Way back in the stone age, my doctoral thesis was on the design of
fault-tolerant electronics. A lot has changed in the 25+ years, but
reliability theory hasn't changed much since Roman times when the
historian Juvenal coined the phrase "Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?"
(i.e., But who will guard the guardians themselves?) and an anonymous
sanitation engineer coined the phrase "Custodite Hoc est simplex
stultus" (i.e., Keep It Simple Stupid).
So, I ask the question: Is it more reliable or less reliable to add a
secondary RC-based control system to a vehicle as a safety cut-off for
the primary RC-based control system?
Typically, the following topics are addressed when trying to answer such
a question:
1) Will the RC-based kill system handle all of the same fault scenarios
as the manual cutoff system?
2) Will the RC-based kill system introduce additional fault scenarios
that must be handled?
3) Will the RC-based kill system use electro-mechanical parts that are
more or less reliable than both the primary RC-based control system and
the manual kill system?
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