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From: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Reliability of passive restraints
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Date: Sun, 12-Jan-86 18:20:01 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 12 18:20:01 1986
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Reply-To: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc., San Jose, CA
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>Boeing gets a very good idea about whether or not a
>shear pin is likely to work by a simple algorithm:
>	1. Make 100 pins in the same manufacturing run.
>	2. Pull 10 of these pins at random and test them.
>	   This, of course, destroys the pins.
>	3. If any of the 10 fails, destroy the other 90.
>	   Otherwise, use them.
****

Do you really expect GM to test air bags in the same manner?

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		Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calf.)
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