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If nobody is in the driver's seat, then it doesn't matter if the brake pedal exists. If someone does happen to be sitting there, but isn't paying attention to driving, they might accidentally hit it. And it would be in the way most (hopefully all) of the time.
Sounds like this doesn't include it, but I think it would be better to have some centrally accessible thing to manually activate the brakes. Then you could do it regardless of where you sat.
like the emergency stop cable on busses.
In every bus I've ever seen, the stop cable isn't an 'emergency stop' cable -- it doesn't actuate the bus's brakes or anything like that.
All it does is light up a little light in in the driver's view -- it tells them that you're requesting a stop, so they should stop at the next bus stop, even if nobody is waiting to board there. Otherwise, the driver might pass by your stop without stopping if nobody there is waiting to get on the bus.