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The boats had rejected their inputs and automatically idled as a fail-safe, making them “dead” in the water.

“Only the person who activated the STM can use it again. My mom has fail-safes against everything.”

Even if you plan to be fully engaged with managing money into retirement, a financial adviser could be a fail-safe if you can no longer make sound decisions.

Congress created the Insurrection Act as a fail-safe in response to armed mobs attacking their neighbors and organized militias seeking to overthrow elected officials.

“Within moments, the robot came to a full stop in response to sensing a pedestrian in close proximity, which is considered its fail-safe state.”