neal@weitek.UUCP (Neal Bedard) (05/16/85)
[SNORT THIS LINE] moroney@jon.DEC (Mike Moroney) writes: >I heard recently that GREEN cars have a higher proportion of accidents, >since, for some reason, bad drivers prefer green cars to any other color. >Green isn't usually as visible as red, either. jayt (Jay T McCanta) writes: >The clerk who told me about the higher rates for red cars said that >that applies to sub-standard drivers. There are a few companies that >will insure anybody (for a price). When your record is bad enough for >these people, they take everything into account. Green is easier to see than red. Jay M. pointed that out to me, and a quick glance in my copy of Foley and Van Dam (Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics, pp. 606) confirmed this. Green, however, doesn't have the the `racy' connotation that red does (or black, for that matter.) As far as the correlation between car color and driving habits, this seems to be a little off-base. I assert that for most people, the *type* of car is more important than it's color, which is where this whole discussion started in the first place (remember "Rabbit Going Fast"?) `Nuff said. Primer Gray usually indicates the *very* worst drivers. Think about it. Cheers, Neal B. "same as it ever was, same as it ever was..."