{"id":2358,"date":"2009-12-17T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/energy-efficient-led-traffic-lights-are-backfiring-in-a-deadly-way-leds\/"},"modified":"2009-12-17T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T15:50:00","slug":"energy-efficient-led-traffic-lights-are-backfiring-in-a-deadly-way-leds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/energy-efficient-led-traffic-lights-are-backfiring-in-a-deadly-way-leds.php","title":{"rendered":"Energy-Efficient LED Traffic Lights Are Backfiring In a Deadly Way [LEDs]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/bfd08_led_traffic_lights.jpg\" class=\"left image340\" width=\"340\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">Oops. It appears that old fashioned, power hungry incandescent lights have one major advantage over LEDs&mdash;they get hot enough to melt snow. Unfortunately, cold weather cities are discovering this glaring oversight the hard way.<\/p><p>Obviously, if the lights are not melting snow, motorists are going to have trouble seeing the signals after a storm. So far, this problem has resulted in dozens of accidents and at least one death. Solutions are being tested in several states that range from weather shields to heating elements to water-repellent coatings. In the meantime, city crews must continue to stay on top of the problem and dust off the lights by hand. 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It appears that old fashioned, power hungry incandescent lights have one major advantage over LEDs&mdash;they get hot enough to melt snow. Unfortunately, cold weather cities are discovering this glaring oversight the hard way.Obviously, if the lights are not melting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/energy-efficient-led-traffic-lights-are-backfiring-in-a-deadly-way-leds.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurist"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}