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- Takata Airbags are Still Killing People a Decade Later
Nearly ten years have elapsed since one of the largest recalls in U.S. manufacturing history was initiated. In that time, 22 fatalities and over 400 injuries have occurred. And yet, Takata airbags are still killing motorists. We last wrote about the Takata airbag recall in the spring of 2020 when 37...
- 370,000 Volkswagens Recalled Over Takata Airbags
It’s been quite some time since we last posted about the Takata airbag recall that has rocked the auto industry for years on end. What initially started with a small post about a recall of 3 million Honda vehicles in 2014 evolved over the next five years into a series that tracked one of the large...
- Takata Airbags Not Being Replaced Fast Enough
What started with just over 10 million vehicles from a few manufacturers would expand over the next four years to involve over 100 million vehicles from 19 separate automakers. Of those, the United States would see 69 million recalls on its own as faulty Takata airbags have killed more than 20 peopl...
- Evidence Indicates Automakers Were Aware of Takata Airbag Failures
The script has been the same since the crisis began. Automakers, the victims in the tale, had been unknowingly installing faulty Takata airbags into their vehicles for years and putting millions of lives at risk in the process. They would assume their role quickly and convincingly while the ire of l...
- Pressure Stays on Takata as New Deadlines Set
Any hope that disgraced airbag manufacturer Takata might have had of an easing of pressure by lawmakers and regulators to see its airbag recall through evaporated recently when deadlines to complete the monumental task were actually moved up. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration i...
- At Least One Airbag Rupture Went Unreported by Takata
As the Takata airbag scandal started picking up steam, at least one explosion event went unreported by the manufacturing giant. It occurred in Switzerland in 2003 and, according to Takata’s own records, was never reported to the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The cla...
- Evidence Indicates Takata Manipulated Airbag Test Data
“We have found examples of what I would call ‘selective editing,’ where they have left out results not because they were bad results, but because the results that remained were better. We found evidence that the report that went to Honda was a shorter version of the original version, and it wa...
- Takata CEO to Resign
“I don’t intend to hold on to my position. Once I’ve delivered this company to a place where it’s not at risk of faltering, I want to pass the baton.” With those words, Shigehisa Takada announced his intent to resign as CEO of embattled airbag manufacturer Takata. The resignation should co...
- Takata Airbags Continue Killing Drivers
It started out large enough to be noticed, but not so large that it could be considered unmanageable. What it became, however, was not only the largest recall in the history of the automotive industry, but the largest product recall in consumer history. The first mention of the Takata airbag recall ...
- Airbag Manufacturer Takata Could Face up to $200 Million in Fines
It’s every driver’s worst nightmare: those microseconds when your brain has done the math and you know you’re about to have a bad collision. From the moment of first impact, the computers in modern cars are doing math of their own. Calculating the force of the impact against other environmenta...
