CASE STUDY
A Bright Idea – Illuminated Road Cones for Ultimate Safety
OUR APPROACH
Ideation
Design for Manufacturing
Production Ready CAD Files
Specification Sheets
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Reflective Road cones are great, but imagine how much more effective Illuminated Road Cones could be. Why hasn’t someone done this until now? Because of the design challenge. That’s why Pi-Lit turned to DesignStein.
Pi-Lit contracted us to help design and engineer an attachment for a standard Cal-Trans road cone, so that the entire safety cone illuminates from its base. Whether alone or placed in a line, they create a highly visible warning light for oncoming traffic that is noticeable long before headlights light up reflective tape on the cone surface, dramatically improving road safety for both drivers and transportation workers.
The environment road cones live in are harsh, so these attachments had to be tough. Weight was a factor, necessitating a small footprint. Most importantly, the entire cone had to glow as brightly as possible for there to be realistic use case. After several iterations of prototyping and multiple rounds of testing, we achieved the intended outcome, and it was glowing (pardon our pun).
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