Increase Your Chance of Avoiding Accidents

So trucks and cars with reflective commercial signage are illegal in Michigan ? They're everywhere in the Northeast ! They make all kinds of refective signage for vehicles, pizza delivery, plumbers, blood mobiles, and more. That's why 3M makes this material, and it's where the bulk of it goes.

 

Places where the reflectives do more than look good.

1- Backing Out of parking spaces, especially the tiered garages

2-driving in wet snow and fog where the lights and OEM reflectors can be obscured by clinging snow, or rendered less effective by fog.

3-parking on a highway at night, especially a curved section of road where the OEM reflectors can be far less noticable

4- picking your car in a lot with other similar vehicles, the reflectors at night are very useful in spotting your car.(long term parking at airports)

5-helpful in other drivers seeing your car when they are (take Your Pick) Yenta'ing on their Cell Phone, Checking out the lighted billboard at 80 mph, text messaging, fiddling with their radio, mesmerized by the Nav Map for the GPS, rubber necking an accident, the MP-3, the legs on the aldy next to them, drunk, on something, or just not paying attention to their driving.

Visibility is the key to avoiding accidents. It is also why emergecy vehicles use them as well.

Oh, and they Really Look Cool, day or night !

 

I disagree.

 

Looks Great at Night . . . . .or . . .


During the Day !

 

The New York State Police use a Dark Blue and Yellow 'Livery' with one inch or wider Reflective Yellow that Really Stands Out at Night, and there is no law against pinstriping your car with the same color. Every municipality has its own livery, they'd have to outlaw every color there is, and so they don't actually make using these materials illegal. I suppose if one were trying to imitate a police or emergency vehicle then you'd have a problem but I first did this on a 94 Jeep, and it is now similarly applied to four vehicles just in my family. Not one time in all those years in any state I've driven through, which are quite a few, including Michigan, have I been stopped even one time. I guess that says it all.

but I do get a lot of compliments.

 

You would find it very difficult, nearly impossible, to find a Toyota Prius anywhere on Long Island that does NOT have those stickers. If you lived here, you would have them on yours too.

The "stickers with the writing on it" are Clean Pass Vehicle emblems so when I driving alone during the rush hours here in New York on the 'High Occupancy Vehicle' (HOV) Lanes, a cop will not pull me over. Those stickers are the reason I bought a Toyota Prius back in 2007. They save me from inching along with the tens of thousands in the other cars that can't qualify for them. They save me something irreplaceable, and something Far more valuable than money, those stcikers Save My Time. When I'm zipping past all those BMW's, Mercedes-Benz's, Humungous SUV's, and all the rest spewing their filth at 10 miles and hour, They Look Fantastic. So much so that people often trade in the slow moving BMW's and M-B cars on a Prius, just to be able to acquire them. (note: There is another poster on the Gen III Main Forum with a thread, " I GOT MY HOV Stickers " in case you have any doubts.

 

I did that because it reminded me of the graphic that appears in the Prius whenever you press the Start Button. The word Prius with lines above & Below. Adding the Roman Numeral afterward seemed logical.

 

Or in more accurate terms, " Unlike New York, The State of Maryland Refuses to offer ANY INCENTIVES to Good Citizens who Choose to responsibly purchase vehicles that SPEW Far Less Filth and Pollution, like PZEV "

 

And yet cities needing clean air, and a nation needing to lower its export of money to nations that supply oil, and support terrorists would seem a worthwhile reason to do what can be done to encourage the purchase of clean efficient vehicles, and penalize the gas guzzlers. Perhaps Gas Guzzlers should be Disqualified from the HOV lanes at the same time. Vehicles that get below 15 mpg, excluding buses and vans with large capacity seating, obviously.