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It would be trivial to keep the car from starting if the brakes don't pass a system check, and make the main electric motor of the car apply maximum regen braking if the system fails en route.
And you'd have one motor per wheel, so if one fails you still have more than enough braking power.
In principle, a system based on electric motors should be a lot more reliable than one based on hydraulics.
Modern hydraulic systems have two lines going to the ABS pump and then from there on each wheel gets its own line. At most you'd lose two wheels at once.
Split systems have been common for the last 4 or 5 centuries at least, but the older ones were just two way split.