[BC] Re: CES

[Mike McCarthy]

As a side note, I recently sat through a local town meeting which discussed 
this very item...LED signs distracting drivers along a busy strip of road.

They debated the merits of one business's desire/application to install a 
red mono-chrome LED signboard along a busy road. It was interesting to hear 
some study which cited an increase of collisions near an intersection after 
a corner business installed a LED sign board facing one road's bi-direction 
of travel.

Considering the brightness of tail-light LED's and their blinding effect if 
you are close, this doesn't surprise me at all.  I'm surprised there aren't 
more rear end collisions because of the blinding effect those hyper-bright 
LED create to light sensitive drivers.

Needless to say, they voted down the request and suggested an ordinance be 
created which would address or outright ban LED signs along certain busy roads.

MM

At 09:10 AM 1/9/2006 -0500, Scott Fybush wrote

>>As far a super-size TV displays goes, they is a huge billboard alongside 
>>Ohio Rte 2 (probably also called I-90 as well) as one enters Cleveland 
>>from the east.  It sure looked like a BRIGHT flat-panel display to me on 
>>a cloudy Christmas noon.  Have flat-panel displays become that 
>>large?  Surely made up of numerous smaller units. I now see them in 
>>vertical format in various stores hawking goods.
>>
>>bob c.
>
>I know the billboard you're talking about. I believe it's a huge LED 
>matrix, not unlike the Jumbotrons (or other proprietary brand names) you'd 
>see at a stadium. Some of those displays can be distractingly bright, I've 
>found.
>s