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Evilgoat:

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--- Quote from: "arightpest" ---Didn’t the bloke invent them to stop accidents on unlit and foggy roads it was that type of conditions that gave him is brain wave in the first place :?
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And the Cat sitting in the road :lol:

I've read in a Yorkshire Industries & Inventions book was supposed to have been the reflection off the tram-lines in his native Halifax


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I seem to recall the story about a cat  :?

oakeedokee:

--- Quote from: "Sheddy" ---Apparently cats-eyes allow us to drive faster by letting us see the middle of the road, by removing this benefit we would be more cautios.


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..and if we had a huge spike sticking out of the centre of the steering wheel that would slow us all down a bit too.

Bush Tucker Man:

--- Quote from: "oakeedokee" ---and if we had a huge spike sticking out of the centre of the steering wheel that would slow us all down a bit too.
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As is so often said; the only bit of a vehicle that cannot be allowed for by engineers, traffic-laws, or weather conditions is the nut behind the wheel

muddyjames:

--- Quote from: "arightpest" ---Didn’t the bloke invent them to stop accidents on unlit and foggy roads it was that type of conditions that gave him is brain wave in the first place :?
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Nope.

Cats eyes were invented in WW2. As all cars had to have those black out caps on them drivers fond it hard to se where they were going and one driver suddenly saw a cats eyes reflecting back at him. So using cats eyes in theroad drivers in WW2 at night with their mainly blacked out headlights could see the road ahead.

Useless bit of info for you!

discodaz:
The factory was on the road to Queensbury from Boothtown in Halifax,
I'm sure it was the reflection of the light in a cats eyes that gave the inventor the idea.
In Wakefield they have been trialing (seems like forever now) high intensity cats eyes on Barnsley Road,that reflect back from further away.
Seems to me that the removal of cats eyes from any unlit road is up there in the stupidity stakes with "pace drivers" diligentley doing 20mph in a 30mph zone & driving everyone else crazy!!!

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