Functional Safety

A control you can skip

A welding cell's interlock never failed. It had no opinion about who was inside. A worker died with two supervisors in the cell.

27 August, 2026

Functional Safety

Supervision Can't Be Bolted On

Most people think an autonomous system is safe as long as someone can always intervene. The Cruise robotaxi incident shows why that assumption fails - and what proactive supervision actually looks like when reactive supervision isn't enough.

21 July, 2026

Functional Safety

What a Real AI Supervisor Actually Requires

AI agents move in discrete steps, and the question isn't how fast you catch a problem - it's how many unsupervised steps an agent takes before anyone is in a position to catch anything. Control engineering solved this in 1987.

15 July, 2026