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LED Traffic Lights Can’t Melt Snow: Dozens of Accidents Reported

Traffic light at an intersection in winter.

Traffic light at an intersection in winter.

So LED traffic lights save 90% energy, but run too cool to melt snow, which is believed to have caused some accidents.

Snow obscuring the signal happens very infrequently, but nonetheless, one has to wonder where and how the ball got dropped on this, what the solution is, and whose responsibility it is to be providing it.

12/29 update: Here’s another story by the Chicago Tribune.

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Craig DiLouie

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