The federal government has been overestimating the number of vehicles affected by the Takata airbag inflator recalls by about 40 percent. In actuality—and within a few hundred thousand of our own rolling total, partially sourced from the very agency which is now correcting its figure—the number of affected cars now being cited by NHTSA is 19.2 million.
Up until recently, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had been reporting 32 million vehicles from 11 automakers. Current estimates now indicate 23.4 million faulty inflators—the defective, shrapnel-shooting airbag parts, not individual vehicles—within the U.S. alone. NHTSA said that about four million cars have both faulty driver and passenger side inflators, while the same total of vehicles have been repaired with new replacement inflators.
NHTSA said it wants car owners with Takata airbags that have the highest failure risk to receive the first batches of replacement parts and will “hold an event in the fall to allow public discussion of these efforts.” The agency is also investigating a side-curtain airbag rupture from another Takata airbag not related to the original recalls and two more recent frontal airbag ruptures in vehicles equipped with non-Takata inflators. Two senators have also called on Takata to recall every airbag it has made with ammonium nitrate propellant.
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