Long time Hackaday readers will probably recognize where this is going as we’ve covered it before; at its centre are faulty airbag charges from Takata, and the result has been one of the largest ...

and several vehicles still have Do Not Drive warnings in effect owing to their factory-installed Takata airbags. That airbags dominate the statistics for Asian automakers may have more to do with the ...

The statistics are harrowing ... and other road users. Ten years on, the Takata airbag recall is a stark reminder of the catastrophic consequences when safety systems fail. It’s also a call ...

NHTSA has revised its estimates for the number of vehicles being driven with faulty Takata airbags, reducing it to 19.2 million vehicles and 23.4 million inflators. That figure is down from 34M ...

Takata has recalled over 16 million vehicles over the past few years due to airbag issues, Reuters reports, with five deaths attributed to faulty inflators that can spew shrapnel upon deployment. Tags ...

The Takata airbag case has become the largest product recall in history, caused over 20 deaths, and cost many billions of dollars. Replacement efforts are still ongoing, and sadly, the body count ...

According to the NHTSA's latest data, 69 percent of recalled Takata air bag have been repaired. To date, NHTSA says 27 people in the U.S. have been killed by a defective Takata air bag that exploded.

According to the DMV, one in five registered vehicles in New York State has an open, unfixed recall. This includes tens of ...

Its airbag inflators have been linked to at least 16 deaths and 180 injuries worldwide. Takata has has admitted to having either already recalled or expecting to recall about 125 million vehicles ...

Mark Lillie, who left the Japanese auto supplier in 1999, says he warned Takata against using ammonium nitrate to inflate its airbags because it could result in complete airbag failure.

The family of Huma Hanif filed a lawsuit alleging her 2002 Honda Civic had a faulty Takata airbag system when she rear-ended another car on FM 762 at Gonyo Road on March 31. "It is just hard to ...

The massive recall for faulty airbags made by Japanese automotive supplier Takata could get a lot bigger. In total, 29 million airbag inflators have been recalled so far, but an additional 70 to ...