Why use reflectors?

 

 

Sight is the driver's most important sense. More than 90% of all messages to our brain are visual when we are driving.

Pedestrians with reflectors


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 Talmu 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!

 

 

Talmu 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.

 

Daytime visibility at night time
 
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