Don’t they ever learn?
And an additional 35-40 million airbags.
Oh, shit. This is getting to be a pain in the ass. Seems like every week I have to check again to see if my car’s number has come up yet. This is getting tiresome.
Actually — Is this airbag fiasco really such a fiasco?
The statistics I’ve occasionally seen being kicked about seem to suggest that only a miniscule few number of Bad Outcomes have actually happened. True, for the victims, that’s as bad as it gets. But for the rest of us, what is the risk? How risk averse do we need to be? Is this right up there with the chances of dying in an airplane crash, or getting struck by lightning?
Yes it is that bad. You cannot predict when a particular airbag is going to be called to deploy, and if it’s an ammonium-nitrate-fueled Takata inflators, Takata has no idea if it will deploy as designed or deploy too energetically and blow the canister apart. Therefore they are all suspect at this point and need to be replaced.
The link in the OP is about a recall over 20 years ago of 8 million Takata seatbelt-equipped cars. I think he’s asking why manufacturers kept buying safety equipment from Takata.
Well, obviously Takata learned their lesson 20 years ago and cleaned their act up. Oh, wait…
This is getting serious. I’m starting to think I may just want to avoid having a serious car accident altogether.