Oh come on. We’ve had LED stoplights in Michigan for at least a decade, and we get just as much snow as Milwaukee.
This is much ado about very little. Fer crying out loud, snow covers the lane markings, the traffic signs, and at times we have white-outs from windblown snow.
This is a sorry excuse for blowing through a light.
LED traffic lights save a ton of money because otherwise crews have to change the bulbs annually, BEFORE THEY BURN OUT. If they do burn out, then guess what? YOU CAN’T SEE THE TRAFFIC LIGHT.
How safe is that?
/rant.
Same thing happens on my Silverado dually, I have added all kinds of LED lamps to it including side markers, roof, tail and fancy progressive turn signals, and I live in Alaska.
Old lamps would melt the ice, not anymore, now I have to chip them clean.
Well at least this should create jobs, changing them back!
Nice thing about heating elements is they don't use any power... /s
I don’t admire eco-fascists, but I do no like the idea linking LED traffic lights with liberals. It is not just a status of high technology standards against other countries as a self-esteem of patriotism, but a key to rely less on oil which may always risk Middle East unstability and cost rise of oil. It also saves more tax payers’ money and contributes to a smaller government. Improvements may be needed for the cold freezing regions, but on the long run, LEDs last more than bulbs, which would contribute to less maintenance.
As another advantage, LED traffic lights could also beam megabytes of data per second with nano-second of flashing that may provide data of traffic to vehicle navigation system, which would upgrade traffic systems towards a new dimension. The icing and snow is a problem, but that should not mean LED traffics are such a failure.