New technology and science is behind the new solar powered traffic safety signs which are popping up across the country in order to help save lives when distracted drivers speed through stop signs or ignore other traffic signs and cause accidents.

Countless research studies have been performed on drivers and the conclusion is the number one distraction of drivers today is not cell phones, they came in second, but eating while driving is the number one distraction. Several states are now banning the use of cell phones while a vehicle is in motion and texting while driving is prohibited in a growing number of states because one study provided proof that a person texting is distracted over 400 percent.

Highway departments run by a state or road maintained by local cities and municipalities are switching to the solar powered signs in order to save lives and money on their roadways and highways.  The LED (light emitting diode) flashing lights help to alert drivers to various street signage that they might otherwise miss if distracted or just not paying attention.

This advanced technology places a small solar panel on top of a pole on which a street sign is then attached.  The street sign has four or five LED flashing lights surrounding the various words on the street signs to help attract driver’s line of sight to the sign so that they might obey what the sign is ‘telling’ them and hopefully will save lives.

The advanced technology in solar powered signs allows these signs to be placed anywhere a street sign is needed.  There is no need for cumbersome or dangerous electrical wires, extension cords or expensive gas for generators to make the lights flash because it is all done through the sun’s solar energy.

Besides the solar powered pedestrian crossing sign, other solar powered signs include directional signs - the type with large black arrows - traffic light ahead signs, construction equipment signs, heavy machinery signs, farm equipment signs, dangerous curves ahead, pedestrian crossing signs, deer crossing signs, emergency vehicle exit or entrance signs, dead-end ahead signs or one way only signs and do not enter signs.

Solar powered traffic signs use three or four flashing LED lights in order to attract a driver’s attention to the sign so that they will slow down, stop, yield or beware of dangers such as power lines, railroad crossings or emergency vehicles entering and exiting the highway.  These LED solar sign lights last much longer than regular light bulbs; therefore replacing them is not an issue and they are powered by the sun’s energy so there is no need to run an electrical cord or extension cord from an electrical outline to the sign.

Solar powered traffic signs near fire engine houses or hospital zones help insure drivers who cannot hear the sirens (perhaps the music is too loud, or they are hard of hearing) will see the flashing lights of a stop sign or a bright yellow fire engine sign and heed its warning. 

Solar powered stop signs can have a dramatic impact for motorists and pedestrians near work zones, hospital zones and school zones where drivers are often times distracted and tend to speed without realizing what they are doing or plow through stop signs without seeing them.  Solar powered stop signs placed anywhere pedestrians and motorists coexist can help reduce the number of accidents by helping to alert a driver to what a posted sign is “telling” them.

Hospital zones where emergency vehicles are racing in and out of traffic can be helped with solar powered traffic signs and solar powered stop signs.  Accidents involving emergency vehicles and other motorists can be avoided by using solar powered stop signs to alert drivers of an impending stop where they might not have otherwise seen the stop sign and continued through it into an accident.

At three o’clock on any given weekday there are thousands of children leaving schools all across the country and waiting school buses and parents in cars ready to pick them up.  Accidents can be avoided with solar signs such as solar powered speed limit signs, solar powered yield signs and solar powered stop signs.  With solar powered traffic signs, people are more alert to their surroundings and more lives are saved.

Large colorful signs posted near hospital zones and school zones are oftentimes not enough to save lives but a solar powered traffic sign with the flashing red or orange LED lights have been proven to save more lives than a traditional sign.

And solar powered traffic signs with the flashing LED lights help the environment because they do not cause air pollution because they do not run on any gas, batteries or electricity.  They simply use the sun’s energy to generate enough power to run the flashing LED lights for 12 continuous hours.

A solar safety sign company is busy helping highway and roadway crews across the country to make better and safer roadways for travelers using the power and energy of the sun which costs cities and towns very little to implement and run.

Solar powered traffic signs are similar to regular traffic signs in that they are the tin traffic signs on a pole; however they have a small design enhancement which would be a short strong pole attached to the back of the pole near the tin sign in which a small solar panel - proportionate to the sign itself - juts out to collect the sun’s rays and generate three or four LED flashing lights on the tin sign.  Solar signs are very economical because they use the sun’s energy instead of batteries which need to be changed often and eventually end up in landfills or long extension cords that use electricity which depletes a city’s resources.

Many cities and towns are looking for environmentally friendly ways to help their communities and solar powered signs seem to be just the ticket because they are of reasonable cost to purchase and implement into the community.  There is no need for long extension cords or batteries because a solar powered stop sign and other solar traffic sign use the sun’s energy to generate power to the LED lights that surround the white word on the tin sign.

Distracted drivers are a leading cause of vehicle accidents in the United States because people insist on multitasking when driving should be a single task.  Several studies have shown that while cell phone use is a major distraction, it is not the number one driver distraction; many studies have found that eating while driving is the number one distraction.  Several states have banned driving and cell phone use because it is the number two distraction for drivers and now a new distraction has popped up called texting while driving.  This is most dangerous because it is like typing on a tiny laptop computer while trying to navigate the roadway.  Many of the culprits of texting while driving are young teenagers and young adults.

