

History of Cats Eyes and Their Function for the Road User

By: Simon McBride - Updated: 7 Sep 2019 | comments*Discuss
History Of Cats Eyes And Their Function For The Road User


Percy Shaw Invented Cats Eyes



Patent Registered for Cat's Eyes






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Cateye carbis - 7-Sep-19 @ 9:57 PM
Cat’s Eyes are an incredible invention by Percy Shaw. In Wiltshire the council are removing them!I am outraged.Huge Money resources are being wasted on such an evil act. The motorist has not been consulted. I can’t imagine the majority would endorse removing the safety guide cat’s eyes provide. It won’t stop the minority of crazy speeders. What bureaucrat decided this? It would be more beneficial to repair pot holes I despair at the folly of any council agreeing to this despicable act.
Angry - 7-Jul-19 @ 9:56 AM
Cats Eyes is what they are. Cats Eyes is what they will always be. I will never call them anything else as they have never been known as anything else. I've read articles online arguing for the LED versions, stating that the original Cats Eyes only last two or three years. This is rubbish. On the mountain road before it was resurfaced they were still working after at least a decade, not all of course but a vast majority. It was resurfaced 6 years ago - all of them put in at that timeare still working.
Fejinwales - 2-Jul-19 @ 9:32 AM
Why why why have we changed the name from Cats eyes to Road studs? The name was given to them by their inventor so why do we have to change it - apparently someone complained that the name "cat eyes upset her child - and obviously she could not be bothered to explain to the child they are a safety device and that no actual cats had had their eyes removed!!!!Ridiculous!!
SLY - 18-Aug-17 @ 9:51 AM
This was a really helpful invention.I don't know where we would have been without Perry Shaw's invention of Cats Eyed. ????
Jo - 17-Jan-17 @ 7:51 PM
Charles - 21-Dec-14 @ 11:41 AM
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