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fail-safe

adjective as in guaranteed not to fail

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One significant solution implemented as a fail-safe for Level 4 automated vehicles is the concept of remote driving.

And because airplanes are packed with fail-safes, there are times when a flight with a malfunctioning system can safely proceed simply by relying on one or more backups instead.

This is a fail-safe scenario but the converse "wrong side" failures -- when the signal goes from red to green -- are much more hazardous.

However, discussions of fall-backs and fail-safes have not been welcome in the Wales camp while the possibility of automatic qualification remains.

From BBC

"These memory immune cells with latent suppressive properties act as a fail-safe mechanism in addition to the protection from traditional memory suppressive T cells."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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