Reflector tape sounds effective and most sensible.  But me, I'd like to
decorate my van like a South Asian truck.  Check out:

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200502/masterpieces.to.go.the.trucks.of.pakistan.htm

or

http://www.mylearning.org/jpage.asp?jpageid=756&journeyid=192

Not only are they fairly incredible works of art, they are covered with lots
of bits of mirror and other reflective stuff, and they are amazingly visible
at night!

Joy

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Jonathan Poole <jfpoolio@gmail.com> wrote:

> Howdy List,
>
> I glanced at a few of the recent posts on the thread where an idiot driver
> almost caused some serious incidents.  I'm sure glad that no crashes
> resulted from the attempted reverse in traffic, it sounds like it could
> have
> been very bad.
>
> I thought I'd chime in on the addition of reflective material on the back
> of
> the van.  I also like to not have reflectors all over my van all the time
> as
> one poster mentioned.  In order to have reflectors when I most need them,
> but to have a normal looking van the rest of the time, I stuck on the red
> 3m
> reflective tape on the back of the driver and passenger door and on the
> bottom of the rear hatch.
>

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