With the solar paneled signs, distracted drivers attention is pulled away from their distraction with three or four flashing LED lights on the tin sign to make the sign more visible even on the brightest, sunniest day.  Of course the LED lights help drivers see the stop signs and other solar power traffic signs during inclement weather such as severe thunderstorms or whiteout conditions during severe snowstorms.

Drivers can’t always pay attention, a passenger may be talking to them, a child may need their attention, or a split-second decision to turn on the air conditioning or change a radio station can mean the difference between life and death if a driver is in unfamiliar territory and does not see a stop sign that may be partially covered by trees.  LED flashing lights on solar panel stop signs save lives.

Many smaller communities utilize stop signs instead of traffic signals because they are more cost-effective and the major reason is usually that the city does not have the budget to upgrade to electrical traffic signals; however even in small towns where people know where the stop signs are, there are still many accidents because people drive right by a stop sign without thinking.  This happens mainly because a driver is distracted by either something within the car - like changing the radio station, eating or talking on the cell phone - or something outside the car - such as other people or something new and exciting they haven’t seen before.

One way a community could ease the burden of the city’s budget would be to install a solar powered stop sign at each of the regular stop sign locations.  In addition to saving the community money, the solar powered stop signs save lives because they have four flashing LED red lights that attract attention to the stop sign and have been proven to save lives by making people stop their vehicles when they see the flashing red lights on the stop sign.

Other solar signs a community could utilize include solar power traffic signs, warning signs, pedestrian crossing signs, and deer crossing signs, children at play signs and construction zone or work zone danger signs. 

Solar powered signs use the energy from the sun to generate a battery within the sign in order to make three or four red or yellow LED lights flash on and off to warn oncoming traffic of upcoming events.  For example, a red and white solar sign placed at a railroad crossing with flashing red LED lights would serve as a warning to people that a railroad crossing is about to appear in their path.  This type of sign would be very helpful before a curve in the road or at the bottom of the hill where drivers often do not see regular tin signs and do not know what is in the road up ahead.

Many works zones along the highway use solar powered warning signs to help save the lives of the highway workers in addition to those driving cars.  Many accidents can be avoided simply by paying better attention to the road ahead. When one gets distracted, as people will do, then the solar powered safety signs with their flashing LED lights will help return a driver to ‘the here and now’ and what is going on in the road ahead.

In these economic hard times many municipalities, cities, towns and states are looking to save money along their highways and roadways in addition to saving the lives of the many thousands of distracted drivers that are on the rise due to cell phone use which has now been banned in several cities and states.

One of the better solutions to come along for the cities and towns to combat their economic hard times, in addition to helping save lives, is the LED safety signs.  The LED safety signs are solar powered through the sun’s energy and therefore do not cost the community anything to run on a daily basis and maintenance is very low and limited on these durable signs.  The signs come in a variety of traffic appropriate signs including solar powered stop signs, solar powered railroad crossing signs, solar powered pedestrian crossing signs, solar powered deer crossing signs, solar powered emergency exits and entrances signs, solar powered warning signs and solar powered directional signs.

The solar sign lights are LED powered which are brighter lights and last longer than fluorescent lights and can be generated through the sun’s power therefore saving electricity.  The idea behind solar sign flashing lights is that they draw the attention of a driver, who might be distracted through something in the car such as changing the radio station or talking to a passenger or lost in their own thoughts, back to the reality of driving.  The flashing lights catch the driver’s attention and hopefully that will heed the warnings of the traffic signs with the flashing LED lights on them.  For example, if there is a traffic sign that says ‘slow children at play’ with four bright LED lights flashing, one in each corner of the sign, this would be hard to miss even by a driver who is not paying attention because the flashing bright lights are designed to capture a drivers attention.

Solar powered safety signs have many applications and can be used in construction work zones where people and heavy equipment need to walk and drive on the same path.  The flashing LED lights on the safety signs alert the heavy equipment drivers to oncoming traffic or pedestrian crossings to help avoid accidents and fatalities because the driver is placed so high up on the machinery that they often times cannot see the ground in front of them.

A solar sign uses the sun’s energy in order to power LED lights which illuminate ordinary traffic signs, construction signs, work zone signs, hospital zone signs, children at play signs and various types of warning signs like railroad crossing signs or danger, high-voltage wires nearby.

LED lights burn brighter and last longer than ordinary fluorescent lights and could be used on a safety sign in order to save money because there is no electricity needed, only the sun’s ultraviolet light.  Safety signs could be considered any signs that help direct traffic or save lives because they are there to protect drivers from other traffic.  An example of a safety sign is solar powered stop signs which have four flashing LED lights to help draw a driver’s attention to the stop sign which they might have otherwise missed had there not been flashing lights on the stop sign.  Many accidents happen at stop signs because people do not realize there is a stop sign there and drive past it crashing into another car that may have the right away.  With a solar powered stop sign and the flashing LED lights, it is less likely that a driver would miss the stop sign because they would be able to see it from a longer distance, even if they were not paying attention, the LED flashing lights could be seen out of the corner of one’s eye in order to heed the warnings.

