Mmm...makes me feel that the quicker we get humans out of the equation the better. Back to the Iron Duck. AKA BAC 1-11, things were so simple. Firstly, the huge hydraulic flap motor was just a control 'follower'. The tiniest increment on the lever = a proportional flap movement.
Just an aside, but I showed my boss how one could slither the barn-door setting in and wash off the speed without putting the engines up to 'noise' setting. The thing was, that in those days, he just tried it while we were on a flight. He did it perfectly.
About duff information being sent to all corners of the aircraft. Again, when we were taught in the real airplane, flying with the shaker going was quite normal. (We trained to the push.) I flatter myself and indeed my colleagues, that in those days, if a false indication did occur, we would have just known by feel. A wonderful old training captain used to have us doing turns etc., all at the mush angle. You never forget that stuff.