Dead Man's Switch - Alternative Names

Alternative Names

  • Replacement of "switch" with "control" or name denoting a specific type of switch, e.g., "button"/"trigger"/"pedal"/"handle"/"brake"
  • Replacement of "dead man's" or "dead-man" with "live-man" (commonly used in the robotics industry)
  • "Driver's Safety Device" ("DSD") (the official term in the UK for switches of this type as used on railway trains)
  • "Operator Presence Control" ("OPC")
  • "Vigilance control"
  • "Alerter system" (in higher-order systems in which the switch activates to sound an alarm rather than deactivates to disable the higher-order system)

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