No it isn't. There are already standards in electronics for Functional safety and these chips will have to abide by them. Part of that is that there'll be fail-

No it isn't. There are already standards in electronics for Functional safety and these chips will have to abide by them. Part of that is that there'll be fail-safe chips that are fully ASIL-D compliant, and the full system will be ASIL-D classified as well. The difficult part of this problem is the hardware, not the functional safety - we've got that pretty much well defined by now.