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Yes, I understand that the dead man pedal can be defeated by jamming or weighting, but I am wondering if it can be held down with your feet while sleeping.  I suppose that might be possible, but I don’t know.  I guess I would have to research dead man pedal technology.    <o:p></o:p> But my point was to compare the dead man pedal to the alerter with both being used as intended.  However, even if you defeat the dead man pedal with jamming or weighting, you know you are on your own if you fall asleep.  But the alterter provides a false sense of security.  A person believes that he is fine if he is able to reset the alerter.  And yet it is possible to run several miles resetting the alterter while being so near full sleep that you miss signals, and eventually run into another train.  So, I conclude that unless it is easy to sleep while holding down the dead man pedal, the alerter is less reliable than the dead man pedal in preventing sleep accidents.
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