fail-safe

Another issue identified by the investigation was that no fail-safe system - involving valve position indicators and gas pressure sensors - had been installed to alert the crew that the valve was failing.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Those recorded cues act as a fail-safe against technical malfunctions during the broadcast, though the orchestra aims to play everything live.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

As a key oil producer, Saudi Arabia is relied upon to surge output and stabilize markets during crises, but any physical degradation of its export capacity neuters this critical fail-safe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

Level 4 automated vehicles, which this research was based on, are capable of automatically starting fail-safe and fail-operational protocols.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2024

She referred to it as nature’s fail-safe, as if that could draw the poison from the sting.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

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.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

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 ● Nov. 20, 2023

The company typically uses two or even three separate components as fail-safes for crucial tasks to reduce the possibility of a disastrous failure.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2019

Fortunately, though, the new generation of submarines are built with so many levels of redundancy and fail-safes, the chances of anything bad happening are remote.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 12, 2018

That was the beauty of all these fail-safes and layers of security.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo