Ok so this is a weird one. Basically as someone else said in another thread, the company that made the airbag inflators made a lot of them for a lot of automakers for a long time.

Prior to other companies being able to produce the inflators for permanent replacement, you had a handful of options for your car until autoliv and other companies got the necessary inflators

-Dont drive the car, leaving it either at home or on a dealer's lot

-drive the car on your own at your own risk(you could still file a suit if injured, the waiver merely acknowledged the risks were explained to you)

-be put in a rental for an unknown period of time(Honda exhausted enterprise's rental inventory at one point)

-put a new version of the defective airbag to reset the failure timer(heat, time and humidity being the most responsible for airbag failure)

-some folks went as far to disconnect the inflator entirely

It resulted in weird situations where honda dealers had vehicle owners swear with sugar on top that if they drove a car because the other options were exhausted or they couldn't be without their car, and they had passengers, they'd endeavor to put the passenger in the back seat which very likely ensured maybe a little more protection

I worked in the field for Honda on this kind of stuff, it was a very interesting few years

Edit: Love your username, that is a fantastic book