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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;">Well anyway, the dangerous idea that I was referring to was not about what gets threads locked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dangerous idea is that there is some small wiggle room in the belief (the orthodoxy) that every grade crossing crash is 100% the fault of the driver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing challenges this orthodoxy more than a grade crossing signal failure-to-activate incident.<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: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last April, we had signal maintainers test a grade crossing signal because they had reason to believe it might not work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their test was to observe the passage of a 79mph Amtrak train.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The signals failed the test, and a woman was killed as the signal maintainers watched.<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><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet, if you read the comments attached to the news coverage of that incident, you will find people defending the orthodoxy, making pretzels out of logic in an attempt to blame the victim for the crash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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