What purpose does it serve to break the back button?
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a21083825/for-a-weekend-ca...
The next one will be closer to vinyl Oracal orange (so damage can be more easily hidden)
The shop that makes these has gone for even higher visibility. Yellow and green highlighter colors.
Interesting. I've seen a number of matte black cars on the streets. Are those all after-market modifications?
There was a study in Australia about this: https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/216475/An...
Interestingly, the bright yellow color usually means accident, while orange means regular decompression stop. I have seen pink ones but they seem very rare.
So I'm guessing people must think yellow is more visible?
When I’m doing project diving, we’ll use a pink DSMB to mark something that we want to go back to, and not surface with it.
Orange for surfacing and yellow for an emergency, as you describe.
It a shame that CMAS, PADI or SSI don't propose a standard.
International Orange is designed to be maximally visible under as many different conditions as possible, so may not be the most visible in every single circumstance.
There are three main mechanisms of colorblindness, corresponding to the three main types of light receptors in the eye: deutan (green-weak), protan (red-weak), and tritan (“blue-weak”, although this is not a common term). About three quarters of color vision issues are deutan, one quarter is protan, less than 1% is tritan.
When you go out into the world and start interacting with contrasting color pairs, both green-weak and red-weak color vision cashes out as “red-green colorblindness”, while blue-weak cashes out as “blue-green colorblindness”. None of these have issues distinguishing yellow/orange from blue.
Presumably this is actually the motivation for the international air safety color being orange, as it’s easily distinguishable from blue sky.
Keep in mind that I can judge saturation and brightness just fine, and that's a big part of what makes that shade of orange stand out.
Lime yellow has become popular on fire trucks, ambulances, and similar. See https://www.apa.org/topics/safety-design/fire-engine-color-s...
Eg the Tomb Raider reboot uses white for climbables.
Also, microprismatic reflective tape can retrofit a bus to be more visible under low-light conditions.