Five million cars nationwide have unrepaired Takata airbags that could be deadly for the driver or passengers if they go off. Metal shards can be sent flying through the car, and dozens of deaths and ...

Last November, Takata finally agreed to stop using ammonium nitrate in airbag inflators by 2018. In fact, the company went a step further and promised to declare that all of its devices using that ...

Takata airbags are some of the deadliest safety devices ever created and they’re back in the news as Volkswagen is recalling 114,478 vehicles. All are equipped with Takata driver’s side front airbag ...

More than 23 million Takata air bag inflators have been recalled since May, but letters sent by regulators last week suggest that recall could grow even larger. Seven additional companies, including ...

Ian Wright joined CarBuzz as an automotive journalist and photographer in 2018. His career started with specialist publications, covering everything from Harley-Davidson to Ferrari. Before writing for ...

It's the biggest auto recall in U-S history: nearly 50,000,000 Takata airbags so far, with roughly 20,000,000 more still to come -- that were installed in cars, trucks and S-U-V's, from 19 different ...

TOKYO (AP) — Toyota vowed to help pinpoint the cause of a defect in air bags used in more than 50 million vehicles worldwide, saying the auto industry risks losing the trust of car buyers if the ...

Defective Takata inflators can explode in a crash and shower drivers and passengers with hot shrapnel. At least 20 people have been killed worldwide, and more than 180 injured. The problem led Takata ...

On and on and on the Takata airbag recall goes. Where it stops, nobody knows--but according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, things may get much, much worse before they get ...

DETROIT (AP) — Scientists hired by the auto industry have determined that multiple factors including moisture and high humidity can cause some Takata airbags to inflate with too much force and hurl ...