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		weaksauce on April 16, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 200... You either trust both when they are nearly in agreement or disengage any autopilot type system like the mcas. The engineering solution is three sensors voting on agreement and disregarding the one that is out of agreement with the other two.

tracker1 on April 16, 2019 [–]

I'd favor one sensor or three... though there's something to be said for one simple structure being more reliable than 2+ complex ones.

weaksauce on April 16, 2019 | [–]

coming from an engineering and climbing background... i favor redundancy.

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