Not the dead mans shoes,or jake brakes,a device fitted in all hgvs that stops the truck when the driver suffers a myacardial infarction or a stoke at the wheel,we hear on the news of drivers dying at the wheel,and how the truck comes to a rest is a disaster waiting to happen.
How could we immobilse the brakes to bring it to a safe stop,then it is the problem of steering.All trains have these devises.
keep your hand on your knob 
Wheel Nut:
keep your hand on your knob
That’s a sure way to bring an emergency on 
toby1234abc:
How could we *immobilse the brakes to bring it to a safe stop,then it is the problem of steering.All trains have these devises.
Until all road vehicles are fitted with a devise to automatically keep them apart I don’t see how you can have a devise to automatically stop them.
I believe the technology is there to fit road vehicles with such devises but I would have thought the cost would be astronomical.
The difference between trains and lorries is that trains don’t travel in heavy traffic lorries do.
- I assume you meant “mobilise the brakes” rather than “immobilise the brakes”
You don’t steer a train so you can hold the dead man all the time, can’t see it working in a truck.
When humans get something suddenly seriously wrong with them they tend to revert to the foetal position - dunno why - perhaps a bulit in natural response for most.
For drivers this would mean that both legs would lift which in turn means the right foot would come of the accelerator and the vehicle will start to slow down
Being on cruise control at such a time would mean that the slowing down is very unlikely to happen and I am of the opinion that this is a major factor in many of the bad crashes where a driver has been taken seriously ill (or worse) very quickly.
toby1234abc:
Not the dead mans shoes,or jake brakes,a device fitted in all hgvs that stops the truck when the driver suffers a myacardial infarction or a stoke at the wheel,we hear on the news of drivers dying at the wheel,and how the truck comes to a rest is a disaster waiting to happen.
How could we immobilse the brakes to bring it to a safe stop,then it is the problem of steering.All trains have these devises.
Shouldn’t that be “IF” a driver suffers a myacardial infarction or stroke instead of "WHEN ", you got me a bit worried there Toby. Regards, Haddy.
Heard on news that a car transporter went off the road due to the driver dying at the wheel,last week sometime on M25.
Are they 45 minutes, the same as live men’s breaks? 
I can’t see how it’d be possible suddenly hitting the brakes in a truck can be as deadly as not.