Takata Corp has told U.S. safety regulators it will no longer use a volatile chemical in its airbag inflators. The Japanese supplier is at the center of a global recall of tens of millions of cars for potentially deadly airbag …
The U.S. auto safety watchdog, long criticized as toothless and slow, is showing both bark and bite under its new boss – a testimony to his credentials as a safety expert and a hardening of the administration’s policy after a …
Takata Corp. has reached an agreement with U.S. regulators who accused the company of failing to cooperate with an investigation into faulty airbags linked to six deaths and the recalls of about 28 million cars worldwide, according to people familiar …
Hundreds of crashes involving defective cars are going unreported each year because under U.S. safety rules automakers aren’t required to report suspicious accidents for models more than 10 years old. That’s worrisome, safety advocates say, because the average age of …
Four plaintiffs’ lawyers, including high-profile attorney David Boies, were appointed by a federal judge on Tuesday to lead civil litigation against Takata Corp and several car manufacturers for injuries caused by allegedly faulty airbags. U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno, who …
Honda Motor Co., the carmaker at the center of an airbag safety crisis, is spending millions of dollars on its first U.S. advertising campaign linked to a recall. The company will urge owners to immediately replace potentially lethal airbags made …
President Barack Obama asked Congress to sign off on tens of millions more dollars on Monday to bolster a beleaguered auto-safety agency that has been criticized for responding too slowly to deadly vehicle defects. The president’s proposal for the 2016 …
The family of a Texas man who died in a minor traffic accident is alleging in a lawsuit that their loved one is the latest person to be killed by shrapnel shooting out of exploding airbags made by Takata Corp. …
Mark Rosekind, the U.S. government’s new auto safety chief, knew all along that the agency he was taking over lacked resources and staff to do its job properly. But after a week on the job, Rosekind says he discovered the …
BMW has agreed to demands from the government to replace driver’s-side airbags across the entire U.S. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been pushing companies to recall older cars with airbag inflators made by Takata Corp. They can explode …