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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maybe it won’t present any practical problem, but the reflector mandate comes with an official proclamation that freight cars can be hard to see at night, which conveys the implication that a driver might not be fully at fault for running into one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prior to that, a driver was 100% responsible to avoid running into a train that was blocking a grade crossing because the crossbucks require a driver to yield to a train.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am amazed that the railroad industry has given up that principle without a fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Reflectors probably will prevent some run-into-train crashes that would have occurred if there were no reflectors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But some RIT crashes will still occur in spite of reflectors, so in such cases, it will be easy to argue that the reflectors did not do enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so there will be a call to make railcars even more conspicuous at night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is the slippery slope I was referring to.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span> </span></span></span></p>
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