Red really DOES make you faster

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**Anung Un Rama**

Shamelessly stolen from BOLS:

Athletes who wear red could have a subtle advantage, say Canadian researchers, who have found that the eye perceives red as moving faster than other colours.

Does Joannie Rochette, seen here at the 2009 World Figure Skating Championships in Los Angeles, appear to go faster when she's wearing red than when she's wearing blue? Does Joannie Rochette, seen here at the 2009 World Figure Skating Championships in Los Angeles, appear to go faster when she's wearing red than when she's wearing blue? (Mark Ralston/Getty Images) Mazyar Fallah, a professor of kinesiology and health science at York University, says wearing red might confer a slight advantage in sports such as figure-skating and gymnastics, where judging is involved.

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/02/26/tech-brain-colour-sport.html

**Orlanth**

Makes sense, opposite ends of the spectrum after all.

Perhaps blue cars pick up fewer speeding tickets. after all if the car is blue it appears slower and thus the police might not think to turn their hand held radar onto it

**mattyrm**

Yeah its pretty funny, but its old news actually, i read a story years back that it was a proven fact that red cars get more tickets off cops than blue ones.

I think thats where GW got the idea from..

**KingCracker**

Id imagine that is a good guess anyways. I owned only 1 red vehicle in my life, and sure enough I was pulled over MORE in that truck then any others Ive owned. Well, except a 64 Fairlane I owned, but that was because cops always wanted to ask me about it. The joys of living in a small town lol. But ya, and I never speed, always go 1 or 2 mph under the speed limit and then hit the cruise. So I know it was because of the thing being red. Only concept I came up with.

**J-Roc77**

I had a hopped up red sports car in my youth, the color I dubbed "arrest me red". I could be cruising in a line of cars and be the only one getting pulled over. Happened on 3 different occasions. Of course the little zippy car following Toyotas etc. will probably get the cops attention whether speeding or not. So red conveys a disadvantage to me :(

**rubiksnoob**

Red light has a longer wavelength so appears moving away from you. . . or something like that. Learned about it in Astronomy class.

**Albatross**

It hasn't helped my spank football team at all.

EDIT: Er, by which I mean the football team I support is a load of spank - not that I've invented a new sport called 'spank Football'.

**FITZZ**

Albatross wrote:It hasn't helped my spank football team at all.

EDIT: Er, by which I mean the football team I support is a load of spank - not that I've invented a new sport called 'spank Football'.

I Imagine it might be difficult to find sponsers for "spank football".
Budwieser-"pass"
Coors-"Pass."
KY-Jelly-" " Come by for a meeting tomorrow."

**Orkeosaurus**

rubiksnoob wrote:Red light has a longer wavelength so appears moving away from you. . . or something like that. Learned about it in Astronomy class.

Are you thinking about the red shift? Because that means that as something moves away from you at greater speeds, it looks more and more red (because the distance between the waves is lengthened by the movement of the object). It's like the doppler effect for light.

Maybe this has something to do with the perception of speed? It works in reverse for things moving towards you quickly (they look more blue), so I don't know.

**aka_tizz**

Orkeosaurus wrote:
rubiksnoob wrote:Red light has a longer wavelength so appears moving away from you. . . or something like that. Learned about it in Astronomy class.
Are you thinking about the red shift? Because that means that as something moves away from you at greater speeds, it looks more and more red (because the distance between the waves is lengthened by the movement of the object). It's like the doppler effect for light.

Maybe this has something to do with the perception of speed? It works in reverse for things moving towards you quickly (they look more blue), so I don't know.

Yeah, i remember reading somewhere that this is exactly the effect they use for measuring the exact distances between Earth and stars out there. Pretty interesting stuff, made me wish i hadn't skipped all the physics classes in high-school.

On the other hand, maybe this is exactly the reason why they make most Ferraris red - they do go faster. Which leads us to the next question : Ferrari designers = Orks?

**dogma**

Red, along with orange and yellow, are natural indicators of danger. Notice that most poisonous non-predators are colored in such a fashion. Its been proven that most species have stronger responses to red, yellow, and orange that are considerably stronger than those to green, blue, and violet. I imagine that the same is true of police who issue speeding tickets.

It would also follow that people who choose red cars are more likely to accept the risks involved in speeding.

**chaplaingrabthar**

Up there is proof that Red doesn't always equal success (no League title since 1990!!)

Of course, my actual team would kill for failure as glorious as those of the red scousers.

**generalgrog**

Hmmmm.... never got a ticket until I purchased a Black mustang GT, with dark tint and side pipes.
I don't think color matters as much as whether or not it's a sportscar.

GG

**Requia**

dogma wrote:Red, along with orange and yellow, are natural indicators of danger. Notice that most poisonous non-predators are colored in such a fashion. Its been proven that most species have stronger responses to red, yellow, and orange that are considerably stronger than those to green, blue, and violet. I imagine that the same is true of police who issue speeding tickets.

It would also follow that people who choose red cars are more likely to accept the risks involved in speeding.

And the higher insurance for the paint job, insurance companies must secretly be run by orks.

In response to the OP, orks think red onez go fasta, therefore red onez go fasta, which proves them right.

**Cannerus_The_Unbearable**

I used to use a red deckbox and card sleeves for a reason

Anyway, the bit about speeding tickets and red doesn't apply anymore. Saw a study somewhere where black cars had only slightly more tickets than any other. It was supposedly because officers look at a screen to see how fast you're going before they see your car specifically nowadays.

**NOAH THE INQUISITOR**

my ONLY TRANSPORT IN MY ARMY just ONE RHINO survived 15 different power fist attacks just because I was going so fast.