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Marcell Lipp

First of all the different sensors can replace each other in some cases. Like for example in case of heavy rain you can not rely on camera, but the radar/lidar is enough etc.
On the otherhand in case of sensor errors, the system is going into a so called degradation mode, it's up to the type of the degradation it is either introducing some limitations into the functionality, or disabling it. In the second case of course as far as possible the car is bringing itself into a safe state, like stopping.