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The deadly Takata airbags have caused over 20 million cars to be recalled. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has just reported that Takata has told auto-manufactures that even newer model vehicles may also be affected. According to federal safety regulators, the age of the airbags was believed to be one of the main contributing factors that were making them explode. The recall mainly affected model cars that were manufactured in 2008...

It has been a few weeks since we discussed the massive Takata airbag recall in this blog. Since 2013, about 29 million vehicles with defective airbag inflators have been recalled in the U.S. alone, after at least 10 people have been killed and many more injured. This is already the largest automotive recall in the country’s history. But TIME predicts that as many as 90 million more vehicles will eventually need to be recalled to replace more of the airbags’...