This reminds me of a major feature Chrome had when launched - to withstand a crash of any of the opened tabs. I thought it's a funny feature to have... other browsers just preferred not to crash in the first place. Then I tried Chrome and realized it was a great feature for them, because Chrome kept crashing all the time (back then).
What I wanted to say by this is that while it's a great thing for Falcon 9 to have fail-over in its maiden flights (as we could see yesterday), I wouldn't worry too much about "other rockets" not having this. Soyuz rockets are a great example (100% success rate for manned flights to ISS and over 97% success rate for all Soyuz rockets (that's since 1966)[1]).
What I wanted to say by this is that while it's a great thing for Falcon 9 to have fail-over in its maiden flights (as we could see yesterday), I wouldn't worry too much about "other rockets" not having this. Soyuz rockets are a great example (100% success rate for manned flights to ISS and over 97% success rate for all Soyuz rockets (that's since 1966)[1]).
1. my numbers are only from wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-7_(rocket_family) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_manned_space_mi...