Whether you consider it an eyesore or a ethnic icon , the yellow cab is here to stay . Now , one Singapore - ground sketch bring out in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesawards a big point in taxis ’ party favour : Yellow gondola are less probable to get into accident .
In the former twentieth century , as cars became more dominant and affordable , cab outfits like the Chicago Yellow Cab company prefer to paint their cars a single color to increase their visibility , both as a brand and on the road , as the brassy railroad car were impossible to miss on the city ’s pitchy streets .
Today , scandalmongering cabs remain the touchstone in metropolis across the U.S. and the earth . In Singapore , cabs are by and large one of two colors , thanks to a merger between two great cab companies — one that used yellow cab , and one that used Amytal .
Yellow is the easy and most typical gloss for man to see ; consequently , yellow railcar have long been deal the most conspicuous , and therefore the most likely to quash collisions . But is this actually true ?
To determine out , researcher analyze the collision rate of 16,700 Singaporean taxicab ( 4175 yellow and 12,525 blue ) over the line of three class .
The yellow car won the day by a landslide . The results showed that chicken cars had around six fewer accidents per month per 1000 cars . “ If the company changed the people of color of its entire fleet of 12,525 spicy taxis to yellow , 76.4 fewer accidents would pass off per calendar month , or 917 fewer chance event per class , ” the researchers note .
They also calculated risk to passengers , using a theoretical rider who commutes by taxi five days a week . Over the trend of a 40 - yr career , the authors find , that commuter would have 1.1 accidents in blue taxis but only 1 in xanthous taxicab . That ’s a 9 percent departure , which may not seem like much until you consider that we ’re talking about auto accidents .
The authors advocate that taxicab fellowship consider shift to all - yellowed fleet , which will serve the old dual purpose of increase brand visibility and preventing high-priced fortuity : “ It could plough out that a simple commercial-grade determination made by the Chicago Yellow Cab troupe more than a hundred ago has an inadvertent , positively impactful economic and potentially spirit - saving outcome that we can adopt and expand on , bulge out today . ”
