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That changes in 2016: the yellow vest and mediation

Since yesterday, the riders must have a yellow reflective vest. And consumers can more easily play mediation in case of dispute.

 

At 1st January, there’s resolutions more or less held that manifest. And then there are the new rules that take effect more or less discreetly. We selected two that affect everyday life.

 

The first is a security measure already well known to motorists and now comes with several years of delay, also apply to motorcycle riders: holding a high-visibility safety vest.

This yellow vest as it is called commonly must be released and pushed by the rider in case of problems on the road. The failure to detain is liable to a fine of € 11; the failure to wear in an emergency can cost € 135!

Cyclists, who ride at night outside an urban area or day when the visibility is bad, must take this high-visibility safety vest.

The small consumer disputes are numerous and clog the courts. An order dated last summer provided the possibility for consumers to go through mediation to facilitate the amicable settlement of their dispute with a professional located in France or border area. The professionals had until 1st January 2016 to comply with the provisions specified in a decree published this fall.

It should thus provide the consumer contact information for the mediators in consumption to which it belongs, by registering this information in a visible and readable on its website, its general conditions of sale or service, its purchase orders or any other suitable medium. He must also mention the website address or postal address of such mediators.

On receipt of the documents relied upon by consumer demand, the mediator of the notified consumption seeks amicable agreement. Otherwise, it offers them a solution to the dispute. The safety vest is necessary. By sharing its solution within three months, the mediator reminds them, by mail or electronically that: people are free to accept or reject the proposed solution; Participation in mediation does not exclude the possibility of an appeal before a court; the proposed solution may be different from the decision to be made by a judge.

The yellow safety vest soon extended to 2 wheels!

From 1 January 2016, the retro-reflective safety vest or high visibility becomes mandatory for motorcycles and scooters.

 

From the 1 January 2016, the yellow vest is mandatory for motor vehicles 2 and 3 wheel and 4 wheel without bodywork, as well as for motorists. The Government has finally settled after the weather vane on the subject for years!

 

Indeed, wearing the vest retro reflective security should be mandatory early 2013 by all drivers or passengers of a motorcycle, with an engine capacity of 125 cm3 or a vehicle of category L5e a higher power 15 kW. Repealed upon entry into force in favor of a recommendation of wearing the vest, the Committee for Road Safety decided to walk back.

 

A decree and an order just to extend the obligations of detention and wearing a high visibility vest by drivers of these vehicles (1). Wearing a reflective vest was previously applicable to motorists, and will be extended to drivers of a motor vehicle with 2 or 3 wheels (motorcycle, scooter …), or a Motor bodywork (for example a quad ) from 1 January 2016 as they have to leave the disabled vehicle .

 

They will dispose of them or in storage of their vehicles (net, safe …) and carry it when they come down from their vehicle after an emergency stop, to improve their visibility, as for motorists.

 

Compliance with this obligation under the Highway Traffic Act (2) will be controlled by police and penalized if:

Non-ownership by a 1st class ticket (11 Euros for the fixed fine)

Of not wearing the vest after an emergency stop by a class 4 offense (135 Euros for the fixed fine).

 

Sources:

(1) Decree No. 2015-514 of May 7, 2015 concerning the detention and harbor of the high visibility vest and Decree of 7 May 2015 amending the Decree of 29 September 2008 concerning the high visibility vest

(2) Article R416-19 of the Highway Code

The safety vest in the car is compulsory

In Germany, carrying a warning waistcoat is so far only compulsory in commercial vehicles and only recommended for individuals. So far, for the latest from 1 July next year must in any vehicles a protective safety vest is present such a decision of the Federal Council.

 

The new regulation concerns all cars registered in Germany, trucks and buses; Motorcycles are still excluded. In many European countries already, however, applies a high visibility vest duty on the Agency for Technical Surveillance (GTÜ) draws attention in Stuttgart. If not obeyed, threaten partially tangible fines.

 

Here there is a single European standard. The approved wests have the European control mark EN 471. According to the ADAC the obligation to have a reflective vest in the car and to contribute to an accident or breakdown is already in Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain and Hungary.

 

Penalties for infringement can be quite high in the individual countries. In Portugal motorists should expect a fine 120-600 Euro. Note: From one country to other part different rules on the number to accompany the West and their use apply. One should check before driving through the respective provisions therefore.

