Air bag maker Takata announces largest auto recall ever: 34 million - FOX31 Denver
NEW YORK — Takata is nearly doubling the size of its already massive recall for faulty air bags, making it the largest auto recall in history. The company has already recalled air bags used in about 18 million vehicles for the problem. The recall is one of the largest consumer product recalls ever. But Takata has previously resisted demands by regulators to get all the affected air bags off the road. The air bags have been known to explode and send shrapnel into the face and body of both the driver and front seat passenger. Most of the fatalities and most of the recalled cars were made by Honda. Check your car But dozens of different models are affected, most of which were built between 2000 and 2011. Consumers can check to see if their car is included in the recall by going to a special website created by the National Highway Traffic... It’s not yet known what is causing the air bags to explode, admitted Mark Rosekind, the administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Rosekind could not even definitively say whether the air bags being installed in the recall cars are totally safe. Takata had previously insisted that the air bag problems were limited to cars in regions with very humid weather, and it sought to limit. Source: kdvr.com
