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Think an earlier poster hit the nail with his earlier description of how HAL should handle an AoA failure: by gracefully handing over the aircraft to the crew without bells, horns, stick-shakers going off. In the light of that, the proposal is certainly not without merit. Now, whether it'll be easier to have the old girl fall over nicely, perhaps having to advise of her condition via EICAS, or bolt a synthetic sensor to her innards, is not something I'll hazard a guess on. Both sounds expensive though.
I can certainly imagine a scenario like that, although it definitely sounds expensive -- and probably not easy to fast-track. My main reason for calling it "odd" is that such a solution, if it were feasible, doesn't seem to fit as a"transitional" scheme.
In any event, I agree that Ky didn't really make any assertions about decisions or timing that should be seen as definitive.