 

The reflective clothing is not harassment, but safety-related accessories, the experts reassure GTÜ. Who wears such a vest, is five times perceived earlier because of the luminous material, the security experts.

 

It is particularly in accident assistance, when setting up the warning triangle, when changing tires or on the way to without vest a significantly higher risk of being overlooked about in the dark

Guides with safety vest

If the cars are still on the way, often only helps the breakdown service on. But some problems can be solved itself also in modern vehicles with some reflective material. However, if the electronics involved, should we leave it alone.

 

The elders can remember that we find: There was a time when it was almost de rigueur to make some small repairs on his vehicle itself. The technology of VW beetles was simply constructed; carburetor or belt gave people with basic technical understanding no unsolvable riddles. Therefore, many drivers were able to make their car in case of a minor glitch itself afloat again.

 

Today this is often different. “The core problem is to identify the cause of a defect without diagnostic device,” says Sabine Goetz by the Automobile Club of Germany the impact of electronics in modern cars. Thomas of the Schweinfurt Vehicle Academy adds: “As a non-specialist, you do not even see today under the hood usually the individual components.”

 

That leaves the owners of newer vehicles only left to call a tow or Subsidiary, as the carriage road causes problems? Subject of the damage electronic components, you should leave it alone. Who does not know what he is doing, could hear the damage even bigger warns Maximilian Maurer by ADAC in Munich: “Modern vehicles take amateur repair attempts have morning sickness.”

 

Not call the breakdown service for every little thing

However, a few operations are still possible: a tire change, for example. Care should be taken of course is to hedge the scene by a warning triangle, hazard lights and reflective vest. But there is also when changing the tires pitfalls: Jacks operate on many different operating principles. Previous Try is so popular.

 

As a side effect you will find so out even if the wheel wrench in the tool kit is sufficient, or whether better accessory retailers a more stable copy should be purchased. Such tools are also available with pull-out extensions. then less power is required for the release of the wheel bolts.

 

In addition, there are still some other things in each car. Technology Professional Geis enumerates: “A set Ring mouth key in the most common sizes in order to loosen the nuts and tighten can, screwdriver, a pliers, a meter of wire, a roll tape, a flashlight, a set of light bulbs and a liter Oil.”

 

With wire and reflective tape, for example, loose parts could be fixed makeshift. The tape is smaller leaks were sealed at least for the way to the garage. Even a sufficiently thick jumper cables or a tow rope can help says Geis. “In modern vehicles, the loop for the tow rope is usually hidden under a cover. If it has to be screwed, then you should know that the bolts usually have a left-hand thread.” The emergency release for the fuel filler flap and boot should be tried quiet time, Geis advises in the event that the electronic central locking does not want one.

 

Who does not know such things, look up needs. Therefore, all experts advise not to remove the user from the car. “In today’s cars, the well 180 pages can be thick,” says ADAC man Maurer. “Nevertheless, they can be calm even read completely, maybe on a rainy weekend.”

Elementary school students are quite bright with reflective vest

With the beginning of autumn, the days are noticeably shorter. It begins the period in which the children in the morning go in the dark to school. Wear them while still dark clothes, they are seen by other road users worse. One child in dark clothing, for example, only seen from 25 meters – with a luminous reflective vest, it is at dusk since up to 140 meters for motorists visible. That’s a huge difference, as security expert’s stress.

 

Therefore, “Gelber Engel” the ADAC Foundation distributed this year again bright yellow safety vests to first graders, so this thanks to the attached reflective material are better seen when they wear these to school. The sooner the child is seen on the road, the more time the driver of a brake and / or evasive maneuvers. It is precisely children are the most vulnerable participants in road traffic. Still crashing many of them on the road, because they are not or too late to be seen. They are not adults and take their environment differently. In addition, they do not have the necessary overview due to their height and are also often not the road hazards aware.

