Why use reflectors?

The reflector can save your life on the road both in towns and scarcely populated areas.

According to the Central Organization for Traffic Safety in Finland, a driver on a dark road with his long headlights on will see a person wearing a reflector from as far as 300 meters. A person without a reflector, depending on what he or she is wearing, will only be spotted at the distance of approx. 100 meters.

Even with the dipped headlights, a motorist can see a pedestrian with a reflector from up to three times the distance compared to one without a reflector and wearing dark clothes.

Sight is the driver's most important sense. More than 90%
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When a car is traveling at a speed of 50 mph (80 km/h), it moves 73 feet per second (22 meters per second).  The average reaction time is one second and the physical response takes another second. In this time the car has already traveled 147 feet (44 meters).  A pedestrian without a reflector can on average be seen at a distance of  100 feet (30 meters) with low beams.  This leaves the driver 1.3 seconds time to react and act.  A pedestrian with a Coreflect reflector can already be seen at a distance of 500 feet (150 meters), which means that the driver in this case has almost seven (7) seconds time to react and pass the pedestrian safely.  There is a big difference!

Coreflect reflectors function so that the incoming light is broken three times inside the reflector in its prisms and is then sent back to the eyes of the driver.  If the reflector is not water tight, which means that there is humidity inside the reflector, the back reflection will be lower or there will be none at all. This is why a reflector has to be watertight.  Hella Lighting Finland regularly controls the reflection and water tightness of the reflectors.  All reflective values measured in production are automatically saved on a computer for several years.  In this way it is possible to follow up the original reflective values of any lot even years later.