Countless accidents are caused by distractions including cell phone use, eating while driving, adjusting the radio, looking for something in a purse or a bag, reading directions or using a GPS navigational system, talking to a passenger or simply thinking about other things rather than focusing all one’s concentration and attention on the road ahead and what dangers might be lurking just around the corner.  Driving requires the person behind the wheels full attention although this is rarely the case because there is so much going on in life that it spills over into the car along with us.

Solar traffic signs, such as the solar powered stop sign or a solar powered speed limit sign, could help save lives while saving municipalities, cities and towns thousands of dollars in electrical costs.  However, there is no price to be put on a life to be saved by solar powered traffic signs.

Solar powered signs help to illuminate the numbers on a speed limit sign, the letters on the stop sign, the silhouette of a deer on a deer crossing sign and generally brighten all directional or traffic signs for drivers and pedestrians who use the roadways and highways so that they may be safer while their city and state saves taxpayer money.

Many drivers take stop signs for granted, sometimes barely seeing them day after day on their same route to work, home or school.  A solar powered stop sign is designed with four flashing LED lights in order to make the stop sign more visible to motorists.  Solar powered signs work in all types of weather and can be seen through rain, snow, fog or hazardous weather conditions.  Solar powered safety signs include directional signs, stop signs, yield signs, speed warning signs, construction signs, danger sign, and railroad crossing sign, pedestrian crossing sign and emergency vehicle signs.

Solar traffic signs use the sun’s energy in order to generate enough power to light the LED lights for up to 12 continuous hours so there is no need to run a dangerous electrical cord to the traffic sign.  The sun’s energy saves thousands of dollars a year in energy costs and helps to save lives.

Solar powered traffic signs used near a school can indicate to a distracted driver that children are at play, pedestrians are crossing, school buses are stopping or to reduce their speed.  The flashing LED lights help to alert drivers as to what is going on around them and help them become better drivers.  Drivers are easily distracted, and driving takes a lot of concentration because there is so much to think about and do while driving.  Many people let their thoughts wonder and forget to pay attention to the road; that is why solar powered traffic signs can be a lifesaver to both pedestrians and motorists.

Solar sign lights that use the sun’s energy can be placed anywhere outdoors, even under the shade of trees, and are still able to alert drivers with the flashing LED lights.  Flashing LED lights are usually read or orange and set on the four corners surrounding whatever the sign says, or instance the words ‘slow down’, or in the corners of an actual metal sign.  

Children at play signs are usually difficult to see or are ignored by motorists who were driving too fast or may be distracted.  A motorist is more likely to see a ‘children at play sign’ when it has flashing solar powered LED lights on it than a regular, non-flashing sign.  The same can be said for all regular traffic signs, they are just not as visible or attention grabbing at the solar powered flashing LED light signs.

If you own a construction business, a heavy equipment machine shop or any type of business where heavy equipment such as cement trucks or dump trucks are crossing where people tend to walk, then several solar signs would be a good idea to increase visibility of the heavy equipment and decrease accidents.

A solar powered stop sign, with LED flashing lights, draws attention to the stop sign better than a regular stop sign without the flashing lights.  Since the stop sign is solar powered, there is no need for a generator or any other type of electricity running to the stop sign. This saves a company thousands of dollars each year.

Having a solar powered safety sign at every intersection or crosswalk in your construction yard can help save many lives.  The solar powered safety signs have four flashing LED lights that draw attention to what the safety signs are saying.  These signs will help catch the attention of people when they are not paying attention to their surroundings, especially when trucks are passing by.

A solar sign even works on a cloudy day for up to 12 hours continuously flashing LED lights using only the sun’s power.  These solar safety signs are water resistant, so they work in the rain and basically all types of weather.  A company has even designed solar powered safety lights to be used alongside the solar powered safety signs.  These solar safety lights can be used anywhere light is needed, such as a construction site or to glide up under the hood of a car and are just as durable and bright as the solar signs.

Solar signs are the wave of the future. Solar LED signs are the way to light up areas where safety is a concern without compromising safety. These lights are designed to safely illuminate hazardous areas — no matter the condition. They’re rugged and powerful enough for use in industrial areas such as construction sites, manufacturing sites and traffic control areas. This product has many applications that can be designed for temporary or permanent use.

Whether it’s for a pedestrian area, school zone, construction site or plant site, solar signs have many features that make them the ideal safety sign that can be used for many different applications. These signs come equipped with a severe duty solar panel and are built with a high static loading capability and a solid state controller. They’re meant for long-term, heavy duty use with a deep cycle battery made to last and lighting voltage protection.