 

But alone with the wearing of safety vests with reflective material is not enough, the correct behavior on the road has to be trained. “The schedule of the new first year is almost six weeks of enrollment not only reading, writing and arithmetic, but in the context of tangible lessons they learn, among other things, how to behave as pedestrians at traffic lights. These we have also virtually at a traffic lights rehearsed near the school, “said teacher road safety education in the Heinrich Schmitz-primary school. Then they joined forces to develop theoretically how a road safely crossed without traffic lights and on what you doing all must respect. In the week before the autumn holidays, the first graders sat around this part of the practice, while the new safety vests were equally used.

 

But before Grothe went on the road with the 26 students, she showed them still on the playground how such a high visibility vest works by them with a flashlight. “I know that the West already out of kindergarten. The strips glow in the dark when there light” of Jan Six years knows Together with his classmates he should then cross the first street in front of the primary school. “Left-right, left … nothing to see here, I can go,” said the two studied the rule and looked it in the appropriate directions. It was not a car or bicycle, and so Jan could safely cross the street.

 

In addition to the West the school received yet sufficient information for teaching, and for the parents there are useful tips for safe school.

 

Because all should know that in addition to the proper behavior on the road and the regular wearing of safety vests is important. Only then will the visually protective companion can have full effect, not only on the daily commute to school.

Reflective material – Cyclists should be seen

The police dressed in safety vest in the district controlled bicycling students: Almost 90 percent of the wheels are in order.

 

Whether for work, school or private – more and more people use the bicycle for short to medium-long distances, even in winter. Motorists should make their vehicles winterized also as cyclists. The students in the district were now taken in terms of light by the police under the microscope. 111 officials checked over a month, the bicycles by students. The result was very positive. Nearly 90 percent of all two-wheelers were according to the police in order. Especially from the new legislation, which came into force on August 1 this year, many students have made use: Even battery- and battery-powered lights are approved for road traffic since the summer. According significantly more wheels were better lit than in recent years, it said in a statement to the police.

 

The bikes of the students were checked before the 30 schools involved in the morning hours 7:30 to 8:30. Only twelve percent of the inspected wheels there had been complaints. “That’s 128 less than last year”, concluded the county police with reflective vest. For the light offenders there was a defect map, which must be redeemed within a week by appropriate retrofitting. “Whoever does not receive the card defects in time, receives from us visit,” says Thomas ceiling, Head of Directorate of Transport.

 

How dangerous for cyclists of road, show the number of accidents. “341 crashed cyclists there were 2012” says police spokeswoman Nicole. A woman died. 330 were cyclists crashed in accidents, again a woman died.

 

But for a safe ride even in winter does not only functioning light. Marc Michalsky from bike shop cycling Michalsky recommends an inspection as in the car. “Who has a hydraulic disc brake, should refrigeration solid oil use,” says the expert. For a non-slip drive on snow and ice, there are winter tires, some with built-in spikes for a better grip on the road. “From mountain to Holland wheel all models can be converted,” says Marc Michalsky. Important are also the reflectors, for which there are legal requirements. In addition to front and rear reflectors bicycle per pedals must have two cats’ eyes. “Front and rear also in the spokes should be attached per two reflectors or reflective strips on the tire itself,” said Michalsky. Who uses a battery-powered lamp, must pay attention to the so-called K-identifier. “This is the prescribed DIN standard.” A flashlight that is fixed with a few strips on the handlebar is, by falling at a police checkpoint. In the clothing of bicycle specialist also has a tip: In addition to the recommendable helmet there are special thermal clothing that keeps you warm even in freezing temperatures.

Safe cycling with reflective vest in autumn

The days are getting shorter, leaves and rain making the roads slippery. There are many dangerous if you riding at night without reflective vest. As cyclists safely through the winter months, you can read here.

 

With slip traps expect

Moist Deciduous, gully tops and rails are in the colder months to fall traps. Wilhelm, traffic officer at the General German Bicycle Club (ADFC) says: “In the fall and winter cyclists should be on the road and always count on slippery places is always a bit more careful.”

 

Tempo reduce

Wilhelm: “Continue to speak five minutes earlier than usual going on, take a bit of pace out and avoid abrupt swerve and sharp braking.”

 

Light up – even in twilight

Fog, drizzle or early twilight provides poor visibility. Good lighting has not only the cyclists the way – it also helps other road users to see the bike. The law requires a headlight with a white reflector, a rear light and two red reflectors, reflective strips on the tires or reflectors in the spokes and two yellow reflectors on the pedals. The lighting may be operated by Dynamo, battery or battery. Wilhelm: “It is not enough to have a good lighting system at the wheel – they must also turn – best already at dusk!”

