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No, I am not trying to engineer the perfect crossing.  And I am not saying that crossings should be made to prevent all the things I listed.  I only listed those items to ask how the horn might affect them.  It is obvious that the horn could affect all of them.  I am only asking whether quiet zone crossings are less safe than regular crossings.  The Union Pacific believes they are.  The FRA admits that they may be.  You are dismissing the effect of the train horn on drivers because the drivers have failed to discharge their responsibility.  Well sure, but that is beside the point.  The larger point is to prevent the collision, rather than just preventing the railroad from being responsible for it.  The railroad, by default, is not responsible because the train has the right of way.  If that were all that mattered, you would not need anything at a crossing besides a sign that told the driver it was there.
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