Takata is launching a huge expansion of its inflator recall in the US to cover an estimated 33.8 million vehicles. UPDATE: NHTSA has officially announced the expansion of the Takata airbag ...

Takata is pushing hard to increase its global production of replacement airbag inflators to 900,000 units, while automakers begin looking elsewhere. Takata is scrambling to fill the massive ...

Nissan is urging the owners of about 84,000 older vehicles to stop driving them because their Takata air bag inflators have an increased risk of exploding in a crash and hurling dangerous metal ...

The faulty airbag inflators, PSDI-5, manufactured by Japanese automotive parts company Takata Corp, have become part of the largest, most complex recall process in auto history.

The global Takata airbag recall campaign continues over a decade after it started, with Toyota, Mitsubishi and Honda today ...

DETROIT--General Motors is recalling nearly 900 vehicles in the U.S. and Canada with Takata air bag inflators that could explode and hurl shrapnel in a crash. The recall covers certain Chevrolet ...

Some of the airbags contained faulty inflators which expanded with too much force, spraying metal shrapnel. US-based Key Safety Systems (KSS) has bought all of Takata's assets, apart from those ...

GM recalls nearly 900 vehicles with Takata air bag inflators, blames manufacturing problem August 2, 2023 U.S. reports another Takata air bag death, bringing toll to 33 ...

In May 2023, BMW issued a "Do Not Drive" warning to another 90,000 vehicles with Takata airbags. The airbags "have an extremely high probability of failure during a crash. If the inflators rupture ...

Ford is the fourth automaker to stop using Takata airbag inflators in future vehicles, joining Honda, Toyota and Nissan. Currently the other two from the Detroit Big Three have not made ...

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 ...

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 ...