xoxoxoBruce wrote:

Yet school busses, police cars, and firetrucks are rarely white. 

Red is hard for the eye to see.  And a brain, in some conditions, will filter out red.  Other factors also apply.

For example, a completely different part of the brain only sees things that move.  Some colors are also seen differently.  So yellow, a color rarely found elsewhere on the road, becomes obvious to that part if a brain.
 

I saw 3 NY State Troopers at sunset last night. Dark Blue, low profile lights, speeding, tailgating, with their lights off. Thanks for keeping us safe!

Happy Monkey wrote:

DC Police cars are all white.I think NYC ones are as well.  LA still has the black & whites, I believe.  The latter two account for a lot of cop cars in media, and the former is my personal experience.  So I still see a lot of white on the cop cars.

Yes white roof with black numbers for tracking from the air. LA has something like 40 choppers.
DC cruisers are white as a result of one decision by somebody, same with any large department.
The smaller suburban departments have a lot of this sort of thing.
I saw one the POLICE on the side was the same color as the car but it was matte finish instead of shiny.
Guess they want you to know it's a cop when you get close enough to piss on it.


 

Make all the police cars pink... tell the cops it's the new black... everyone's happy.