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dead man's switch
Gender biased term of a type of failsafe system used when debugging large
or potentially dangerous robotics systems. The dead man's switch is a
physical contact held closed in the hand. If the robot does something
unexpected due to a bug then the hacker can simply release/drop the
switch and the robot will come to a controlled stop and then power off.