Taiwan Traffic Lights to go LED

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led.jpgTaiwan has just announced that within the next three years they plan to convert all of their traffic lights to LED.  For an estimated $7 million (US) the project will convert 420,000 lights, saving appoximately 85% of power consumption.

Once this has been completed, they plan on spending about half the above price to replace their street lights.

[via Engadget]

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  1. Errrr, not sure that this is entirely news … NYC for one has had LED Walk/Don’t Walk signs for several years now, and I believe traffic lights too.

    I suspect Engadget just covered a press release. LEDs are all over the place these days; the really tough engineering challenge is pure white LEDs for auto headlights (see Lexus LS600h and Audi R8 for first applications in production vehicles).