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.