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▲ tancop 6 hours ago

Redundancy in a central node is an oxymoron. Safety critical systems need to work 100% of the time if any single node fails, and stop safely if there are multiple failures and it can't work properly. Doesn't matter if each individual node is 100% reliable by itself because connections fail too.

▲1718627440 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You can still have redundancy in the computation, that isn't prevented by being in the same location.

> Safety critical systems need to work 100% of the time

Railway safety must be safe 100% of the time, but not available 100% of the time. Also the point of a signal box is to make decisions about the order of train assignment to track. You absolutely do not want multiple points of truths for that.