. No
> scientist or engineer was involved in the design of the Kayak, it's
> traditional, and a design that's hard to beat. Maybe the yellow beam is
> simply traditional.
>
> There's more in Heaven and Earth, Engineer, than is dreamp't of in your
> philosophy ;-)
>
> Marc (My daddy was an engineer and I went to art school) Tyler
>
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