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This is exactly how the Airbus fly-by-wire system works as well. Two software stacks running on two separate hardware configs get bundled together in a single box. Then they take three of those systems and feed them from different redundant sensors together with pilot input and have the system vote on the output. If one computer returns a different result than the other two, it’s assumed to be faulty (or fed by faulty sensors) and no longer considered for input. On top of that there are actually separate redundant computer systems that run different parts of the plane with some overlap in case one system completely fails.



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