A recent thread mentioned the use of road flares. This Thanksgiving during the drive to my mom's place, there was a long curve in the road on interstate 40 in Tennessee. Early in the curve were some incendiary road flares that really got my attention. I realized something was up and, sure enough, on the other side of the blind curve was a highway patrolman helping a stuck motorist.

This was in broad daylight and the flares worked really well to warn oncoming traffic. It got me thinking about putting some flares in my trunk.

I've done some net research and there are offerings of electronic/LED flares. What is the opinion of this board's professional rescue people on flares? Stay with the incendiary types, or are there some electronic models that are worth a darn? For incendiaries, are the commercial grade models that much better than "consumer" models? Thanks.