 

Bright clothes and additional reflectors

ADFC recommends a maintenance-free as possible lighting technology: hub dynamo LED headlights and LED rear light – preferably with parking light. Wilhelm: “hub dynamos slip even when wet or slush and not produce at all time’s sufficient power, so are the clear opposite side runner dynamos advantage.” Bright clothes and additional reflectors on safety jacket, trousers or helmets are another safety feature.

Reflective material caring for children in autumn

With the arrival of autumn, the days grow shorter and the weather changes, which can bring special risks to children. More people can’t see very clearly if you don’t wearing reflective vest at night.

The fact is that the days become shorter; it means that young people could go home walking or cycling extracurricular activities at dusk or when it’s dark.

Experts Pediatric Hospital of the University of California at Davis and Injury Prevention Program at UC Davis say they should teach children to make sure they can see, even when visibility is low.

To prevent injury, advise parents to remind their children the following:

Go down the sidewalk and kept out of the asphalt. It is important to teach cross only at the end of the street and never between parked cars.

Wearing some shiny clothes, like reflective jackets. They can also wear shoes with reflective material or have a small warning light in the bag, backpack or belt loop so drivers can see them.

Use lights at night. Install headlights and taillights on bicycles or scooters for their children to be switched when it is dark.

Stay alert and wear a helmet. Remind your children about the risks of riding a bike or scooter near cars and insist they wear helmets whenever they do are.

The parks are another place where children may be at risk.

More than 200,000 injuries occur annually in the parks in the United States, often from falls caused by wet conditions, according to experts at UC Davis. They suggest that parents teach their children to follow these steps:

Pay attention to the surroundings and be careful with playgrounds, including transoms and bars.

Wear sneakers with laces.

Avoid putting your head between the bars or chains.

Use handrails on bridges and gateways.

Avoid devices that have sharp edges and tools exposed.

Do not jump from swings or structures with height or from one device to another.

Children who play sports in autumn, like soccer or football, should take precautions to protect themselves from head injuries. They should always carry equipment that fits snugly them, including helmets, mouth guards, knee pads, elbow pads, shin guards and shoes. Children who play sports in autumn should also:

Do a warm and gentle stretching before playing.

Drink plenty of water during workouts or games to stay hydrated.

Footballers should never “head” the ball, especially those under 10 years.

When the colder weather arrives, children who play winter sports should rest when you feel tired.

It is important with several layers of safety clothing, sunglasses, goggles and sunscreen plus protective gear such as helmet and wrist guards.

 

Gal Gadot, a real ‘Wonder Woman’

The first super heroine of Hollywood blockbuster was Miss Israel, served in the army of his country and unwittingly has become a modern icon of feminism.

Few women have won a military medal and a tiara in a beauty contest. Gal

Is the new Wonder Woman is one of them.

 

Ex-Queen beauty lover motorcycling with reflective tape, former instructor of combat in the Israeli army, at age 30 the girl who dreamed of being a lawyer is conquering the entire planet with a role that has allowed him to not only revive one of the most emblematic figures of comics, but also empower the role of women in a male-dominated industry.

 

And although their presence is merely secondary in the film Batman v. Superman, many viewers in the Amazon heroine steals the limelight from his two companions. Just like someone wearing reflective vest at night. In fact, many of the criticisms that have been wroth against the film mercilessly agree that the most important moments of the film are when Gadot appears clad in armor of warrior princess.

 

The Israeli has had no great responsibility to revive the world’s most important symbol of female comics. Perhaps because it was celluloid, beyond his lasso of truth and reflective armbands, its picturesque path makes it a wonder woman of flesh and blood.

 

The road to Wonder Woman

Gal was born in a small town in Israel. Her exotic features come from a genetic network with German roots, Czech, Polish and Israelis. Gal won the competition and was to participate Ecuador, Miss Universe, where did not have a significant performance and stayed out very early. Although the experience of having participated in Miss Universe could open many, Gadot postponed what could be a successful career in the modeling world for military service in their country. In Israel the law provides that women serve in the army, so it is common to see them clad in fatigues. What is not so usual is that a woman train soldiers in the use of weapons. Gadot did the result of a great job in his first three months in training camps.

