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Car colours is something that sometimes worries me, brighter colours are sold as 'extra', while greys are default/cheaper. This leads to some cars basically cam
by cplli 4y ago
Car colours is something that sometimes worries me, brighter colours are sold as 'extra', while greys are default/cheaper. This leads to some cars basically camouflaging with the road, especially at times like dawn or dusk. There are other colours that make it harder to spot a car depending on location/time-of-day, but from my experience greys and grey-navy-ish are the worst.
- mjevans 4y agoBrighter more easily spotted colors, superstitiously, are supposedly more likely to get someone stopped for common minor traffic infractions. Have to also add; if self-driving cars saved everyone from gawker blocks and other annoyances that'd be a net gain for nearly never driving again, at least in more highly regulated areas (presumably interstates and highways first).
- gilrain 4y agoWhy do you think it’s a superstition?
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoIt's not an urban legend or superstition. It's a function of the lizard brain. It adds an extra "interesting" attribute (many things can do this, color is not the only one) that makes you more likely to get stopped. It's the same reason fishing lures are painted brighter than the natural colors of the things they are trying to emulate. It makes the brain go "hey what's that?". In both cases the object cannot trigger the "prey" workflow if the brain doesn't notice it.
- ThePadawan 4y agoIt might be a self-perpetuating problem. Maybe people prefer (red, green, bright blue), but they fear that they won't be able to sell their car because of its color. So they buy white. (I read somewhere [so take this with a grain of salt] that this effect happens with marble kitchen countertops: not that many homeowners actually like them, but they believe that potential buyers might, so an overproportional amount of people put them in their kitchens - leading everybody else to believe that they're actually very popular.)
- stuartleigh 4y agoAs somebody who has recently renovated their kitchen and bathroom, it's not that I thought potential buyers would prefer white over a colour, it's just that I thought they were less likely to NOT like white over my preference of colour, and then either be put off, or feel like "this house is perfect but we'd have to redo the bathroom right away because I can't stand the pink" and then offer less.
- aussieshibe 4y agoThis comment reminds me of one of my favourite Mitchell and Webb sketches: https://youtu.be/nWoWHzq21tA https://youtu.be/nWoWHzq21tA
- andylynch 4y agoIf anything that was an under-reaction.
- Freak_NL 4y agoWhen I redo a room it gets the colours we like. I don't care about the next owner of the house beyond keeping the house well maintained and gradually improving things like insulation and wiring. Don't like a colour? Change it after the sale. As it is, the housing market in the Netherlands is completely overheated (seller's market due to a housing shortage), so I could paint every room hot pink and it won't affect the price one bit, but even when that settles down I won't choose boring colours just to push up the price a few thousand Euro. My kitchen: red walls matched with off white cabinets and shelving; living room: bespoke teal wall filling book case matched with patterned wallpaper (in grays) and an oxblood red sofa and seat (a complimentary colour to the teal); and so on. I have to live in it and maximizing the joy I get from my house is important to me.
- lancesells 4y agoI have this same attitude. Enjoy it while you're here and don't live for someone else's ideal.