Having the Go open sourced and hackable could result in some really interesting re-purposing of this device. I'm looking forward to what might come out of this. It is a neat device, but I have mostly used it for watching movies.

To be properly reliable, it should be polling three angle of attack sensors at once. Then if one fails, it could go for the majority reading. With two sensors, the system can't know which reading is real and which is eroneous.

Yes, and it's even worse than that. The MBA's decided that the market "wanted" a more fuel efficient 737 that had the same flight characteristics as before, to minimize pilot training. The MBA's then decided that the most "cost efficient" way to do this was to put a very large fuel efficient engine on the existing airframe. Never mind that to do that, the engines had to be shifted forwards and up on the wings so they wouldn't hit the ground. This shift fundamentally altered the aerodynamic stability of the plane, causing it to, for example stall under full power in a steep climb (as in doing an aborted landing). To "fix" this problem and make it behave like the older plane, they created a software system that forced the nose down if the angle of attack went over a certain level. But the angle of attack was measured by a single, fragile wind vane near the nose. When that wind vane failed, the software system forced the nose down on at least two separate flights, killing hundreds of people.

What should have been done: the 737 air frame should have been redesigned for the new engines. That's it. It would have worked. But the bean counters didn't want to do that. Which is why I will NEVER fly on a Boeing 737 Max 8, or as they seem to have renamed it, the 737-8.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: MBA's are wrecking the American economy.

From Wikipedia's entry on him

A degree in economics is nothing like an MBA. Management schools teach an ideological approach to managing what they often claim could be "any" company without direct knowledge of what the company actually does or makes. It teaches such things as systemization of job roles where workers are treated like modular widgets that can just be "dropped" into one job or another. This tends to stifle creativity in otherwise brilliant workers, causing them to behave like mindless drones within their tightly defined roles. It teaches managers to run a company nearly entirely based on various financial and production parameters, with little reference to the reality on the ground of what happens in a company.

Examples include Boeing, where managers moved the corporate headquarters to Chicago, away from the main production centre in Seattle. This was done to separate managers from the actual factory floor. We can see the results of this with the 737 Max 8, where they mounted a new larger engine on an existing legacy airframe, fundamentally messing with the aerodynamic stability of the plane. They tried to fix this problem by concocting a half-baked software solution which relied fundamentally on the data from a single angle of attack wind-vane on the front. When that little wind-vane fails, it can bring down the airplane, as it did...twice.