The color of a car and driving safety are inextricably linked, can you believe it?

Think about what you would consider when buying a car and choosing a body color. The color of the car is not the same as the color of the car, but the color of the car is not the same as the color of the car. Or do you want to look solid first? Or is it to be resistant to dirt and retain its value?

Some data show that everyone is a "color" person: 89% of people consider personal preference, and only 3% consider the safety factor.

Most people prefer white cars

Taking Wenzhou, for example, which is about the same size as Wuxi, as an example, the number of motor vehicles in Wenzhou has exceeded 2 million, with 1.83 million cars with blue license plates, according to traffic police statistics.

According to statistics, among so many cars, the most numerous are white cars, with a total ownership of nearly 600,000 at present; followed by gray cars, with an ownership of 500,000; and the third ranked is the black cars, with nearly 440,000 cars. The number of three color cars has occupied half of the vehicle market in Wenzhou.

From the perspective of gender preferences, the favorite colors of male compatriots are: white, gray and black; the favorite colors of female friends are white, gray and red.

White car yellow car security is higher

Back to business, the color of the car and safety have what relationship? Traffic police uncle provided a "which color is most likely to traffic accidents" list, and look at the top5:

1, green

2, blue

3, red

4, black

5, grey

Traffic police uncle statistical 2009 to date, the total number of accidents in each color of the car, as an analysis of the sample, combined with the total number of cars of the corresponding color of the car ownership, came up with this relative "most prone to traffic accidents in the body color" list.

Compared to the above colors, white, yellow and pink cars are much less likely to be involved in accidents.

Not coincidentally, the Continental Automobile Club (CAA) has done a statistics for 5,158 traffic accidents to get the accident rate and ranking of the various colors of vehicles can be seen, the lowest rate of car accidents is the white, followed by gray, blue, red, green, black.

The above results coincide with analyses released by some foreign research organizations. For example, Australia's automobile insurance company - NRMA research shows that in the daytime, black cars are 12% more likely to have accidents than white cars, while in the evening and early morning, the figure is as high as 47%. Safety is basically in the order of white > gray > blue > red > green > black.

In summary, white and yellow colored cars are safer than black, green, blue and red colored cars.

Why are light colors safer?

Ke Siyu, director of the Department of Visual Communication at the Wenzhou Business College School of Art and Design, said that black, green, blue, these colors are relatively low reflectivity of light, especially at night, driving on the road is not so easy to notice. Like white, or silver, and pink to the light or color light reflectivity is high, thus making these colors of the car more conspicuous, reducing the chances of accidents.

In addition to the reflectivity of the main factors affecting the light-colored car safety is higher with the brightness of the color also has a certain relationship. I asked the art professionals related to people, they said, white, yellow and other light color brightness is higher, the volume of these color objects will give the observer a greater sense of view, while green, blue, black and other dark colors is vice versa.

That is to say, different colors will make the same size of the object will produce the feeling of volume size is different. Light colors appear to make the object look large and dark colors appear to make it look small.

Assuming that four cars, white, yellow, blue and green, are at the same distance from the observer, the white car and the yellow car look closer to the observer, which will make the observer avoid the accident in advance; while the blue and the green car look farther away from the observer, which is easy to make the observer misjudgment, and not avoid the accident in the avoidance distance, which will lead to the accident. This can also prove that light-colored cars are safer than dark-colored cars.

Traffic police department sources, in the daily management of traffic police, there has always been a dark-colored cars than light-colored car accident rate is higher than the claim that the statistical analysis of this big data is confirmed. But he believes that the car color itself is not a direct cause of accidents, but to add the external environment and the driver's vision and other factors, "such as at night, poor vision, black cars are not as easy as the white car as obvious to be found, the probability of accidents will also rise."

The source said the conclusion, for traffic management, there is not much research value, "it is not possible to therefore limit the purchase of car color, there is no such regulation internationally. But for car owners, there is a certain reminder of the significance, but safe driving is also mainly rely on strengthening their own norms."