Re: "Missed" traffic lights
"the downside of the new LED traffic lights is that they don't output enough heat to continually melt snow impacting them like the old school bulbs did"
CCTV cameras have had this problem forever and the solution is as simple as ever: A heating element and a thermostatic switch on the case and possibly on the sun hood (and for hot weather/solar forcing
driving the enclosure temperature sky high & cooking the electronics, another thermostat attached to a fan)
The fact that this problem had to be rediscovered and solved again decades after it had already been solved shows how poor humans are at applying fixes from one area to another.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
