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Title    Takata Airbag Recalls Widen To Potentially Affect Other Types Of Airbag
Date    Friday November 08 2019, @11:14AM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the in-your-face dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/11/08/053255

upstart writes:

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Takata Airbag Recalls Widen To Potentially Affect Other Types Of Airbag

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 continues to rise.  Against this backdrop, further recalls have been announced affecting another type of Takata airbag.

The recall affects BMW 3 Series vehicles, produced between 1997 and 2000. Notably, it appears these cars may have been built before Takata’s fateful decision to produce airbag inflators using ammonium nitrate propellants, known for their instability. Instead, these vehicles likely used Takata’s proprietary tetrazole propellant, or Non-Azide Driver Inflators (NADI). These were developed in the 1990s, and considered a great engineering feat at the time. They were eventually phased out around 2001 for cost reasons, leading to the scandal that rolls on to this day.


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Links

  1. "upstart" - https://soylentnews.org/~upstart/
  2. "Takata Airbag Recalls Widen To Potentially Affect Other Types Of Airbag" - https://hackaday.com/2019/11/07/takata-airbag-recalls-widen-to-potentially-affect-other-types-of-airbag/
  3. "further recalls have been announced affecting another type of Takata airbag." - https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/urgent-new-recall-for-bmw-vehicles-containing-faulty-takata-airbags
  4. "Takata’s fateful decision to produce airbag inflators using ammonium nitrate propellants" - https://hackaday.com/2019/06/10/takatas-deadly-airbags-an-engineering-omnishambles/
  5. "and considered a great engineering feat at the time." - https://www.autonews.com/article/19980223/ANA/802230779/slow-starter-takata-s-non-azide-airbag-inflator-took-a-while-to-catch-on
  6. "phased out around 2001 for cost reasons" - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-06-02/sixty-million-car-bombs-inside-takata-s-air-bag-crisis
  7. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=37349

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