Automakers add millions more cars to Takata air bag recalls - USA TODAY

Automakers add millions more cars to Takata air bag recalls Automakers were adding millions of vehicles to their official lists of vehicles recalled because of potentially dangerous Takata airbag inflators. Fiat said it will add another 1. 4 million globally. ly/1HytSpM Automakers were adding millions of cars Thursday to their official lists of models recalled because of potentially dangerous Takata airbag inflators. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said it will add another 1. 4 million vehicles globally. Eleven automakers in the U. S. have been caught in the Takata air bag recalls, and it's likely more will add recall details as they figure them out. The action came as a followup to last week's announcement by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that it was nearly doubling the number of vehicles included in the Takata recall to 33. 8 million. Air bags made by Japan's Takata are deemed dangerous because their inflators can explode when they deploy in a crash, sending shards of metal or plastic at drivers or passengers. Honda said that even though it knows the models involved and grand totals, it is now trying find out whether they may have been registered in any of the states considered to have high humidity that could make the air bags deploy in a more... It will take "several weeks" to determine a more specific list, Honda said. Source: www.usatoday.com