Comment by OneMorePerson

The incident with Sully landing in the Hudson is an interesting one related to this. They had a dual birdstrike and both engines were totally obliterated and had no thrust at all, but it came up later in the hearing that the computer data showed that one engine still had thrust due to a faulty sensor, so that type of sensor input can't really be trusted in a true emergency/edge case, especially if a sensor malfunctions while an engine is on fire or something.

As a software engineer myself I think it's interesting that we feel software is the true solution when we wouldn't accept that solution ourselves. For example typically in a company you do code reviews and have a release gating process but also there's some exception process for quickly committing code or making adjustments when theres an outage or something. Could you imagine if the system said "hey we aren't detecting an outage, you sure about that? why don't you go take a walk and get a coffee, if you still think there's an outage in 15 minutes from now we will let you make that critical change".