Airbag light on, insurance still valid while waiting for replacement part to arrive?

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Bigwheels1111 said:

WOW, I'm over 50.

The cars I drove many years ago would not get 1 star for euro NCAP.

Held together with rust and gaffer tape.

We lived.

Worked with a lady, who was in a crash with her boyfriend. He died she survived. But was horribly disfigured due to flying through the windscreen. 
There is surviving & then living with the results. Totally destroyed her life.

Aretnap

prowla said:

Aretnap said:

Bigwheels1111 said:

WOW, I'm over 50.

The cars I drove many years ago would not get 1 star for euro NCAP.

Held together with rust and gaffer tape.

We lived.

Lots of you didn't.


For some reason, the people who didn't live don't post much on internet forums about how things were better (or worse) in the old days.

Is that a Lockheed Hudson?

Not sure if it's supposed to be a specific plane, or just a "generic WW2 bomber".

As facade said the image makes a point about survivor bias. The full story behind it is a bit different to the popular version, but the popular version makes the point perfectly well.

In the popular version the US Air Force did a study aimed at improving the survival rate of bombers that were sent out over Germany. They examined all the planes that came back from bombing raids, and noted where they'd taken damage. They concluded that planes were getting hit most often on the tail fins, and the wing tips, and the central fuselage, and concluded that they should put more armour on these parts of the planes to reduce the loss rate.

Nope. The fallacy was that they were only looking at the planes that came back. What the image is telling you is that planes could take a bit of damage to their wingtips, or tailfins, and still make it back to Britain (more or less) in one piece. Presumably there were also planes that got hit in the engine, or the cockpit, or the fuel tanks - and those were the planes that didn't come back. If you wanted to reduce the number of planes that got shot down, you should put the extra armour on the areas with no red dots.

People who write those silly posts on Facebook which say "I drove around with no seatbelt, and played on building sites, and drank leaded paint with every meal, and I was fine" are basically the red dots. Nobody ever posts on Facebook to say "I was thrown through the windscreen of a car and died; if only I'd had an airbag and a seatbelt I'd have been OK", though such people certainly existed.