Reflective clothing: the “luminous armor” that safeguards safety
Reflective clothing plays an indispensable role in daily life. Whether it’s traffic police, sanitation workers, or students, they may all have a close connection with it. According to news reports, some middle schools in the urban area of Nanpi County provide students with reflective vests for free, in order to improve the safety of students on their way to and from school and reduce the risk of accidents. Parents have praised this highly. Coincidentally, the Hangjin Banner Women’s Federation, in collaboration with enterprises, donated reflective vests with prominent LED light strips to over 230 sanitation workers, which can constantly remind passing vehicles to avoid and ensure the safety of sanitation workers’ operations. The principle of these reflective clothing is not complicated. The reflective strips or lattices on top can reflect light back under the illumination of light, forming a strong contrast with the surrounding environment, thereby significantly improving the visibility of the wearer. Especially during periods of poor lighting such as dawn, dusk, and night, or in low visibility weather such as haze, reflective clothing can help drivers notice pedestrians from a distance and make timely deceleration, avoidance, and other actions, greatly reducing the likelihood of collision accidents....