"Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens—usually.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author, distinguished professor of risk engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering
Imagine some day in the future you kiss your young grandchildren and daughter goodbye as they head to downtown Houston in their new self-driving car. An hour later, you hear on the radio there’s been a massive wireless service outage. You fight back that tinge of nausea in the pit of your stomach as your mind immediately flashes to your family whizzing down I-45. No network connection. No navigation. No traffic data.
