Why do boats have "dead mans throttle"?

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Don White

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Why do boats have "dead mans throttle"?

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We had a very close family friend who was the
conductor on the train and he got my 8 year old daughter and me in the
engine. We both got to "drive" although we were always under direct
supervision of the engineer.

Cool. That's something I'd love to do.

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