"...and a better chance of noticing them from further out."

farther not further

"No officer I thought the traffic pixel was red"

Woah, awesome! I'm definitely for the new design on all new traffic lights. :)

If that number is a countdown so you know how long you actually have to walk across, that may the best part of the whole thing.

The only problem I see with this render is that they probably couldn't be that glossy... Too much glare when the sun is low

Good Design, with the use of LED can be cost-efficient energy.

Im not going to lie, those would look awesome...definitely more up to date

I like the design just one flaw where I live... some traffic lights are right above you they are not on the other side of the road for a distance so you can see them they are almost right on top of you when you are stopped at the white line.... therefore the whole canopy thing over each light when they are stacked seems like a bit or a block so why not just do one canopy over the top of them all or lay them sideways like in the one picture that way if your almost right under one... you can see whether its red or not that way you're not like what color is it?

It's so nice, like the idea.

I like the LED part, but this design is flawed. You put those in any state that gets snow and those flat visor will fill with snow in no time blocking the the whole lens!

Why stop there? Some people have red-green color blindness and rely on the fact that most traffic lights are set up with the red on top. How about making the red light a different shape than the green? Perhaps the red could be octagonal, the same universal shape of stop signs.

Why do they need three separate lights? They can do it all in one tri-color light.
I would do one much wider/shorter single light.

To JEDK:
People with color vision problems use position of the lights rather than just color.

Why stop @ just the universal octaginal shape for the stop light, you could have the Triangle shape for the yellow caution even

I agree, snow will cover up the light between the visors.

I think a countdown is pretty cool, too. Very useful and safe.

I agree the snow thing...they need to find a way to make it fit for all kinds of weather. Otherwise a good way to adapt to new and better technology.

The color blind thing can be countered by changing the shape AND COLOR of each in one signal. Octagonal Red for Stop, Triangular Yellow for Caution, and say Rounded Green for Go. It's simple enough from a technical standpoint and eliminates several problems.

But it's virtually a world-wide standard to use 3 lights whether vertical or horizontal. It's easier to just use a slight adaptation of the current system than to create a whole new system when the current one works well enough.

It's interesting from a design standpoint and I have nothing against the concept... but there's nothing inherently better about square shaped traffic lights. If we're going to do something to improve traffic lights, let's really do something useful.

I'll second the "tricolor one-light" concept. It would make for more efficient and environmental use of materials.

Making each color a different shape would help color blind individuals: octagon for red, square for yellow, and a directional triangle for green.

Where is the solar panel?

Here's an idea, use the countdown on the yellow light to show how much time you have before it turns red?

They already have some traffic lights like these where I live and have had them for quite a while, and they're not that interesting or special. I don't know that they use LED lights, but they are square. Snow doesn't buildup on them, but I think the covers are curved a little. They have count-downs for crosswalks and some talking crosswalks... It just depends on where you live and what the community wants to spend money on.

Why not make it a message board? Who says it has to be square or small?