Following on from the last MoT thread the latest MoT statistics are available from DVSA for them wot might be interested. Data is up to 31 December 2021.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistic ... at-britain
For classes 1 to 7 (except 6) some 9.1 million tests were carried out, with an overall fail rate of 30% - 760 thousand (roughly 8%) were Dangerous fails. Note that this is with an MoT testing regime of every 12 months, so imagine how bad it will get if we only test every two years ...
MM
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Re: MOT health check
MonsterMork wrote:Following on from the last MoT thread the latest MoT statistics are available from DVSA for them wot might be interested. Data is up to 31 December 2021.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistic ... at-britain
For classes 1 to 7 (except 6) some 9.1 million tests were carried out, with an overall fail rate of 30% - 760 thousand (roughly 8%) were Dangerous fails. Note that this is with an MoT testing regime of every 12 months, so imagine how bad it will get if we only test every two years ...
MM
I strongly dislike this tendency humans have to need to categorise safety issues as binary i.e. "safe" or "dangerous".
Given 8% of MoT failures were 'dangerous' fails in 2021, might we surmise the remaining 92% of fails were for cars still 'safe' to drive?
In reality it is a continuously graduated scale. I'd hold that say, brakes that don't work are far more dangerous than say, a set of tyres with 1.5mm depth of tread. We get the same in my own field. A boiler working well with a pinhole in a flue is classed as equally lethal as one pouring out carbon monoxide into a bedroom.
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DrFfybes wrote:
Oh, erm, yes, Cars and driving. 760k dangerous cars on the road. And that's without a driver in them.
Paul
Ah yes the old joke, "What's the most dangerous nut in a car...?"
(Although it works better when discussing bicycle maintenance. "What's the most dangerous nut on a bicycle? Yes, the one riding it...)
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