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From: brian@sdccsu3.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: red/yellow fire trucks
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Date: Wed, 18-Apr-84 10:03:34 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 18 10:03:34 1984
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San Diego experimented with the yellow (actually, the sort of lime-green
colour) and found that indeed, they were much more visible, but that
people didn't recognize them as fire trucks and wouldn't pull out of the
way.  When quizzed by the police who (for a short while) accompanied the
trucks on a code-3 run to ticket those who didn't yield right-of-way to
the fire truck, the people frequently responded that "they had heard the
siren, but didn't see what vehicle it was coming from so they
continued".

Evidently there are some deeply engrained perceptions of what a fire
truck should look like.

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	-Brian Kantor, UC San Diego 
	Kantor@Nosc
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