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[quote user="Ulrich"] Reflectors are a good idea...anything that makes it easier to see is a help... <div style="clear:both;"></div> [/quote] The point I made at the end of the previous page is one that I have made here before.  However, I am not sure if it has ever been clearly understood.  What always gets in the way is the obvious conclusion that reflectors can prevent crashes, and how can there be anything wrong with that?   I agree with that.  In fact, I put up a big reflector today to keep my neighbors from running into my mailbox.  I understand that benefit of reflectors.  But the larger point that I have made has nothing whatsoever to do with that.   <o:p></o:p> When a car and driver gets hit by a train, the train bears no fault.  Unless there is some unusual aberration such as grade crossing flashers failing to activate, the car/train crash is always 100% the fault of the car driver.  Railfans and railroaders all know this, and they shout it from the mountaintop all the time.   <o:p></o:p> It used to be the same with run-into-train crashes, but no more.  Now, R.I.T. crashes can be the fault of the railroad because a driver might not see the train in time to stop.  It amounts to a moron pardon for a particular type of grade crossing sin, whereas before, there was zero tolerance.  This is an amazing sea change, and even more amazing that nobody seems to recognize it. Maybe it is not recognized because the safety benefit of reflectors seems so obvious, and the pardoning by the FRA of drivers failing to yield, as the rationale for reflectors, is not widely known.
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