 

He spent two years as a military instructor and when he had finished in the military thought of becoming a lawyer, but fate had other plans.

A casting director was interested in her and recommended her to audition for the coveted role of Bond girl in the delivery Solace. However, he lost in the final stages the role at the hands of the Ukrainian, who, for those coincidences of life, would be competent to play Wonder Woman, but this time the paper went to the hands of Israel. However, the same casting director did not want to lose that magic combination of a true femme fatale-like supermodel. He convinced submitted to another project, the fourth installment of the Fast and Furious series, which Gadot finally made the leap to Hollywood.

 

His performance in the Fast and Furious saga attracted attraction in the world. People wondered where it came from this new talent that seemed to carry around an entire career in action films. The actress flirted with big roles, but took his talent was Zack Snyder, responsible for conceiving the mega project to film the superhero universe DC. And so it come the opportunity to become the first superhero of the time of the blockbusters of the century. And with its appearance in Batman v. Superman, he remained forever as the first Wonder Woman film.

 

A female symbol

The emergence of Wonder Woman in a superhero picture almost entirely dominated by men, with few exceptions such as the Black Widow Avengers or X-Men- mutants came at the time when most talked about equal roles in Hollywood.

Just a few months later, Jennifer Lawrence, who also gave birth to a kind of heroine in The Hunger Games, the shouting was taken and reported his anger to learn that there was significantly received less money than their colleagues wearing clothes with reflective material in the film American Hustle, when all the roles were equally important.

 

Gal has also used his newfound fame as Wonder Woman to focus attention on the inequality of women in film. “There is still much room for more women to enter the industry, not just actresses, also producers, writers and directors. I think we live a very interesting woman in all fields moment. I hope we continue like this, “He told a news conference.

Chile extended deadline to purchase and wear reflective vests

The deadline to purchase and carry on every motor vehicle a reflective vest was extended until the end of January this year, but from the first day of February, the police and the auditors of the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications apply the provisions of the statute that they established the obligation to carry at least one in every of these phones.

 

The Ministerial Regional Secretary for Transport and Telecommunications, Gabriel, who reiterated that the measure is aimed at protecting the lives of drivers who, under circumstances in low light, should get out of their cars, vans or trucks in streets, avenues, rural roads or highways.

 

“For us, the most important is the lives of drivers,” said Munoz, reiterating also should prevail self-care and the necessary measures for responsible driving and pay attention to the general conditions of traffic.

 

Munoz also indicated that according to statistics of the National Commission of Traffic Accidents, “in the last decade thousands of people (600 last year alone) were killed by being overwhelmed by other motorized when vehicles, without using safety vests, they stopped their phones on routes that crossed, they got off for some reason, but without the protection of reflective vest, which prevented be viewed by other drivers. ”

 

The reflective vest is described in Decree Law 164/2014, dated September 6 last year and amended administratively Traffic Law, the number 18,290.

 

This must be yellow (lemon), with at least the torso belts, five centimeters wide; forming a triangle on the back and be visible, at least, 150 meters from where the driver of the vehicle in detention has been lowered, with the obligation you put it on before leaving your mobile.

 

This situation can mean the difference between life or death of that person as a person wearing dark clothing it is difficult to find for drivers, as is usual, in the fall season – winter, and that visibility is a bit better but not decisive: if the person wears clothes in light colors 40 meters away is appreciated.

 

Moreover, this margin is risky because the distance required for a motor vehicle traveling at 100 kilometers per hour, according to the technicians, 113 meters.

 

It has also been established that, with reflective tape, drivers of mobile detainees routes are visible at 140 meters, if it takes lowlights which faces, and 400 meters if it has high beams, allowing appreciate the importance of using vest.

 

Motorcycle riders and cyclists are not obliged to wear reflective vests, but the demands for safe movement, later as reflective tapes are maintained; lights in good condition and helmet use, among others.

 

Police and the auditors of the Ministry of Transport require from the first of February that each motor vehicle carries at least a reflective vest, as well as required in Argentina and in eight European countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Norway, Spain and Sweden.